Comments for Potato I have

Comment on Words and the widgetification of stuff by antoine

antoine — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:58:53 +0000

no comment for quite a while

Comment on Just three stories by Sanjay M

Sanjay M — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:29:28 +0000

Apart from the morbidity Dave - I found quite a bit to learn as well. I loved that speech when I’d come across it in 2005. Good to come across the link again, I’m going to read another time, this time, along with my wife :) Usually we re-read something after a gap, it makes a lot more sense… 8)

Comment on Words and the widgetification of stuff by Sanjay M

Sanjay M — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:21:51 +0000

Thanks dave for having introduced me to gtd! In case you haven’t seen this already… gtdinbox

Comment on Just three stories by Dave

Dave — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:09:26 +0000

Hi Kalyan, thanks for making the connection to Kawasaki, I like his three points, and enjoyed a quick scan of his blog as well.

Comment on Just three stories by Kalyan

Kalyan — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:54:40 +0000

I liked this one too. I’m watching a lot of youtube/google videos these days! guy kawasaki has one for startups and google tech talks.

Comment on A consummate listener by Dave

Dave — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:58:51 +0000

Yes, the books books page was sadly abandoned before it got going; thanks for letting me know about the busted link. Books books is reserved for non-technical stuff I’ve finished, so can’t put CT in there (yet).

Comment on A consummate listener by Sanjay M

Sanjay M — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:23:51 +0000

Remembered this site when I came across a quote today… “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.” - Douglas Adams ;-) Btw you could probably add this to your books books page, [and fyi the link to a blog entry (March 2005) in your books page isn’t working] Cheers,Sanjay

Comment on Jazz at YouTube by Dave

Dave — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:39:48 +0000

Fixed the links — thanks Sanjay!

Taylor’s expression for me, when he drops his head, was “they didn’t get it … again!” But who knows. Other interpretations?

Comment on Jazz at YouTube by Sanjay M

Sanjay M — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:01:56 +0000

My interest in Jazz increased after watching Terminal (Tom Hanks) :) The link above dosen’t seem to work (for Coltraine’s Quartet). The expressions on the Cecil Taylor were pretty amazing… at the end of it, he seemed to be saying… “there, I made my point” :)

There’s another guy Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (Indian classical) who plays similarly… some notes)

Comment on Open data, standard formats by a common man ಸಂಜಯ » Blog Archive » some productivity tools…

a common man ಸಂಜಯ » Blog Archive » some productivity tools… — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:31:41 +0000

[…] For trying to get organised, I’ve tried using Microsoft OneNote but somehow though it looked pretty cool at first, it got too messy eventually. The main advantage of OneNote would’ve been integration with the other Office products - so I’d assumed - and this was another let down (integration was very loose). Another thing is about formats. Dave as several other veterans have done earlier, reminded me of open standards - in this case, file formats. Everything in Onenote is in proprietary .one files. The biggest surprising limitation I’ve found with one note is that it dosen’t support tables. There’s a workaround but its only a poor substitute for a table. […]

Comment on Video search by Chris

Chris — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:24:24 +0000

Metadata is going to be an important component of video search for the forseeable future. Large media companies are waking up to this fact, though many continue to struggle with how to produce appropriate medatadata:

from a recent AP article …

“Just as Internet search engines such as AltaVista raced to index text on the Web in the mid-1990s, Google and Yahoo [and Searchforvideo.com] are now vying to create more comprehensive video search tools that make clips easily accessible through keywords.

That’s no small task, since each clip must be classified with right keywords for it to be found. Text searches scan the words of a document, while video searches must rely on the words attached to the file describing its contents. Executives say this strategy is one of the most important jobs for any company, large or small, wanting to get video on the Web.

“At the moment we’re putting most of our focus and energy into optimizing the search engines, because that’s 90 per cent of the way people find content,” said Kris Faibish, CTV’s vice-president of digital media.

“[The] strategies are about making sure that when Google crawls your site looking for keywords, you’ve set up your site properly and the keywords are there.”

Much of the video material making its way onto the Web isn’t being indexed properly, said Andy Renieris, manager of Yahoo Canada’s Web search products.

Comment on Personal wiki and multiple desktops by Dave

Dave — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:48:19 +0000

Barry,

I’m darn sorry and not a little embarrassed about missing your comment, I let this blog drop a few months and have just moderated out a digital ton of comment spam. I need to move up to a better spam solution.

And what a comment to miss! TW is fascinating, I thought I’d just take a quick peek and I’m hooked. Very creative wiki approach, the ajaxy feel is great, moving from page-centric to multiple open tiddlers is great, and text on disk is a beautiful thing. “Disconnected” is a mode I’m appreciating in more and more contexts, and this does it simply. Edit functionality lifted when viewing over HTTP. This is clever stuff, I’m glad you pointed me to it.

The GTD variant is clever as well, a nice application of TW. I went deep into GTD last year, I’ve evolved out a mostly pure text + file system implementation that works really well with my MultipleDesktop stuff. TW/GTDTW is not as svn-friendly as I’d like (maybe split out the tiddler storeArea to a separate file?), and I’m enjoying my versioned and key-free existence, but hmm…

Comment on Personal wiki and multiple desktops by Barry

Barry — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:03:51 +0000

Hi Dave

Have you seen this? http://tiddlywiki.com/ It is a wiki without a server… so no need for subversion to synchronise your various servers… Just put the file on a USB drive..

“Welcome to TiddlyWiki, an experimental MicroContent WikiWikiWeb built by JeremyRuston. It’s written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any ServerSide logic. It allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents that can be posted to any WebServer, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive to make a WikiOnAStick. This is revision 1.2.39 of TiddlyWiki, and is published under an OpenSourceLicense.”

I’m about to investigate this variant: http://shared.snapgrid.com/gtd_tiddlywiki.html

Cheers
Barry

Comment on Housing calculations by Dave

Dave — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:58:37 +0000

Thanks for the link, it added a lot of good concrete detail for me, and was a pretty balanced treatment. My little rent/buy decisions are loaded with opportunity cost, but this loan nonsense means real pain and suffering. So, the industry can argue that it’s just another tool to manage your cashflow, and it looks great for a couple of scenarios, but what fraction of the borrowers are using this to save money on the side, it’s got to be low:

But [a CAR economist] argues that the loans are just the latest advance in the mortgage market. Little outright speculation is occurring, she said. The popularity of the loans reflects the fact that they allow people to get into homes they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford.

And if they’re not saving, how many of the >60% of these buyers are going to absorb a payment bump realistically between 20-70% in a few years? Certainly our line of work is not promising that kind of income growth.

You’re absolutely right, it’s a good time to be watching on the sidelines, just don’t forget to pack a strong stomach.

Comment on Housing calculations by ns

ns — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:18:05 +0000

The many (>60% in the Bay Area, cf. this article in the Comical) home buyers who have financed their recent purchases using interest-only loans are even more dependent on big capital gains, since there’s no other way to pay the loans back (excepting those well-heeled investors who can just pay out of pocket). The large participation of these leveraged-but-not-rich buyers should make the coming bust unlike any other in recent American memory. Normally, home owners refuse to sell during real estate downturns, and the rate of transactions is greatly reduced, slowing the decline; but this time, there will be a large number of distressed sellers who have no choice but to sell immediately. Keep your $ and your plane tickets ready, Freys.