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Found my iPhone – and me

By James ⋅ June 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Upgraded to new 3.0 software, setup MobileMe, stepped outside the house, and anyone with the password to my MobileMe account can now find my phone (or me most likely) to within a few feet. Here’s a screen capture of the MobileMe “Find my iPhone” page:

120HP is all you want on marble

By James ⋅ June 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

YouTube – Jeremy’s Extreme Ford Fiesta road test The fun starts around 4 mins in.

Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein

By James ⋅ May 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein: ” The key to how any protein works is its three-dimensional shape, determined by all the ways its atoms interact. Trying to push two atoms closer when they want to repel is like holding magnets together when they’re oriented the wrong way. You can force them, but nature [...]

New Photos From Flight 1549 – Raising the Jet from the Hudson

By James ⋅ May 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The Unlikely Events of a Water Landing: New Photos From Flight 1549: ” (Via Wired News.)

Obama plans high-speed rail in US

By James ⋅ April 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

If you believe that Federal stimulus spending is a good tool to help kickstart our ailing economy, what better way than with a high-speed rail infrastructure project? High speed rail has been talked about for over a generation as a “Good Thing”, but the necessary political and financial conditions have never aligned as well as [...]

A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids

By James ⋅ March 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Web layout focusing on cutting edge CSS. A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids Fluid Grids by ETHAN MARCOTTE Early last year, I worked on the redesign of a rather content-heavy website. Design requirements were fairly light: the client asked us to keep the organization’s existing logo and to improve the dense typography and increase legibility. [...]

The Army, the Web, and the Case for Intentional Emergence

By James ⋅ February 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Posted in total. Shows there are some bright and effective folks doing good work in even the most rigid of hierarchies: The Army, the Web, and the Case for Intentional Emergence: “ Lt. Gen. Sorenson, Army CIO, at Web 2.0 Summit I didn’t make it to the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco in November [...]

How To Build An Igloo

By James ⋅ February 10, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

In case you ever wanted to know:

Managing To-Dos While Remaining Focused On Professional Growth

By James ⋅ February 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

From Michael Lopp: The curse of any effective task management system is that you get really good at capturing, prioritizing, and executing tasks. To the point that you start to believe that merely completing a task is helping your career. After a solid decade of rampant task management, I realized I needed to augment tasks [...]

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