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Well, I have to confess that writing a proper blog post a day has been more challenging than I anticipated. Which is why today’s “proper blog post” is a Friday Random 10. iTunes is on shuffle; let’s see what happens. Bill Cosby, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” Miranda Sex Garden, “Exit Music (For A [...]

Welcome to the New World Order, Where Our Gadgets Rule Us | Xconomy Just saw this post from Howard Anderson: "I refuse to live in a world where my computer appliances are now smarter and more powerful than I am." (tags: humor ipad) Tales From the Command Line: textutil Useful tour through the textutil utility, [...]

I work with iPhone users and Android users. I see no end of technology demos from both. It’s clear both phones are wonderful devices capable of doing amazing things. So why do iPhone reviews make it sound like the device can walk on water, while a lot of Android reviews sound like this? Unfortunately, these [...]

Joho the Blog » Music industry rents a photogenic posse Stock photos! What can’t they do? (tags: drm) La Cascia’s Found: one great Italian deli in Burlington, MA. (tags: food) Showing and hiding content with pure CSS3 – Opera Developer Community An intriguing but frustratingly unusable CSS3 example for showing and hiding content using only [...]

I’m most of the way through listening to Jane Siberry’s collected works, which she has made available for free download on a “pay it forward” basis. It’s a rare opportunity to listen to an artist’s evolution over a short period of time. I had only ever heard, really, Siberry’s 1993 album When I Was a [...]

Usability: Why Did We Move The Search Box? « Wikimedia Technical Blog The article sums up the total of user research. The comments are a microcosm of user resentment. A good capsule of how even good UI changes (and the movement of the search box in Wikipedia is a good change) engender resentment. (tags: wikipedia [...]

There are certain records, certain tracks, that instantly take you back to where you were when you heard them for the very first time. John Coltrane’s “Lush Life” (the first version he recorded, the 1958 version with Red Garland, Donald Byrd, Paul Chambers, and Louis Hayes) is one of those albums, and one of those [...]

HubArts.com: James Levine cancels all Tanglewood appearances On the plus side, I’ve never sung with Michael Tilson Thomas before. (tags: tfc bso) Are Companies Actually Using Secure Development Life Cycles? In the IEEE’s Computer magazine, a good discussion of secure development lifecycles. (tags: security)

We’ve been working on hiring a product manager here at Veracode, and it’s gotten me thinking about technical literacy. The one thing you don’t want in a product manager is someone who thinks he can write the code better than his/her developers. That sets up a major problem with boundaries–you want the product manager to [...]

Virginia Glee Club at Vienna Presbyterian Church A full half-hour recording of the Glee Club’s performance in Northern Virginia from 2008. (tags: virginiagleeclub audio free)

In other musical news, the first ten seconds of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms makes a pretty good ringtone: Recording courtesy the Internet Archive, who had a copy of a 1931 78RPM recording of the symphony conducted by Stravinsky the year after it premiered. I’ll be singing with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Orchestra [...]

I don’t plan to make a habit of this, but I had to post Sage Francis’s “The Best of Times” today because it woke me up and made me think this morning. It’s a richly funny and sad look at growing up. Plus! The rhymes are not wack, as the kids would have said when [...]

Happy blogaversary to me! This year, I’m not going to do a year in review like I did in past years. I’m going to look ahead. Nine years ago today, I was an intern at Microsoft, on the other side of the country from my wife and family, confused about my work, my direction, and [...]

How To Hire A 14th-Level Half-Elf PM | Forrester Blogs I dig this recruiting strategy. If only I could work up the nerve to break out the d20 in the next PM interview. (tags: productmanagement interviews management) YouCastr – A Post-Mortem – The Ambitious Life Honest, occasionally painful, and insightful look at the failure of [...]

A List Apart: Articles: Web Fonts at the Crossing A summary of recent developments in web font technologies. (tags: fonts typography css webdesign) Panic Blog » Coda Notes: a Safari Extension A clean HTML5+JS+CSS way to annotate websites, as a Safari plugin. (tags: safari extension html5 css apple) Slashdot News Story | The End of [...]