Twitter Updates
- RT @benswasey: Boston is the 7th-most expensive city *in the world* for #housing, according to this Bloomberg analysis: https://t.co/crmPgz… 1 week ago
- RT @gedaliap: https://t.co/q7tHWkAIgK 2 weeks ago
- RT @DSAArchaeology: #ArchaeologicalOddities The 1974 passport for Ramses II. His mummy was set to travel to France for a museum exhibition… 2 weeks ago
- RT @ftrain: #archivepix (saved 9 May 2012) https://t.co/jIL6IyZYu6 2 weeks ago
- RT @YAppelbaum: “Well, yes. Qualcomm is accusing Apple of Intel collusion, but that’s not what they meant by it…" twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/s… 3 weeks ago
What I’m Reading
Tags
- .NET
- advertising
- airplay
- akamai
- apple
- asp.net
- awk
- bluetooth
- books
- browser
- customer service
- cygwin
- debugging
- DNS
- e-commerce
- excel
- experiments
- family
- fitness
- formatting
- health
- home technology
- HTML
- html shortcuts
- iis
- iMovie
- iOS
- iPad
- iPhone
- ISP
- javascript
- jboss
- judaism
- lego
- legos
- localization
- location services
- marketing
- medical
- memcached
- methodology
- Microsoft
- mobile
- MS word
- net neutrality
- networking
- npr
- OSX
- OS X
- outlook
- parenting
- performance
- personal finance
- photography
- plumbing
- powershell
- privacy
- psychology
- routing
- security
- shabbat
- shortcuts
- social media
- sql
- sqlserver
- television
- tomcat
- toys
- tracking
- travel
- voip
- windows 7
- wireless
- Word
-
Recent Posts
- Shortcut: Simple rubber strips to make a phone easier to hold without the bulk of a case
- Shortcut: Overcome cell network congestion by dropping to 4G
- If you travel frequently, take a look at Arro app for taxis
- Am I really saving money as a cord cutter?
- Answered: What is the project at the Artesani Playground on Soldiers Field Road?
Archives
- April 2017
- September 2016
- June 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
RSS
Categories
Meta
Monthly Archives: February 2011
When parents sleep in separate bedrooms
For the last week, when my three year old daughter Ayelet has woken up in the morning, she has come into our bedroom to find that only her mother is there. Asking where Daddy is, she is told to go … Continue reading
Troubleshooting Akamai: How to geolocate an IP Address
Akamai provides enormous value by accelerating content delivery around the world. However, as I described a few months back, Akamai relies on the DNS server that processes the request to determine where to accelerate traffic. Large, global corporations often have complex … Continue reading
Performance: Alter a table’s clustered index in SQL Server while keeping the table online
Back in the old SQL Server 2000 days, creating an index was a major operation that would prevent queries and data modifications until it had completed. Unless the index could be created in a few seconds, any new indexes had … Continue reading
Join.me – free desktop sharing so easy, even my mom can do it
Okay, that’s a little unfair to my mom, since she is a relatively tech savvy person who sports an iPhone and uses a gmail account. But the point is, the people at Join.me (the same people behind LogMeIn) have done … Continue reading
Mourning the loss of my Italian coffee maker, but not for its coffee
It’s been four months since my Italian coffee maker died, and today I have finally come to the hard decision that it is time to move on and buy a new one. I’m not very particular about the coffee itself. … Continue reading
Egypt proves Malcolm Gladwell was wrong about social media… and right
In October 2010, Malcolm Gladwell published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted“. In the article, he rejects the idea that social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook will be agents … Continue reading
I’ve written over 1000 tweets in the last 15 months. How much time have I wasted?
I started experimenting with Twitter (and social networking in general) 15 months ago, and just this week, I sent my 1000th tweet. It seems like a good time to take a step back and ask whether this is a good … Continue reading
