I had a really sticky problem. I’m building a web 2.0 application that aggregates data from disparate social media sites. The good news is that MANY sites have really great, REST API’s while many do not. My nemesis was Google Blog Search. Sorry Charlie, no API!
What to to?
I’ve burned [...]
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This is a bit of an experiement. I wanted to create a series of “2 Minute Tips” - video screen casts that show how to do something specific in a relatively short amount of time.
This week, I’m doing a screen cast of setting [...]
You can’t escape it. Each morning when I slide the paper out of it’s plastic baggie or turn on CNN, there it is: the constant drumbeat of bad news. It rains down on us unmercifully like a torrent. I catch my optimism waning more than I’d [...]
The US plan for bailing out the US automakers is a horrible idea. This is yet another case of seemingly well-intentioned legislation, designed to dupe the American public into thinking that the lawmakers “care” about the US economy and is a weak attempt at underlining the idea that the “Big [...]
My last day in Beijing started pretty much as all the others had: awake early, a quick blog entry, a Skype call back home, but this day was different, I was heading home. In addition to the flurry of normal things to get done in order [...]
Dimensions of Marketing in China
The adventure here in China continues at a break-neck pace, although you can feel a sense of winding down. Today we had a piece on marketing in China delivered by Jeongwen Chaing, a professor [...]
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Getting to the Great Wall of China
It’s hard to believe we’ve been here for almost a week. The schedule has been fast paced to put it mildly. On Tuesday afternoon we [...]
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Day #3
It’s day #3 and I’m considering a lifetime ban on Chinese food. It’s actually not that bad, I [...]
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Greetings from Beijing on Day #2, the first real working day of our trip. It’s about 5:30 a.m. here as I blog. [...]
Today, awake at 4:15am. Jana and I opt for the luxury of 1 smack of the snooze button. The five minutes feels like 23 seconds. We gather our strength and we’re off! The next 45 minutes is a unhurried yet determine exercise in getting ready to travel 1/2 around the [...]
It’s Thursday and I’m blasting off to China tomorrow. I haven’t traveled overseas since the mid-90’s so this is going to be interesting. Reports are trickling in from classmates already in country. Fiddler reports being hustled by a Chinese cabbie for taxi fare twice the reported going rate. That sucks. [...]
Two days out and I’m already getting emails from classmates that are either getting ready to head to China or are in the process. Sixteen months ago when we started this program, China was just a far-off concept. Intuitively you knew the departure date for China would show up, but [...]
It’s been a week. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know that the US economy has seen better times. You have to wonder how bad things are. As in any crisis, there are mixed accounts. There’s a fantastic list of potential calamities in a [...]
I’ve been following the Thirty-day Challenge with a lot of enthusiasm. I really have to hand it to Ed, GuruBob and crew, they’ve really packed a lot of information into a very useful and concise package. There’s huge value there! Kudos to you all.
I’m impressed too [...]
I’ve got a friend of mine who I always seem to be on the other side of the debate with. His position is that the current financial meltdown is the result of a loss of transparency in the market. There are those that point to SIVs and other off-balance sheet [...]
The ability for economics to eloquently and succinctly describe complex social interaction continues to amaze me. The Nash theorem describes a situation whereby the greatest economic benefit for society comes when all participates are aware of each other strategy and act accordingly and consistently. The minute individuals start acting [...]
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[...]It strikes you wandering around an airport that there are silent stories all around. Most of these stories are the dreams and aspirations of men who now are just a bit past their prime but fell in love with [...]
One of the things I miss about living in Virginia Beach are the rich landscapes that I managed to discover and shoot over the years. Central Virginia, I’m sure has such opportunities, but I have not as yet discovered them. Instead I’ve turned [...]
Everybody has seen the Geico caveman commercials. They’re pretty darned entertaining IMHO and I have to admit they’re a guilty pleasure of mine. In particular I like the one of the cave dude cruising down the people mover at the airport. You gotta love the badminton racket he’s got [...]
I just stumbled upon an interesting technology, which I thought was pretty cool. The product is called “LiveLook”. What is really interesting about this application is that it’s entirely web based and facilitates completely transparent desktop sharing between two disparate machines. The sharing is HTTP based via a common [...]
I try to attend the Richmond Still Water Zen Center weekly. It’s a wonderful group of Zen practitioners in the lineage of Zen Master Seung Sahn. After our meditation and chanting last week, our teacher gave a Dharma talk and posed an interesting question. A question that I [...]
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First Post! I’ve been very hesitant to get into this blogsphere thing, but I’ve recently decided that it’s high time to take the plunge. There have been many changes to my life in the past few months [...]
