Archive for March, 2007

Baked Pancake

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Made one of these this morning for breakfast. They’re pretty similar to a Dutch baby, slightly less eggy. The cooking method is simple but clever: you heat the butter in the skillet on the stove prior to putting it in the oven, so the pancake crisps a ...

IKEA will break you

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

I’m increasingly fascinated by the psychological effect of a visit to Ikea. Old friends of mine know that I’m hugely interested in Vegas casinos, not because I’m a huge gambler, but because of all the little psychological angles. The fact that you when you enter a hotel there isn’t a ...

Opportunities for entrepreneurs

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Re: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/sfearthquakes_o.html I’m starting a Web 2.0 company to implement “cd” in a browser. I’m going to call it Seedee (beta). When I flip it to Yahoo for $500 million, I’m going to go on a whiskey bender for six months and then sober up and hire forty people to implement Arrem (beta).

LiteSpeed kicks ass

Friday, March 16th, 2007

It used to always strike me as odd that people would bother using anything besides Apache for serving up web pages. It’s kind of a pain to configure, but it’s well understood, everybody uses it, it’s open source, and it works. Upon entering the Rails world, though, if you run ...