In The Chairman’s Letter in Berkshire Hathaway’s 2005 annual report, Warren Buffett makes several interesting points. One that stuck with me — probably due to the unique explanation and my “duh, that’s obvious” realization — is that, despite all of the technology and sophistication in investing today, investors are making less money as an [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Mar 30
Comment on PDFs and browsers hate each other by: Laurel
You can always make it open an external application instead of running the plugin. I think the browser and/or Acrobat Reader have a config setting for this, but the quick and dirty way is to delete the plugin.
Mar 29
PDFs and browsers hate each other
Why does Acrobat Reader crash or hang my browser 90% of the time? This has plagued me throughout time regardless of Windows version or browser.
Mar 28
New amp: Fender Blues Junior
I finally bought a new guitar amp: the Fender Blues Junior. The tone on this is so much better than my previous amp. Mmmm… tubes…
Mar 26
My guitars, need for a real amp
I am shopping for a new guitar amp and am seriously considering the Fender Blues Junior to replace my Peavey Audition Plus.
I play with two guitars:
A 1996 Fender Lone Star Strat. This is guitar is the standard American Strat with a couple of stock alterations: Texas Special single coil pickups in the neck [...]
Mar 26
Beta?
Why is it that some of the best web sites are still called beta? Flickr and Google come to mind. These two sites are better than 90% (a scientific measurement) of those called 1.0 or greater. Maybe it’s a Web 2.0 thing, but I find it humorous
Mar 24
Who is creepier
Who is creepier? Tom Emanski, the moustached leader of young, male basebal robots or The Video Professor who I suspect breaks into my condo at night, hunched over an office chair urging me to try his product?
Tom
Video Professor
Mar 22
Google Finance
I just learned about Google Finance and the first headline I see is “Microsoft to delay launch of Windows Vista.” Someone is crying conspiracy, but I just laugh.
Mar 21
Comment on Office environments by: joe
Someone at the meeting jokingly mentioned a totally modular environment, where we don’t have assigned desks. Here’s a case study explaining why those don’t work.
Mar 19
Comment on Office environments by: Jeff
Thanks for the comment, John.
It looks like I gave the wrong impression about the amount of time we spend discussing office space. It is minimal. We chatted about it informally for a few minutes at our most recent dev meeting. Most of what I wrote is the result of my personal [...]