A recent project required me to filter a long list of regex-matched phone numbers and weed out any that weren’t likely residential (no 800, 888, 900, etc), any that were outside the U.S. proper (so no Guam, Puerto Rico, etc), or not a valid phone number at all (e.g., starting with 411, 123, etc). I’m [...]
I just ran a vanity search on Powerset… How did they know?!?
I have to hand it to their design team, it looks a lot better than the U2 iPod. Also, with only 500 units being produced, it might be the first Zune model to sell out! Via Pitchfork
I’ve been meaning to do something along these lines for ages.. still strikes me as an excellent Firefox plug-in. Trying to track down a poorly titled page you visited a couple of days ago is usually quite a pain, and seeing a clear path from where you began could be a great help with this. [...]
I noticed KPCB‘s site has been down for a couple of hours this afternoon. Could this be an indication of the volume of interest in their $100m investment fund for iPhone applications? As for my own interest, let’s just say that yesterday I finally broke down and bought the Macbook Pro I had been debating [...]
I decided to register a business for my contract work. I’m filling out this form (pdf), and it asks for my “Title / Position”. This is obviously an extremely important question that I hadn’t given enough consideration.. what should my title be in my sole proprietorship? I’ve always liked the image conjured by “Czar”, but [...]
When I don’t take a decision, it’s not that I don’t think about it. I think about it and take a decision not to take a decision. – P. V. Narasimha Rao See, if I hadn’t waffled for so long about purchasing an iphone I would be kicking myself now.
I’ll admit, it’s tempting: http://retromactheme.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/?p=4
Now that I’ve listed this domain on my moocards, I suppose I ought to use it. It has essentially been dormant since being registered in December 06, mostly because I wanted to create an exceptionally cool WordPress theme first. As you can see, I still haven’t gotten around to that. Give me a break, I’m [...]