Global Spin

Starting today, I’m going to remove all my personal information from Facebook and “unfriend” everyone. I’m responding to a pair of status messages that appeared on my profile over the last few weeks, though I didn’t put them there. (John calls them “phantom status messages.”) According to the site itself, the messages were both submitted [...]

Posted by Chris in Technology on December 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Starting today*, you’re going to be hearing me talk about SpaceUp a lot. You can go over to the SpaceUp site to see what it’s all about, but here, among friends, I wanted to talk about me. Erm, I mean, what it means to me. It started as one of those “why isn’t anyone doing [...]

Posted by Chris in Uncategorized on December 1st, 2009 | Comments Off

Looking at my to-do list today, I noticed for the millionth time how two key attributes of a task seem to be either redundant or in conflict: its due date and its priority. It always seemed to me that you should only need to assign one or the other. If you have a deadline, then [...]

Posted by Chris in Business, Science, Technology on November 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A few years ago, I started a project to build something I’d wanted for a long time: a simple device that could read Wikipedia articles and Project Gutenberg texts. I called it a WikiBub. The point was to create something dirt simple on the cheap, instead of the usual “convergence device” that does everything (and [...]

Posted by Chris in Making Stuff, Technology on October 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’m having entirely too much fun uploading my meeting doodles to Flickr. Sometimes it’s refreshing to do something of absolutely no consequence. Next up: color drawings, thanks to some colored pencils Jesse gave me. (OK, he actually gave them to Ben, but I’ve appropriated them in the name of meeting sanity.)

Posted by Chris in Art, Plain foolishness, Shameless Promotion on October 16th, 2009 | Comments Off