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Well it seems like I am one of the three percent of floridian republicans who voted for dr. Paul in FL.
You would think that the massive interweb ron paul army would have been able to drum up more than 23k and change people to vote now when it matters most.
Not that I have lost the faith. Just possibly doupting the competance of the campaigners.
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My weeks are getting too short. Too much to do too little time. Now my weekends are shrinking too.
Saturday we spent 10 hours at the Florida state fair. And then Sunday was all morning at a kids event around the corner. Both were lots of fun. Both were extremely exhausting.
You may notice that my writing style has developed to totally exclude the comma this is because there isn’t an easy way to type a comma on the bb keyboard.
One of these days I need to try composing a blog entry on my ipod touch. I doubt it is as easy as the blacberry.
So I got the scrumm book on bjorn schottes advice and it is VERY interesting. The concepts are simpe and it can be applied to software projectsd of any size. Will have my first meeting with my guys and go over all the points in the book and how it can be applied to our work.
in his apartment - did he own AAPL???
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It is totally awesome. Totally crippled but still totally awesome.
The hardware is amazing the screen is great. However whenever I am playing with a cool piece of technology the geek within always thinks of cool things the gadget should be able to do.
Does it have an offline rss aggregator or podcatcher? No. Well then can you at least download files and music and add them to your library? No.
The ipod touch is such an awesome piece of hardware. I can’t wait till I can hack it.
Oh yeah, google docs was a dissapointment as well. Read only. At least gmail and youtube rock.
* awormus apologises if this is the wrong channel to ask :
* awormus is a bit of a n00b 
can you recommend a good book which will get me up to speed on Asterisk / VoIP and general concepts?
A post on slashdot reminded me of the lack of business sense in many open source programmers.
“I’ve been working on a financial application which I’ve decided to release to the public. I want to make some money from the application, though I certainly don’t expect to become a millionaire. The problem is that I’d like nothing better than to open-source it. There are many aspects of the application that I don’t have time to refine, and other developers could definitely improve upon my work. However, I don’t know how I earn money from something once I’ve made it open source. How have you dealt with trying to turn a reasonable profit on your work while remaining open-sourced?”
Number 1: Why don’t you expect to become a millionaire? Did you sit down and decide that there was no way that your application has can sell 50,000 copies (at $20 a pop)? Do you think the financial professionals can’t afford your product? Did you think about residuals, service plans, program upgrades, additional features. When you have a good piece of software and a business plan, it’s not difficult to make a million dollars from it (especially when the dollar is as weak as it is now). If you don’t want to make a million dollars from a program, you might as well not bother.
Number 2: If you want to make money on a piece of software, you’re going to have to start building features which your clients want/need. Regardless of whether or not you enjoy programming that specific feature. Making your application open source so that someone else might come in and do all the stuff that you think is too boring is not a business plan. To make money you’re also going to need to create a website, write a manual, create marketing material, and a lot of other boring stuff.
To sum it up, with your software development attitude you aren’t going to make any money off your product, regardless of its open source nature. You might as well open source it and then put up a donations button which gets you a Latte a day (if you’re lucky).
So, is it possible to make money from open source software? Absolutely. But because I have to run in to work telling you how will have to wait
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On saturday night I finally broke down and went out and bought myself the ibanez artcore.
I have been going back and forth between a couple different guitars and the larger problem of if I want an electric or acoustic guitar. I probably played every guitar at guitar central and the Artcore was the one that jumped out at me. Not only is it a beautiful guitar, but being a hollowbody you can play it with or without amplification. And when plugged in it sings.
Very happy.
I looked at a few epiphones but the necks were to thick. And they were more expensive.
Time to work.
I blogged about Shawn Andersen and the Roxy’s Pub discrimination case half an hour ago while on my way to work. 20 minutes later I go to add some hyperlinks to the post (the main problem with mobile blogging) and I decide google for shawn andersen roxys and find that my post is on the top of the search results.
Is that crazy or what?
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If you listen to the radio at all in palm beach county you will have heard the story of Shawn Anderson vs. Roxys Pub.
The reported story is that Shawn Anderson was kicked out of Roxys for having Grillz. He accused Roxys of discriminating against people of color. John (owner) stated that grillz are against the dress code and people not complying with the dress code are asked to leave.
John then proceeded to put up the “Shawn Anderson Quiz” as well as copies of Shawn’s lengthy criminal record on the roxys pub website.
The website has seen a massive spike in traffic since then. Like they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
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Went out looking for guitars last night. I am torn as to what I want. I have always had an acoustic guitar and now think that I should move past that and expand my knowledge with an electric.
I’ve played a lot on various electric guotars and none of them jumped out at me the way their nice acoustic guitars do. I played a couple ibanez hollowbodies and the were beautiful when plugged in but tinney when not.
I guess the maun question is if I’ll spend more time jacked in or not.
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After the longest wait ever (20 days for an amazon order) I finally got I am Legend.
It isn’t the story that I have a problem with its the packaging. I bought the book thinking that the entire book was I am Legend onluy the first 150 pages are I am Legend and the rest were short stories.
Is it too difficult to name your book “I am Legend - and other short srories”? Maybe it is just me, but how a book is bound has a lot to do with how I read it. In this case I put the book down 5 pages from the end of the story and then picked it up again only to find that the story had ended. Slighly disappointing for a book that I was enjoying.
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A bit nonpulsed about the google apps trial I signed up for today.
there doesn’t seem to be any groupware functionality. No sharing contacts, no automatocally shared callendars. I mean if I have to manually add everyones schedules to everyone elses that will be a crapload of adding - even gfor a s$mall company.
Granted this has just been my initial impression after banging it around for a few minutes.
Maybe it gets better. Nah!
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Walking to work isn’t that much fun after you’ve hurt your hip, and then gone bowling with a sore hip ;(
If you are driving down dixie hwy and see a shabily dressed guy limping down the road while hammering away on his blacberrt that’s me.
Talking about walking down dixie, I always get asked for directions. I guess I am going to work at a time when everyone else is going somewhere. Most of the time its jurors looking for the courthouse. Just now it was someone looking for the palm beach atlantic university.
This is becoming too painful. Must focus on walking.
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Watched the premier last night. Was pretty good as far as AG is concerned.
I started out not liking the “Marine Mom” that much but she was so incredibly tough it was impressive. A pity that she smacked her head on that underwater pole. If she wouldn’t have hurt hetself, she would have won.
The firefighter and spidermonkey wew also very entertaning. Watch out for the little guys.
Two hours was way too much gladiator for one sitting.
Now that I have figured out how to type with this thoing I am writing a lot more in my six-minute walk.
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With a website relaunch which has0been in the works for well over two years.
Everyone check out www.hedgeco,net
The actual transition was fairly seamless and only took about six jours of DNS screwups which kept us at the office a couple hours late.
Now it is time to go through the site and patch up all the big remaining beta issues and get this thibg ready for our official launch.
Woot.
Its much warmer today.
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