eye surgery #7

Posted by jonathan - 15/12/07 at 11:12:03 am

its been a few days since I posted as I have been getting ready for my 7th eye surgery which happened yesterday morning. I was more nervous than previously simply because the routine which I have unfortunately become accustomed to has changed. I did this relatively simple silicon oil extraction at my doctor’s, Ben Cohen, new surgery center he built out and started using in October of this year.

The experience was much more pleasurable than the new york eye and ear hospital as my wife could sit with me longer. While they still seem to be getting used to the new space and layout the overall experience was better.

broadband

Posted by jonathan - 11/12/07 at 06:12:51 am

Back in 2000 I was quite progressive. I was a member of the green party (don’t start with Nadar) I was an early adopter of broadband and I completely threw off my parents by severing my ties with Ma-bell and sticking to my Sprint cell phone cancer stick. Since then I am turning Republican, my broadband connection barely spits out 150 Mbps and only my parents call me on my landline for which I shell out roughly $60.

As of last week Verizon decided to only play a sound similar to the old the 56k modem sound on my phone line and the word wide web comes to me at a speed only the slowsky’s could appreciate. After a few hours trying to get an answer from Verizon I decided that just like in politics, democrat or republican, I might as well switch teams and go throw money at the cable company rather than the phone company. Next Monday I’ll switch over, but I’m weary since Comcast has gotten bad press for bandwidth throttling and I woke up to an npr story about the author of comcastmustdie.com

QuickCam Pro 9000

Posted by jonathan - 10/12/07 at 08:12:38 pm

Bought the new Logitech Quick Cam pro. Pretty effing schweet if you ask me. I’m sure my new baby will have its mug in front of the thing here shortly. I have managed to avoid getting schooled by kids by not playing video games online, but I still can’t believe an Australian kid, Jay, was showing me how to use my new gadget. urgh I’m feeling old :)

Still trying to figure out how to post video so here’s a link to Jay

why americans are fat

Posted by jonathan - 09/12/07 at 09:12:07 am

From a post over at svn, the 37 signals blog not the source control software, we find a graph ript from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine showing the inverse relationship between our federal food subsidy policies and federal nutrition recommendations.

luv the gov!

rss rebalancing

Posted by jonathan - 08/12/07 at 08:12:55 am

The end of the year brings many things, but for me its usually a lot of booze and reflection. At the bottom of the glass is usually a whisper telling me to rearrange items. I have been in the habit of rebalancing my 401k for a few years now, but this year I thought I’d apply it to my rss reeder, goog of course, and lop-off under performers, add new interests and promote top-performers.
Off the list:

On the list

Promoted

How about you is it time to get rid of those feeds that somehow always have 100 unread items? Maybe its a frequency of update issue but I need to cut down on the noise.

comment spam

Posted by jonathan - 06/12/07 at 08:12:14 am

I started blogging w/ more frequency lately and now I have to figure out how to stop the redonkulous spam. Luckily this is old news and I am using popular software so I can leverage the experience of others. the goog found me this post “wordpress; manage reduce and pervent comment spam“. Now I have to figure out how to weed the comments, tweak the admin and sex up the site. Damn what did i get myself into. this sounds like work
http://5thirtyone.com/archives/816

CC payment on coke machine

Posted by jonathan - 05/12/07 at 06:12:25 pm

I love getting outside NYC to watch prime-time, shoot the shit with the locals, and drink a budweiser like a god-fearing red-blooded american. People in NYC forget that companies roll out cool products in test markets before hitting up something like nyc so one benefit is too see trends in the places where the olive-garden is height of fine dining. Today I bought my first Coke, not pepsi -it does matter- w/ a credit card. Swipe your card, and the two dollars are sucked out of my account swiftly and painlessly. Yum am icy cold beverage. It reminds me of the MTA ads touting your ability to purchase subway cards with a credit card. Its kind of cool but frugal-the-jew a loud voice in my head says that I should not have to pay for these things with a credit card, but am I really going to go down to the atm down stairs for $.75 thats is like a quarter if euros had a 1/4 piece.

can greed save africa?

Posted by jonathan - 05/12/07 at 05:12:31 am

The most recent business week cover story covers the age old international development subject of the potential for greed to save africa. There was nothing ground breaking here, but this quote sparked my curiosity.

Yet such risks are tempered by Africa’s economic idiosyncrasies, which, counterintuitively, might be its biggest selling point. As markets become ever more closely linked, investors are scouring the globe for assets that don’t move in lockstep with those in the rest of the world. Mainstream emerging markets such as Brazil and India now track 70% to 80% of the market movements of the U.S. and Western Europe, up from 50% a decade ago. Frontier Africa, in contrast, tracks just 10% of emerging market moves and even less of developed markets.

What is the implication of a completely globally connected economy? Does the current free market love fest have some consequences? Only our kids might know.

html 5 why should I care

Posted by jonathan - 04/12/07 at 10:12:42 pm

do I need to say more?

day II sqe agile dev practice conf

Posted by jonathan - 04/12/07 at 08:12:45 pm

Switching up from technical to soft skills at the sqe agile dev practice conf, I took Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Project Leaders by Jean Tabaka. This tutorial was much more difficult then yesterday’s as I stepped outside my comfort zone. Additionally I’m having trouble writing up any notes as my ideas about this area are still quite n00b. I was able to stump Jean a bit with my question about what to do as a facilitator when you have crappy penmanship and the lefty smear. hopefully someday soon I will be able to formulate better ideas in this area.

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