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Joe Litton’s Blog Paul Graham on Hackers and Painters via Ben Langhinrich’s Blog

My son is almost six years old and one of the last kids on the block to bike. Even the three year old kids could do it. We didn’t understan why … Then my wife had the idea to go to a “real” cycle shop. We came out with a new (and expensive) bike. That was yesterday. This morning we went out to try it. It took him 15 minutes before he drove on his own, another 5 min to learn how to get off without falling, and 10 to start on his own. ...

Aus dem Leben einer fille du limmatquai

One of the really cumbersome things in Domino development is the constant struggle to get Domino to do what I want it to do. Case in point: I have a textfield, but I want to let the user edit the text in a textarea. Domino only displays textareas for RichText fields - which is not at all what I want. On Notes.net there was a partial solution… Here’s the complete one… ...

Reading Joi on SpotMe. I didn’t know we had such cool companies in switzerland. Go to Spotme. (and it’s even running Linux ;-)

One week after I found out about LinkedIn and promptly started to invite a number of my business contacts. So far, this hasn’t led to me being part of a “the total is greater than the sum of it’s part’s” network. In fact, I’m part of a 5 person network with me being the most well connected person in it. So what’s wrong, what went wrong? During the first two days of being a LinkedIn member, I sent out 38 invitations with an indivdual text, describing in my words the benefits of such a system and links to the Many-to-many list and to my homepage. Most of the people are regulars of mine, some of them I dug up for the occasion (People I’ve been in school with for example). ...