Catfood Earth for Android 1.40
Updated on Monday, May 31, 2021
Catfood Earth for Android now includes the option to display earthquakes (magnitude 5.0 or higher) from the USGS feed.
I Thought He Came With You (ITHCWY) is Robert Ellison's blog.
GetvCard shutting down at the end of 2013
Updated on Sunday, May 16, 2021
GetvCard.com is a contact exchange service I put together with a friend back before the Internet was popular. You could edit a business card online and then share it via a small link that would download a vCard file that would import your details magically. We even figured out how to hack the format to kind-of-sort-of work with Outlook of that era. I haven't had time to work on the site for ages and while it still has a few dedicated fans there aren't enough regular users to justify the maintenance. As of today it's no longer possible to create a new account. The plug will be pulled entirely at the end of the year.
If you're looking for a similar service you could try about.me, although they seem to be turning into a social network rather than just a way to share your contact information. You could also try Carddrop. I'm sure there are other options as well.
When the site goes all existing contact information will be deleted, so if you need to save any details or redirect contact links please do so by the end of the year. If you need help leave a comment below.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: GetvCard shutting down at the end of 2013 #code #getvcard #vcard GetvCard, the contact information sharing service based on vCard, shut down at the end of 2013 and is no longer available. )
Venus Sets
Updated on Sunday, September 18, 2022
Time lapse of Venus setting as seen from Bernal Heights in San Francisco.
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Moth
Updated on Thursday, November 12, 2015
Photo of a moth taken with a Lytro light field camera.
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USS Hornet
Updated on Sunday, May 3, 2020
Photos of the USS Hornet taken with a Lytro light field camera.
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San Francisco from Alameda
Updated on Saturday, October 1, 2022
Photo of downtown San Francisco under a lot of clouds taken from Alameda.
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Number Line
Updated on Thursday, November 12, 2015
From The Museum of Mathematics at Discovery Days (AT&T Park).
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Lightfield Tree
Updated on Thursday, November 12, 2015
Playing with Lytro (light field camera). A tree in Bernal Heights Park, San Francisco.
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Book reviews for October 2013
Updated on Friday, February 24, 2017
Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18) by Lee Child
4/5
Exactly what you'd expect from Reacher. It's a solid thriller and totally on form.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
4/5
The fascinating, troubling and ultimately morally ambiguous story of how a ubiquitous and storied cell line (HeLa) came to be, and the impact this had on the family of Henrietta Lacks (whose cells became HeLa).
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
3/5
The central idea of the book - better to construct small experiments and learn faster - seems right, but for a book about validated learning there is precious little data to support the hypothesis. Do Lean Startups return more money to investors or do they just pivot between slightly different ways to share photos before entering the deadpool at the same rate as Fat Startups? I want to believe Lean is better but a stack of anecdotes about IMVU just isn't enough to convince me.
Also, I hate all business books that start out by explaining how their profound ideas are applicable to all people at all times in all industries before stretching out a paragraph of insight over hundreds of turgid pages.
Lastly always read business books a few years after the peak of their popularity so you get the benefit of hindsight and a chuckle at the companies that are held up as shining examples of the author's methodology at the time but are now dead, festering or mostly incarcerated.
Having said all that I think that the approach is generally right and I appreciate that at several points in the book Ries states that there are no easy answers and no substitute for good judgement.
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Book reviews for October 2013
Updated on Friday, February 24, 2017
Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18) by Lee Child
4/5
Exactly what you'd expect from Reacher. It's a solid thriller and totally on form.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
4/5
The fascinating, troubling and ultimately morally ambiguous story of how a ubiquitous and storied cell line (HeLa) came to be, and the impact this had on the family of Henrietta Lacks (whose cells became HeLa).
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
3/5
The central idea of the book - better to construct small experiments and learn faster - seems right, but for a book about validated learning there is precious little data to support the hypothesis. Do Lean Startups return more money to investors or do they just pivot between slightly different ways to share photos before entering the deadpool at the same rate as Fat Startups? I want to believe Lean is better but a stack of anecdotes about IMVU just isn't enough to convince me.
Also, I hate all business books that start out by explaining how their profound ideas are applicable to all people at all times in all industries before stretching out a paragraph of insight over hundreds of turgid pages.
Lastly always read business books a few years after the peak of their popularity so you get the benefit of hindsight and a chuckle at the companies that are held up as shining examples of the author's methodology at the time but are now dead, festering or mostly incarcerated.
Having said all that I think that the approach is generally right and I appreciate that at several points in the book Ries states that there are no easy answers and no substitute for good judgement.
