Last night, Indiana lost to UCLA in the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament. It was a tough game for me personally because though I was born in Indiana, played basketball while I was growing up and follow the team as much as I can, I picked UCLA to win the whole tournament.
So, there I sat, watching the game trying not to get excited in either direction. When UCLA had a big lead, I was ok with that but once Indiana fought back, my main loyalty to them kicked in and I found myself forgetting about the bracket and just rooting for my home state. I was disappointed when they lost but I guess now I can look at my bracket and still have hope.
I think this issue also shows up quite a bit in fantasy sports. Your fantasy team individuals play your favorite team and you don't really know how to cheer. Such is life sometimes I guess.
Instead of having a big post with lots of links, I've started updating a Tumblelog. Enjoy!
UI Breakthrough - Command Line Interfaces
Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots, Ruby / Rails blog
Command Line for the Comman Man
Lean for Software, Interview with Mary Poppendieck
Starting Findory: In the Beginning
What next for Microsoft in Web search?
Freebase - Centralized control of the distributed web?
Why Functional Programming Matters
On Being Blind to Nonredundant Information
The Several Habits of Wildly Successful Twitter Users
A Wireless LA but with Strings Attached
Building a Web Application with Ruby on Rails and Amazon S3
Backing up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3
Bitbucket - Experimenting with Amazon S3 Service in Python
Infovore, Tom Armitage's blog
Writing massively scalable servers, oldie but goodie
Why Twitter matters... I couldn't agree more.
REST issues, Real and Imagined
Hacking del.icio.us with Python
Introduction to ActiveMessaging for Rails
Workstreaming: The New Face Time
Be Your Own Big Brother, more on Lifestreams
Knowledge Workers as Switchboard Operators
Outliving the Great Variable Shortage
Lifestreams could help create new personalized discovery engines
Why writing your own search engine is hard
Lifestream, Could it be the next big thing?
Calendar Chatter and the Digital Life Manager
The 5 Essential Phone-Screen Questions
It's not what you know, but who you know
Ask.com has released some new tools for their AskCity mapping application. From the looks of it, it's pretty cool.
You can create lines, circles, shapes on a map and then send just that bit to someone. Also, you can create shapes on a map and search for things just within that area.
I think Ask.com is doing the most impressive work in their various search applications. It's too bad more people aren't using them.
Technorati Tags:
search, askcity, localsearch, maps, mapping
PeepCode Page Caching and httperf
Why Specialists are Grumpy and Generalists are Happy
Application Error, another Ruby tumblelog
I'll take Static Typing for $800, Alex
My favorite interview question
Choosing a Python JSON Translator
Investing lessons from Betting on the NCAA tournament
Programming Erlang, much more on this one later
Can your programming language do this?
JSON is not as safe as people think it is
How to make custom Twitter groups
One of my co-workers said I hijacked his day with the links yesterday so I'm going to try and do that again. Oops, I just remembered his boss reads this blog as well. Such is life sometimes...
Building an Relationship Economy
A Database implemented as a RESTful HTTP service
Adding timezone to your Rails app
Angie: Millions Users Instance Messaging
Marissa Mayer on Personalization
Ask.com got a new pen from Google, replacing one that stopped working. It's always good to see companies have a sense of humor. I wish we had rivals like that.
Transitioning from User Experience to Product Management
Event and party planning... If you are building the next Evite-killer, this would be a good place to start.
OpenID and the Value of Connected Identity
Social Visualization, Looking Inside Out
Buyers and Information Seekers search differently
Methods for social archiving of mailing lists
Six cool things you can build with OpenID
OpenID makes web identities real and appealing
Group Theory, free online book
Generalization of Deferred Execution in Python
2007 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Everything I ever needed to know I learned by starting a web company
In case you didn't know, it's March 1st. Two months are in the books, how were they for you? Get much done? Keeping up with any New Year's resolutions?
Mine has been good and bad, somethings I've accomplished while others haven't been quite as easy as I hoped.
But, you can't dwell on the past, it's a new day and a new month. Spring is getting closer, the Cubs play their first Spring Training game today and the days are getting longer. Find a way to make the most of them.