Letters Remain

Category: technology

  • The 50 Most Powerful Blogs

    The Observer shows us their top 50 blogs, and the top 5 were: The Huffington Post Boing Boing TechCrunch Kottke Dooce via Kottke

  • Y Combinator and Starting a Startup

    Y Combinator is a seed-stage startup venture capital firm with a refreshingly novel outlook on venture capitalism. Their Startup Library provides a wonderful selection of links to stories, articles, and many other resources. Be careful; once you start thinking about going ‘startup’ you’re likely not to go back for a long, long time.

  • UML: Not Good and Not Funny

    An hilarious diatribe on UML and it’s practices: The Teaching Assistant for your OO-101 class has instructed me to approach you directly about the D-minus grade I got on my term paper “An evaluation of the proposed Unified Modeling Language (UML)“. I hope you will consider changing it to something better — a plain D…

  • Obsolete Skills – Talking Face-to-Face

    Scobleizer recently asked people to come up with a list of obsolete skills. Someone duly registered ObsoleteSkills.com, created a wiki, and put up a huge A-Z list: Cranking up or down a car window Inserting a game cartridge at just the right angle to make it work Loading film into a 35mm camera via kottke