Monthly Archive for September, 2007

Amazon launches MP3 Store

DRM-Free Music at a price cheaper than iTunes. Its good for consumers, but is it good for Steve?

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Paul Graham on Philosophy

Aristotle’s goal was to find the most general of general principles. The examples he gives are convincing: an ordinary worker builds things a certain way out of habit; a master craftsman can do more because he grasps the underlying principles.

Paul Graham usually writes about hacking, but I think this article can be more generally applied to business and human endeavor. Ask yourself, what habit or comfort zone can I can myself out of, professionally? What would that do for my business?

DB Errors Fixed

Mental note: Don’t perform a Wordpress upgrade in the middle of the day, while trying to answer emails, read rss, and get out of the house to direct a photo shoot for a clients website.

In all the confusion, I forgot to upgrade the db when I uploaded the new WP 2.3 files, and left the site bork’d for a few hours this afternoon. Now back to your regularly scheduled program…

Wordpress 2.3 is out!

Wordpress 2.3 it available for download , and now sports a slick new native Tag system to replace the kludge of using Categories for this purpose.

Pardon My Dust

Inspired by BarCamp, I finally rebooted this site, and moved it to wordpress.