William Grosso @ October 5, 2008
Note: I posted this in a comment on scripting news this morning. And then thought– it’s a nice summary of how I’m thinking this election season. Why not put it on my own blog?
As part of that, I also corrected capitalization and spellings.
So, I’m neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I’m kind of a [...]
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William Grosso @ October 2, 2008
Update: by far the best commentary on the bailout has been over in the Becker-Posner blog,
So, for the past week. aside from a few moments pondering tonight’s “debate”1, I’ve been pondering the bailout plan.
Followers of my facebook feed know, of course, that I think the bailout is a bad idea. Even after my lunch [...]
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William Grosso @ July 18, 2008
From craigslist today. Since that ad will expire, here’s the entirety
Exciting startup in downtown Palo Alto is seeking a motivated, smart computer science graduate or student who has a passion for Ruby on Rails. We are looking for the following skills:
• Expert in Ruby language
• Expert in Rails 2+ framework
• Good knowledge of in [...]
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William Grosso @ July 16, 2008
SDForum’s community suffered a great loss when Barbara Cass retired.
The loss is even greater now.
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William Grosso @ July 12, 2008
THE BACKGROUND:
In the bad old days, before everything was on-line and available in structured ways, people used postal mail to send paper copies of their resumes to potential employers.
And, a surprisingly large percentage of the time, their resumes were inaccurate. A somewhat smaller percentage of the time, the resumes were deliberately inaccurate1. Depending on the [...]
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William Grosso @ July 5, 2008
Recently, I ran across Richard Monson-Haefel’s statement that he admires James Gosling.
RMH wrote:
My admiration for him is based on that fact that he invented a platform that was not only interesting and exciting but a platform that is perhaps the most successful programming platform in history. There are more Java software developers and more Java [...]
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William Grosso @ June 7, 2008
I just discovered this morning that Peter Seibel, whom I deeply respect and have lunch with every other year, has been successfully manipulating the very fabric of the web.
A bit of explanation: “Link text” is the label that is displayed with a hyperlink. So, in the paragraph above, “successfully manipulating the very fabric of the [...]
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William Grosso @ June 1, 2008
Recently, I went to the local movie theater to see the latest Indiana Jones film with a friend. We wanted a well-crafted and somewhat mindless action film1 and Indiana Jones seemed like the right choice.
I hadn’t been to a movie theatre in 4 months, and I may never go to another first-run mass-market film. The [...]
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William Grosso @ June 1, 2008
Dave Winer wrote a post today that reminded me why I read him: a lot of the time, I’ll read something that leaves me almost breathless in its combination of muddled-thinking and wishful-thinking. And, after a brief “what?”, I’ll just move on.
Dave, on the other hand, takes the time to point out the flaws in [...]
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William Grosso @ September 17, 2007
20 years ago, Allan Bloom convinced me I knew very little. His book, The Closing of the American Mind, is a bona-fide masterpiece. It’s brilliant, it’s compelling, and, in its own way, it’s as Gonzo as anything Hunter S Thompson ever wrote.
So it shocked me to learn that it’s been 20 years. Because the book [...]
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