Jim Coyer’s Weblog

Paul Graham talks about parallels between hacking and painting - two realms seemingly disconnected or at least worlds apart.

But he shows how they are not - supporting the idea of gradual refinement and good tools.

I get off track - what I really wanted to say was: there’s something about painting (in my case, hacking) that feels right; that exercises the right part of the brain; that improves my thinking through its exercise. It makes me wonder why more people don’t write software. Will program writing be a required class in future high schools, just as creative writing is today? If not, why not?

We all have a definition of a perfect office location; this is mine. Overlooking Santos Dumont airport in the heart of downtown Rio de Janeiro, I’d be 30% productive - on a good day.

But what a view….

Thanks for rubbing it in, Ana Patricia…

I couldn’t have said it any better than Scott Hanselman:

“It supports features lesser companies would have punted on.” 

Now that’s a great quote. And true.

Some reflections on publishing, RSS, and push (ala Pointcast) from a .NET guy. About a year old, but still relevant.

And what about the screensaver idea? That strikes me as very cool - display news headlines like Pointcast did.

via Cullen Childress.

This eMarketer article reveals the results of a survey of over 17,000 blog readers to get in idea of weblog reader demographics. The findings are interesting: 61% are over the age of 30, 75% make more than $45,000 a year. Not the Jaguar crowd, but not just disgruntled teenagers either.

Bruce Schneier seemingly always has interesting things to say about cryptography and security. His latest Crpto-Gram newsletter talks about the latest news about Chalabi, NSA, and Iranian encrypted communication.

Home grown telematics - an interesting home-grown console in a European car - powered by a Mac. Plays MP3 songs, shows navigation information, in-dash speed, engine temperature, and fuel consumption.

Definitely better-looking than my BMW dashboard…