Learning something new every day.

Scottish Ruby Conference – Ticket Sales Close Monday 7 Feb, at the latest
PayPal has to be one of the worst payment processors for business it seems on the internet.
February 2, 2011
The Big Picture – A harrowing, historic week in Egypt
Some incredibly powerful images here of the Egyptian protests.
February 2, 2011
Your Site, Your Design
More content owners are wishing to make it easier for people to share their content in a well meaning attempt to attract more readers, unfortunately I think they are ruining the thing that people are most interested in, the content itself.
February 2, 2011
TechCrunch – Instructure Launches To Root Blackboard Out Of Universities
I’m not even in college anymore and I want Blackboard to fail in the most spectacular way possible.
February 2, 2011
Signals vs. Noise – CSA: A fantastic web site
I really wish I could design something like that, but alas not quite my skill.
February 2, 2011
Daring Fireball – Push Pop Press
Sounds like a cool idea, though with every book a single app, that makes the idea of producing a book an extensive task more so than just scanning in text and converting some videos.
February 2, 2011
The Broadcast Tower – Your code should be as boring as possible
Shockingly enough makes a far amount of sense.
February 1, 2011
TechCrunch – Egypt Shuts Down Noor, Its Last ISP
This is so weird and disturbing the idea of a political entity being able to just disconnect itself from the internet.
January 31, 2011
Official Google Blog – Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard
Only Google has this kind of ability to just buy a company and build a product to make the internet and a public more free.
January 31, 2011
Schneier on Security – Domodedovo Airport Bombing
It sounds silly but it’s an key idea, the TSA can’t be everywhere.
January 30, 2011

Got any book recommendations?