For my entire life, and the majority of my parent's and grandparent's lives we have not had diplomatic relations with Cuba. Last night, the President has made moves to finally end this ridiculous policy. It's the beginning of the end of the disastrous 54 year Cuban Embargo, and I for…
This weekend I dove into a side project that I conceived of over Thanksgiving. The goal is to explore the Twitter API, and figure out a way to find interesting new people to follow on Twitter. I probably spent 20 hours coding and got really really into it. I have…
We aren't really good at taking vacation. We work more then other industralized nations, and are now at at a 40 year low in terms of how much vacation we take. It's pretty clear that are worse off because of this, and that we need to take more time off…
Pair programming is part of the DNA of my company. We brought in Pivotal to help build the company’s first product a few years ago (before I joined) - and have been a pairing friendly environment ever since. For the past few weeks though, we’ve been trying to…
My iPhone just stopped working this morning, and as a result I've been without it for the whole day. What I've learned about myself today is fairly interesting: 1. I'm An Idiot For Not Backing Up My Documents I found out that I'll be losing all my photos on my…
Thanksgiving is great - no work, lots of food, catching up with family. But somehow over the years we have created four fake holidays immediately following thanksgiving. I for one refuse to participate in these activities, and call on all my fellow Americans to do the same. Black Friday Must…