http://cimota.com/blog Matt Johnston's Blog About Various Things Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:49:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Only a small percentage of people think of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace when they think of computers. Babbage conceived of a mechanical computer and Lovelace became the first programmer. Both were extraordinarily gifted mathematicians and their work underlies the modern world of computing. (In their time, a computer was ... http://cimota.com/blog/2010/03/14/the-third-generation-of-personal-computers/ I caught a comment on Twitter recently that "a company built on free would be a pretty shitty company". The author has since deleted that tweet, presumably because some of the best companies are built on free. Brands like Gillette ($43B), Google ($185B), Apple ($205B) all leveraged 'free' in some form. ... http://cimota.com/blog/2010/03/11/amazing-companies-are-built-on-free/ I got splatted/slashdotted/fireballed yesterday because Mike Cane posted the "Amazing" link into YCombinator News. Thanks Mike. Now I'm running WP-Super-Cache and have donated to @donncha as well. It's very unlikely I'll need it ever again, but it's ready... http://cimota.com/blog/2010/03/10/splat/ This is amazing. HTML5. No Flash. No Java. Works on iPhone. http://cimota.com/blog/2010/03/09/amazing/ I have an idea for an app or a web site or something. In theory it seems easy and I'm hoping a celever friend or two will help me figure out the detail. Essentially, it's going to make use of this: curl http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3Ausername | grep georss where you replace 'username' with a Twitter ... http://cimota.com/blog/2010/03/08/using-the-geotags-in-twitter/