Twitter for Week of 22 June 2008

These are my lightly edited tweets for the week of 22 June 2008. Follow me at http://twitter.com/conrad_halling.

  • 2008-06-22: Jeff’s wise words in Stack Overflow podcast #10: “Your job as a manager is to throw yourself on grenades to protect me from being interrupted.”
  • 2008-06-22: The only earphones worse than the earphones Apple provides with its iPods are the free earphones you get on an airplane.
  • 2008-06-22: The Talk Show podcast #22 by John Gruber and Dan Benjamin was devoid of useful content. No transcript available, but none needed.
  • 2008-06-26: Yesterday I finished A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge, a flawless story that is one of the best science fiction novels I’ve read.
  • 2008-06-26: Cool technology: The digEplayer you can rent for $10 on long Alaska Airlines flights.
  • 2008-06-28: I don’t worry about $4/gal gas. My wife and I have not owned a car for 7 years, since moving to Boston. We use ZipCar: http://zipcar.com/
  • 2008-06-28: Another reason we don’t own a car: we can walk to everything. The Walk Score for our neighborhood is 80: http://walkscore.com/

June 29 2008 10:04 am | Microblog

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