Grand Theft Childhood is a new book written by Dr. Lawrence Kutner and Dr. Cheryl Olson, a husband-and-wife team who co-founded the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media. In the video above, Drs. Kutner and Olson talk with X-Play’s Adam Sessler about some of the findings from the study documented in their book.
And to think that it’s Apple that gets associated with the term “Reality Distortion Field”: here’s an internal Microsoft video featuring a faux Bruce Springsteen band singing about how the Vista sales team “saw lots of sales” can expect to see even more now that SP1 is out. I also show some other equally painful Microsoft Windows-related videos.
At b5media, we’re saying farewell to Aaron Brazell, our Director of Technology — he’s leaving to pursue other projects. We’d like to thank him for everything he’s done, which is quite a bit: he joined when b5 was still a startup running literally out of a garage and shepherded its growth to a blog network of over 300 blogs with a total of 10 million unique pageviews a month.
The question is put: who will our next Director of Technology be? It could be you. Read on to find out…
Aaron Brazell, b5media’s Director of Technology has a blog entry on his blog, Technosailor, titled 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5. It provides a brief overview of ten features of the very-soon-to-be-released WordPress 2.5, which I’ve quickly summarized.
I figured I’d start off the working week with a big announcement: I’ve landed a new gig. As of this Thursday, March 6th, I’m going to be working at b5media.
…is this Threadless T-shirt design whose title is The Madness of Mission 6:
Click the image to see the t-shirt order page.
It started with the article titled Do Not Learn Ruby, after which came a response titled Do Not Learn Perl, and then came Do Not Learn Python.
Why shouldn’t you learn these languages? Because they’ll get under your skin. You’ll start to loathe whatever other programming language you’re working on, especially if it’s statically compiled. You’ll start thinking it’s impossible for you to keep using the technology you’re currently using at work.
The moral of the story: don’t use these languages!
Here are the schedules demos and Ignite presentations for DemoCamp 17…[read more]
Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. According to the New York Times, Seattle is actually doing it. In this article, I’m going to talk about ideas that Toronto can borrow from both Silicon Valley and Seattle.
