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Google App Engine Blog: The new Task Queue API on Google App Engine

royleban — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:30:31 GMT

Task Queue API live on Google App Engine

Vroo Speak

royleban — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:59:30 GMT

My brother's blog

Quoted: There have been a flurry of media reports about the "news" that English is getting it's one millionth word! The most disturbing issue with all these new words is that the average length of a word has increased from 5.1 around 1900 to 7.3 at the present time. To counter this, the Unicode consortium has announced plans to add 20 new letters to the English alphabet. It's predicted that these new letters will stabilize the average length of a word well into the 21st century.

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Why Won't Dick Cheney Shut Up?

royleban — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:12:00 GMT

Quoted: Never before has a disgraced former Vice President spent so much time criticizing the current President, predicting and hoping for failure. As our last President suggested, if he's not with us, he must be with the terrorists. I think Dick Cheney wants the terrorists to win. His views match Osama bin Laden perfectly. He wants more destruction. He wants

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I Almost Hit A Bicyclist

royleban — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:21:00 GMT

Quoted: I was about to make a right turn onto a five-lane street. There wasn't much traffic, but I waited for it clear, then started my turn. Right in front of me, there was a bicyclist. Going the wrong way. In the dark. Without a helmet. Without a light. I didn't hit him, but I could have. As he bicycled off, I saw he had a red light on the back of the bike.

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Ignore All Data

royleban — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:23:00 GMT

Quoted: "Data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions." -- Derek Bowman, Creative Director, Twitter (formerly Google)"We let the math and the data govern how things look and feel." -- Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience, GoogleThese

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Does Mint Want Unhappy Customers?

royleban — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:17:00 GMT

Quoted: Imagine you go into a cheese shop trying to buy some cheese. You just want some Cheddar. You ask if they have it, but they won't tell you. Instead, they want you to sign up -- give them your name, contact information, bank and credit card accounts, and only then will they answer your question. OK. You do it, you give them all that information and then

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Ignite Seattle Looks Promising (and I'm giving a talk)

royleban — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:51:00 GMT

Quoted: I'm talking at Ignite Seattle on Wednesday. It's about UX, but it's pretty different than any UX talk you've seen before -- and it's only 5 minutes long. Here's the blurb: Worst Case User Experience: Alzheimer's When the time came to move my father-in-law into an Alzheimer’s facility, I approached the problem as I approach any technical problem -- I

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Learn From My Mistakes

royleban — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:17:00 GMT

Quoted: I broke a lot of my own rules in my talk at the First Look Forum and, unfortunately, it wasn't the best thing to do. I've spent a lot of time listening to advisors over the last few months. And, most of the time, the advisors know more than me, so I've learned a lot. But, sometimes, you have to trust your gut. By not doing that, my presentation did

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Making A Fast Pitch

royleban — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:09:00 GMT

Quoted: It always takes longer to write less. I already had a pitch for a 10-minute talk, but the first pitch in the NWEN First Look Forum is a 3-minute pitch. And, I only get to do the 10-minute pitch if I'm in the top five, so the 3-minute pitch is actually more important. The 3-minute pitch deck is limited to five slides which, unless you're the fast talker

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The One Pager

royleban — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:51:00 GMT

Quoted: A business plan, an elevator pitch, a pitch deck -- the number of different things you have to have to successfully pitch your company is amazing. Now add in the one pager. Whether you call it that or an executive summary or a company overview, it's an essential part of the whole story. Like the one-page resume, you want a single, concise one-page document

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