waffle

Scott Hanselman tours Fog Creek Software on Channel 9. They moved in last October, and Joel has a short writeup and a Picasa gallery. As everyone else has already said, I wouldn’t mind working in a place with that kind of surroundings.

The stalemate’s broken; the US recently eased the embargo against Cuba to make it easier for Cuban Americans“US-ians” to send home money and make more frequent trips, and Raúl Castro, who has recently allowed modern technology like DVD players in Cuban homes, signals that he’s ready to start talking to the US again. It is a rare case when a decades long stare-down is the best answer; I may not agree with any of the Cuban, Iranian or North Korean policies, but I think it’s in the best interest for the world that they have a cordial relationship with the rest of it, and a big part of that is the relationship with the US. (Cuba just might have collapsed more or less on its own, Soviet Union-style, in a few years if it hadn’t had a range of allies with more momentum.)

There is such a thing as “too convergent”.

37signals highlights great design and great UI for the music store We Are Hunted. More obvious, less crap and a more easily acquired target.

In response to my assertion that FreeType (for patent reasons) renders like crap, my friend Squash Monster (it’s in his passport), pointed out that you can enable, quoth him, “’steal apple’s font renderer’ mode”, which turns out to look acceptable.

Hey look! It’s spreading. I hope we can all relearn how to work this thing. “Pump, pump, pump that area“…