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Here’s a little Python code to pull back all a user’s Twitter tweets. Make sure you read the notes at bottom in case you want to use it.

Here’s the video from my talk on May 22, 2009 at the Postgres Conference (PGCon) in Ottawa. This blog theme cuts off the slides on the right; a better place to watch it is here.

Here are the slides from my talk on May 22, 2009 at the Postgres Conference (PGCon) in Ottawa. The video will be available soon.

Here’s just a quick note to mention that I’m talking at the annual Postgres Conference aka PGCon. The talk is titled The design, architecture, and tradeoffs of FluidDB, and is at 3pm on…

I posted to the Python Twisted list back in Nov 2008 with subject: A Python metaclass for Twisted allowing __init__ to return a Deferred

Briefly, I was trying to find a nice way to allow the ...

Today I discovered the wonderful Grooveshark and some thoughts occurred to me that I feel like writing down.

I haven’t spent much time thinking about rights over digital media,…

Here are some more thoughts on the (now official) influenza pandemic.

I would like again to emphasize that I’m not an authority and I’m not trying to pass myself off as one.

I’ve…

Here are some thoughts on the current swine influenza outbreak. These are just off the top of my head - I will undoubtedly think of more to say and add it in the comments or another…

Once in a while I run across a piece of writing that has little or nothing to do with being an entrepreneur, but which reads as though it did. I posted an example in 2007: Orwell writing…

Sometime in the next few months, Fluidinfo will launch an alpha version of FluidDB, the database with the heart of a wiki. It’s a big engineering task, and there will still be a lot to…

This is just a quick hack, done in about 20 minutes in 32 lines of Python. The following script will print out the Twitter screen names of the people who signed up immediately before and after a…

Andrew Hensel was an extraordinary human being.

We were graduate students together at The University of Waterloo in Canada in 1986-88. I met him on my first day there and we spent many…

Robert Scoble has just written a really nice article about Fluidinfo, calling us both “world-changing” and “unfundable”. Funnily, Tim O’Reilly said something similar when I talked…

On Monday Tim O’Reilly posted a Twitter tweet suggesting to Robert Scoble that he contact me while in Barcelona.

First off, Tim is very generous in doing this. He’s ultra connected…