Wednesday, April 11, 2001
What the Web will be. Maybe.
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Thursday, March 28, 2002
An interesting article on the paperless office from our friends at the New Yorker.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2002
Haven't saved any money? Figuring you can wait to do that? Think again. I wrote a quick script to calculate how much money you will have for retirement and how long you can live on that based on various expectations. Check it out.
Monday, March 10, 2003
That we've have solved the whole transportation problem. Today is the first SXSW weekday, and parking in downtown Austin is terrible. One would think we'd have solved the whole "where do I put my car?" problem. Think about urban business and living in any major Western city and a huge consideration in designing a downtown or a new apartment complex or anything else is where to put people's cars. It's wasteful to have 3000 lbs of metal to move around 150 lbs of flesh, or in the US, 5000 lbs of metal to move around 250 lbs of flesh. Here's one solution:
Not that anything like that's going to get anywhere in this country until we fundamentally change the economic incentives (or absence of deterrents) to buying a behemoth vehicle that gets 10 miles per gallon.
Link from mute.
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