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Pardon our Dust: The Halcyon Days is Currently Under Construction
All, I am dreadfully sorry for the delays in the WordPress.org install, but my hosting provider has been slow in putting my changes to the back-end routing configuration into effect. (For the technical: Supposedly, DNS changes are to be processed within 24 hours. It took GoDaddy almost 40.) JasonDRowley.com should be up and running relatively…
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The Halcyon Days Will Experience Some Technical Issues
Dear All, I’m migrating The Halcyon Days over to a self-hosted implementation through WordPress.org. Interruption in service to jasondrowley.com is expected, but should not last more than the next 24-48 hours, depending on my attention span. In the meantime, The Halcyon Days will be available at jasondrowley.wordpress.com. My primary motivation for switching to self-hosting is…
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The Myth of Market Bubbles, or “On Crashing Waves”
The term “market bubble” is a misnomer. What begins as a teeny sliver of a trend, spawned of some prediction or cause unknown, moves forward. They propagate, and just like a nascent tsunami, small reverberations go unnoticed.
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Not Another Chernobyl
The still-developing situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after last week’s devastating earthquake is not, I repeat, is not another Chernobyl, despite what headline writers and news anchors would like to claim. I assert that, while this crisis hasn’t killed as many people, or leaked as much radiation or fissile material as the 1986…
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Some Quotes & The Halcyon Days Goes on Academic Lockdown
Such is the life of a student. In the coming 168 hours, I have to write more than 40 pages. One of the papers, about the future of the intellectual in the age of the blog, is worthy of publication on The Halcyon Days, but the others are exceedingly, brutally dry. They are, like certain…
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Winklevoss, v. [trans.]
1) [tech startup-specific] Coerce (someone) with technical expertise in computer science to build the startup idea of a non-technical founder, usually with a minimal ownership stake in the final product. : Tony has a really good idea for a web application, but will have to winklevoss a technical cofounder. 2) [general] Manipulate those with expertise to…
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So I’ve Got This Really Big Idea
I have an idea for a web-based application (with the eventual release of an iPad app as well) which acts as a platform for collaborative note-taking. I’ve already figured out the user interface (though I’m always looking for advice), and most of the front-end functionality and basic frameworks.