Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled

February 2008 - Posts

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  Congrats to Nate and Kyle on the BricaBox launch!

  Just wanted to give a quick shout to my buddy Nate for launching BricaBox . We've been building for nearly as long (and are launching soon), and it's a big milestone. Congrats, Nate and Kyle. Posted Feb 26 2008, 03:48 PM by Tim with no comments Filed under: NYC, Startup

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  2008

  Time Management? It's the Attention, Stupid

  Those of you who follow Getting Things Done know that you don't manage time, you manage tasks. Scott says he "thought [time management] was all about being organized and careful planning", but "the number one thing you can do to . . . is be very selective about what you choose to do... Posted Feb 25 2008, 06:35 AM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Productivity

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  2008

  T-Mobile doesn't know how to treat its customers

  It looks like T-Mobile dropped their data plan from $29.99/mo to $19.99/mo. I originally thought this was related to the new unlimited rate plans and losing the Starbucks account , but it was actually back in September (on my birthday no less). I must have missed it at the time, given that whole wedding... Posted Feb 24 2008, 10:16 AM by Tim with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Rants, Gadgets, Things that bother me, Business, Marketing

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  2008

  Happy (Belated) 5th Birthday to Loosely Coupled

  I started blogging on January 29th, 2003 . We've been a little heads down trying to get Notches to launch and I completely forgot to write about this, but I've now been blogging for over five years. I talked last year about my motivations for blogging, and they definitely continue to hold true... Posted Feb 23 2008, 02:11 PM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Personal, Blogging, Slashstar, Site News

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  23

  2008

  Some amazing water effects in Epic's latest Unreal Engine

  I've had a few "wow" moments in Call of Duty 4, which certainly rivals Gears of War as one of the prettiest games around on the 360. But after seeing the water effects that Epic demonstrated at GDC this week, all I can say is wow. (via X3F ) Posted Feb 23 2008, 11:36 AM by Tim with no comments Filed under: XBox 360, Gaming

• Feb

  22

  2008

  Being better than free when copies are ubiquitous

  The digital world fundamentally changes what a copy means for copyright. I wrote about this in the past from the legal perspective, suggesting an implied license to reproduce and a greater reliance on other rights. Kevin Kelly has a great post up about the Internet's role as a super-distribution... Posted Feb 22 2008, 10:15 AM by Tim with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Business, Law

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  2008

  Friday Fun: 2 hippies and the Lone Ranger

  This is a great story. Thanks, Dad. Posted Feb 22 2008, 08:27 AM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Things that amuse me, Friday Fun

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  2008

  MTA's new Trip Planner

  MTA recently launched a new service called Trip Planner .  I've used it a few times since I'm still learning some of the buses and trains around our new offices, and it seems to work pretty well. What I like about it more than HopStop is that it gives you multiple routes and is actually... Posted Feb 20 2008, 06:39 AM by Tim with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Personal, Web 2.0, NYC

• Feb

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  2008

  Firefox 3 Beta 3

  I've been using the recently released Firefox 3 Beta 3 for a few days on my home machine. It's not quite ready for prime-time - I've found that in particular a lot of AJAX stuff, like on Twitter, doesn't work. Not sure if the implementation is just not finished, but that's a little... Posted Feb 19 2008, 09:49 PM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Technology, Software Development

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  2008

  CIGNA Sucks!

  Jason explains why ( via Jesse ). (Yeah, I'm late on this one). Posted Feb 11 2008, 02:52 PM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Rants, Things that bother me, Personal