Jolicloud appears to be the OS my netbook had been waiting for

jolicloud launcher

Joli­cloud Launcher

If you are a net­book user and you have been look­ing for the per­fect OS to put on your net­book, might i sug­gest: Jolicloud.

What are my cri­te­ria for a great net­book OS?  Basi­cally 3 things:

Max­i­mized screen real estate
Runs FAST on mobile proces­sor
Exten­sive dri­vers to sup­port hard­ware
NOT […]

Real, artful, mobile wallpapers that i might actually want to have on my phone

poolga wallpaper

Now THAT’s wallpaper

Poolga. iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch wall­pa­pers for the rest of us. -

Poolga offers a direc­tory of wall­pa­pers for mobile devices from artists, design­ers, and illus­tra­tors, and as far as I can tell.… they are all FREE (as in beer).  The designs range from […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Decem­ber 30th through February 2nd:

Send a FAX by E-mail –

Yes, thats right. SEND a FAX by EMAIL! No reg­is­tra­tion, no cost. Just fol­low the easy instruc­tions on the page. I love this, it’s like the blu-ray ver­sion of […]

Two Thousand and Fine: Download This

READ THIS:  Impor­tant instruc­tions on get­ting PRESENTS

You lucky, lucky peo­ple!  You don’t even know.

Merry every­thing to every­one, and i truly mean that.

Because i am feel­ing so gen­er­ous i’ve gone ahead and made presents for EVERYONE I KNOW (and even some folks i don’t know, i’m sure)!

To claim your own gift simply […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Decem­ber 7th through December 16th:

Dive Into HTML5

Great ref­er­ence mate­r­ial on HTML5. If you’re into that sort of thing.

WhoSam­pled — Dis­cover and Dis­cuss Music Sam­ples and Cover Songs –

This is actu­ally a really cool music-nerd web­site. Search songs, find the samples, […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Novem­ber 14th through November 18th:

SQL Buddy — Web based MySQL administration –

a fast and sim­ple web-based open-source SQL inter­face. No fuss instal­la­tion. Nowhere near as feature-complete as php­MyAd­min but a clean user-friendly alter­na­tive for clients and noobs. (not that […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Octo­ber 16th through November 10th:

Mock­Flow: Online Wire­frame Tool for Soft­ware and Websites –

Rapid pro­to­typ­ing, col­lab­o­ra­tive, web­site wire-framing.

Yes, web­sites cre­at­ing web­sites is get­ting pretty “meta”. Deal with it!

I Love Local Com­mer­cials — Spon­sored by Micro­Bilt Corporation –

Nom­i­nate your favorite busi­ness to get a […]

SELECT * FROM joel.friends WHERE interests = 'SQL' AND geek_factor >= 10;

I get real juiced up going to con­fer­ences and hackathons and such.  The energy of work­ing side-by-side with gifted indi­vid­u­als, and the accel­er­ated learn­ing that goes on swells up my brains and fuels my ambi­tion engine.  Plus camp is awesome!

In Novem­ber I’ll be get­ting my fill for […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Octo­ber 6th through October 14th:

Sta­tus Address Bar :: Add-ons for Firefox –

A handy FF plu­gin that makes the sta­tus bar (at the bot­tom of the browser win­dow) obso­lete. Sim­ply dis­plays a link URL in the loca­tion bar rather than the status bar.

WheresMyCellPhone.com […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Sep­tem­ber 25th through September 26th:

Index­ing Fire­fox 3.0 Book­marks with Quick­sil­ver — Hack­Col­lege — Student-Powered Lifehacking –

I guess this is what hap­pens when you are utterly addicted to a dead soft­ware project. You have to keep hack­ing to keep using.

If you won­der why you […]