William M. Hartnett

Subversion For Writers
Revision control for writers. Via thescoop.
(tags: subversion howto writing)

Making Your Money Last as Long as You Live - New York Times
“Between personal factors such as one’s retiring age and such economic variations as stock market performance, the deaccumulation phase of retirement requires prudence.”
(tags: retirement finance nyt)

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What happens when you offer buyouts to half of your 1,326 employees? Why, you get your red ink-bleeding behind featured in a bumper edition of Paper View Monday, of course. (Is anyone in charge of these business failures ever actually going to be held responsible, or will the same chumps remain in charge until they [...]

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Neighborhood of the week is Leisureville in Boynton Beach.
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Michael Jordan may soar into Palm Beach County golf community - Palm Beach Post
Michael Jordan: Future fellow Jupiter resident. I’ll just pop over to his house with a tray of cookies when he moves in. After I evade the armed guards at the security gate, of course.
(tags: jupiter pbpost michael-jordan)

Vanilla Ice hires ex-’Apprentice’ for his [...]

Matt Waite posed a good question in the comments to yesterday’s post about making our investment in the neighborhood boundary data that underlies Backyard Post pay off. Basically, when it comes to such detailed information, do I worry about being too small? Too micro? My thoughts on that topic sprawl ever so slightly, so better [...]

Guaging a Collider’s Odds of Creating a Black Hole - New York Times
Whom can we trust to do hard-headed calculations to prove that a scientific experiment will not lead to the end of the world?
(tags: science nyt geekery)

Drive-by surfers peril news sites - Reflections of a Newsosaur
If drive-by surfers continue to generate a growing proportion [...]

There’s some pretty cool stuff in the just-released version 4.3 of Google Earth, just as there were lots of interesting treats rolled out last week in the latest version of Microsoft’s Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D. Without a doubt, though, my favorite addition to Google Earth is the inclusion of imagery acquisition date. Just [...]

Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: Backyard Post now WAY searchier than before. Also recently posted over that way, a note about browser support. Hint: It’s time to upgrade from IE 6.

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Since we privately rolled out Backyard Post a few weeks ago, I’ve received quite a few questions about our neighborhood boundary data. As in, where we got it. That’s yet another thing about which I meant to be clearer in my introductory post, but the answer is simple enough: I made it.
More precisely, I made [...]