This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.
I'm the founder of Planypus, the place to share your plans!
Accessible, manageable, virtualized application stacks ready to download or deploy to the cloud!
Reach me at yan at pritzker.ws
Yesterday I relaunched Pritzker Photo, as a home for my portrait photography in San Francisco. I’m starting to take requests for portrait sessions on weekends and some weeknights. If you need a new headshot for your facebook page, dating site profile, to promote your business or creative work, talk to me! 100% satisfaction or your [...]
This blog is now proudly hosted on slicehost.com! It seems somewhere in the last couple days, bluehost touched something on my shared hosting account that caused php-mysql to break, and this blog was displaying a message about this breakage.
This was the last straw for me. I previously wrote about how bluehost would not admit [...]
The iPad is not a general purpose device. It is not a smaller version of a regular computer, and it should not be.
It doesn’t run all my programs! So what? I’ve seen netbooks running Windows on their tiny screens - the user experience is awful.
General purpose apps run on a smaller screen just [...]
This is going to be one of those thinking-out-loud, trying to justify dumping half a grand on a new toy posts. So bear with me :) How I plan to use the iPad…
Watching movies and surfing in bed without annoying MBP fan noise and overheating.
Taking it with me instead of the MBP when I go [...]
Yesterday 37 Signals announced they were hiring a new designer. How did Jason land a job at a place hundreds of designers are dying to work at? He didn’t just send them a resume, he started a conversation by creating a tailor-made website just for 37 Signals. Not only did the site explain exactly why [...]
Hulu is testing a new feature which lets you select whether you want the regular 30 second spots spaced throughout the show you watch, or one long (2 minute) clip from one sponsor. Here’s why I think this is a great move:
30 second spots interrupt you right as you’re watching a show so your annoyance [...]
I recently finished Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers , a really interesting look at some of the most well known success stories including Bill Gates, the Beatles, and Jewish lawyers, among others. The book covers a range of topics but one of the central premises is that what we perceive is talent is more like an affinity [...]
I’m starting a photo project this month that will investigate the concept of identity by looking at your hobbies. I want to take two shots of each person. The first will illustrate you in the personality of your favorite hobby. Whether it involves a particular costume, set, environment, props, we will capture this identity. The [...]
I just finished the new Seth Godin book, Tribes. The book talks about the idea that humans like to cluster around ideas, and they like to have someone to follow, and that a great leader is a facilitator, who helps connect the members of a community and fosters communication.
When I was telling my friend about [...]
I’ve noticed people have been saying things like “I am cloud computing because my mail is now on gmail ZOMG”. Storing your mails on the internets is not cloud computing, it’s just online storage. Uploading pics from your phone directly to the web is not cloud computing. Google docs is not cloud computing. Just storing [...]
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