I’ve been in love with Ernest Hemingway’s books since I was about 19 years old. The gripping, powerful and terse style was much better than anything I’ve ever read. Hemingway often cited his first job in journalism, still as a teenager, at the Kansas City Star, and the Star’s Style Guide, as the roots of his short and to-the-point style: _Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.…

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If you’re opening a new restaurant and want to spread the word but don’t have a big marketing budget - what do you do? When I got back home tonight, I found this envelope in my mailbox: It is a hand written envelope reading: Some neighbors steal your paper and some invite you to lunch Now, it’s not a printed envelope using a handwriting-like font, it’s an actual hand written message.…

Check out my new blog at http://www.onsocialgames.com I will post there about everything related to social games - development, design, marketing, monetization etc. Help spread the word. p.s. Being silly will still continue right here, on pashabitz.com…

Got a lot done today: Domain - check. Server up and running - check. First Facebook app created and running on server - check. FB API calls working - check. MySQL running on the server - check. App connects to DB - check. Bunch of new technology. Feels good to open VS after a long break.…

http://wow-amazing-3d-and-cg-and-Michelle-Rodriguez-o-w.ow/ http://cool-we-live-in-a-compter-program-i-can-do-whatever-i-wa.nt/?plus=awesome-cinematography http://holy-shit-bruce-willis-was-dead-all-along-i-have-to-watch-it-from-the-beginning-but-shit-i-am-in-a-movie-theat.er/ http://kill-bi.ll/ (Domains available, contact for price)…

I present to you, my newest startup: ** The URL Shortener URL Shortener** http://1 -> http://bit.ly http://2 -> http://goo.gl http://3 -> http://youtu.be http://4 -> http://su.pr So much joy for so little URL typing.…

Looking at the genius xkcd comic Gravity Wells got me thinking about the extreme sports of the future. Mars’ moon Deimos’ escape velocity is only about 20 km/h (12mph) and can be escaped using a bicycle and a ramp. Mars’ other moon Phobos has a slightly stronger gravitational pull with an escape velocity of about 40 km/h (25mph). We have pretty much exhausted the possibilities of extreme sports that can be done here on earth (a.…

Soon after publishing my last post “Google’s Starfish” here, I was very (unpleasantly) surprised to discover the whole post appear as a “note” on my Facebook page. I wouldn’t have even noticed that, unless someone post a comment on that post, inside Facebook. In the past, I did, on my own will, configure the RSS of pashabitz.com to appear on my Facebook. But still, my natural reaction was to get extremely pissed, even though no explicit rule was probably broken here by Facebook.…

Reading “The Starfish and the Spider” now. The book is about how decentralized organizations and entities (the “starfish”) without clear hierarchy and leadership are equipped to defeat classic, centralized organizations (the “spider”). One of the first examples given in the book are the p2p music sharing sites that defeated the big record labels. I immediately started thinking about the centralized giants of software and the internet, and who their “starfish” were.…