That’s right, my laptop is dead. It’s a little over a year old and it died on Labor Day during a spirited coding session. I was coding away when suddenly the computer shut off. I checked the power cord – yep, plugged in. I tried the power button – no response. [...]
My wife recently ordered stamps online through the USPS. They arrived after several weeks delay in a giant envelope. Here is a picture of the envelope and the contents. Ridiculous.
Yep, my home server’s hard drive crashed about a week ago. As you can see, the site is back up and in tip-top condition. In fact, it may be even better than it was previously. Well, that’s not really hard to imagine is it?
I have moved to a hosted solution through Hosting [...]
Recently, several people told me it was unprofessional to reveal your pay rate. Doesn’t this seem like antiquated thinking? Maybe this goes back to the open, honest communication thing…
I believe that jealousy, resentment, anger, etc. about differences in pay are a direct result of keeping them secret. When they’re secret there’s no [...]
Lately I’ve been wondering what the hell happened to the old me. Something has insinuated itself into my being and changed me; changed the way I think and feel. I don’t want to sound too cliché here, but it all started 10 months ago when I began learning Ruby on Rails.
At that time, [...]
I have a new favorite application for the Mac called Delicious Library. It is an application for cataloging, managing, and sharing your books, music, games, and movies. It integrates with iCal and the AddressBook to make thing easier. It also uses your iSight to scan the bar code on the back of [...]
As I read my blog feeds, I will routinely save posts that I don’t have time to read thoroughly, but would like to in the future. Then I come back later (sometimes much later) and read them.
I just came across an article by Dick Costolo titled simply Company Culture. He briefly examines why [...]
An inspiring story about pursuing your ideas. The end is not yet written…
I just read an article by Loren Baker called 13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck. I don’t know much about it, but the theory is that search engines will look for nofollow on a link and not count it as a valid link to content. Thus spammers do not get any search engine [...]
I recently read a blog post by Alex Barnett about the phrase “I’m confused.” His take was that people who say this are actually saying something like “I’m smarter than you, and what you just said doesn’t make any sense to me.”
Uh… okay. Sounds like a case of inferiority complex to me. [...]
I'm a pragmatist, an idea generator and a doer of deeds that need doing. I may have an unhealthy obsession with pirates and coffee. I also enjoy making work for other people. Get to know me and you'll see what I mean.
