General
- 02.Oct.2008
- On the VP debate.
I’m sick to my stomach.
I just watched the majority of the VP debate on CNN HD. I can’t begin to express how pissed I am about it; the myriad of assumptions by both parties and by the media is just….astounding. ASTOUNDING.
Where to begin?
- 13.Jun.2008
- Franken for Senate: a commentary.
“unqualified, unfit and unprepared to be a United States senator”? Because he is comedic writer along the lines of Mark Twain?
- 09.Jan.2008
- Technical difficulties.
A note about the travails of switching hosting services.
Music
- 04.Apr.2009
- Memories…
A blast from the past for me; throwing old band stuff out into the wild can be fun!
- 09.Jun.2008
- The 25 questions, part 2.
A follow-up to the first set of responses to Glenn Branca’s the 25 questions.
- 03.Jan.2008
- Holy mother of G*d.
…the music that the major record companies promote is unimaginative, rehashed from previous years and is a seriously stagnant cultural idiom.
Code
- 07.Mar.2008
- un-user friendly.
One of the biggest issues with Open Source software is exactly how unpolished it tends to be; too many developers seem to never realize that they aren’t the only ones who want to use it.
- 11.Feb.2007
- Cross discipline can be a good thing.
Too many developers are too lazy; sometimes it can be a good thing to take ideas from completely different sources, and incorporate them into your workflow.
- 09.Feb.2007
- On program design and more.
As a developer, don’t become dogmatic about particular design styles.
Whatever
- 16.Nov.2007
- I love this.
It’s about trust. If you are unwilling to sign your name on something you post to the Internet, then you are just contributing to the increasing white noise that is the Interwebs(tm).
- 12.Nov.2006
- That’s not something I want to even think about, let alone see.
Amazing how…”imaginative”…some comment spam can really be. And not in a good way.
- 22.Sep.2006
- On the cost of recovery
So much for the preservation of old blog posts.
JavaScript
- 09.Sep.2008
- Bringing typography to the Open Web
Normally I don’t give myself a pat on the back but I’m pretty proud of what I just pulled—providing a way of using the SVG Font specification in any browser…
- 21.Jan.2007
- On implementing language constructs.
Some personal factoids about what I use when coding Javascript—and more importantly, what I don’t.
Quote of the Day
- 15.Mar.2007
- Quote of the day.
I love Overheard in New York.
- 30.Nov.2006
- On developers that think they know better than…
I don’t know of a more accurate statement when it comes to developers with an over-inflated sense of self-worth.
- 30.Nov.2006
- The Internet is not a truck
…it’s a freaking freight train packed full of idiots.
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