Growing up with Guns
I have no interest in guns. I’ve never owned anything more powerful than a BB gun. I’ve never been hunting. Growing up, I was more of an exception to the norm – people around me …
Caleb
In middle school, there was a boy named Caleb who would routinely eat things off the cafeteria floor, claiming it helped his immune system. He never got sick so maybe he was right. During lunch one …
Moderation Amplification
A few nights ago, I came across Tom Coates’ post titled Social whitelisting with OpenID… about how to handle moderating an online forum when the amount that needs to be moderated …
Thoughts on Pagination
A common navigation pattern on websites is what I call “chunked pagination”: each page has a predetermined number of pieces of content on them. Page 1 shows items 1-10, page 2 shows 11-20, …
A natural progression...
Yep, the import is slow. I know and I haven’t done much optimizing in the code. The Route I’m going is No Tool A Tool A fast Tool And I’m currently working on 2. – From …
The Front Line
So, Yahoo messed up today. They’ve messed up other days, too, but this was an especially red-letter day amongst other red-letter days, and this is one that has me ticked off. For reasons I …
The Code Behind the Yearbook
This is lifted from the README to the github repository. I decided to take all the blog posts, Twitter messages, and Flickr images I made this year, combine them, typeset them, and then get it printed …
Dipstick
My mom called to let me know that they had to put Dipstick down today due to the kind of things that happen to cats when they get old. She actually ended up being 14 years old, which was older than I …
They Used to Pour Fire off a Mountaintop
I was on a wiki walk when I came across this fascinating, but long gone, summertime event that used to happen inside Yosemite. So, they used to pour still-burning embers off the top of Glacier Point …
A New Razor
As a Christmas gift, Meghan gave me a new razor, one of the “old-fashioned” safety razors, complete with a shaving brush and soap that smells vaguely of tobacco. I had actually been eyeing …