January 2008
35 posts
My son just suggested that we dress up as jobs & woz next halloween. Proud moment.
December 2007
42 posts
Batter Blaster →
What sounds like an awesome insult turns out instead to be proof that our civilization is at its end.
Why I started keeping a daily “one-sentence... →
If you’re thinking resolutions, this might be a spiffy one.
JavaScript Functions are Variables →
old news, but powerful stuff
“It is not necessary to avoid geeky words when your audience is composed of...”
– Reg, talking to a bunch of geeks about a geeky issue we were geeking out about.
are there books about animals that have pictures of code on their covers?
I have decided that divs and spans are cheating, and am only using semantic markup from now on. We’ll see how long THAT lasts.
Typical Scrum Transcript →
It’s true. We DO need emotional content. And tea.
can any browser suck worse at animation than Firefox?
does anyone else around here die a little bit inside whenever they have to start Parallels, or is that just me?
spent WAY too much time agonizing over a blow-my-own-horn bio I was asked to write. My horn is sore.
“Why do they bother showing Timothy Dalton when there are so many GOOD James Bond...”
– Jen. Yup, I married well.
Keeping JavaScript Dependencies At Bay →
Combine this with a little unobtrusive javascript mojo, and you’re in business.
Fluid 0.3 Released with custom icon support →
Go, Ben! Now if we could make a multi-tabbed Fluid app, so I could have a “communicator” application that had Campfire AND Gmail in it, I’d be in hog heaven.
Life is good. Just survived my first ikea store.
can I tell you how much I want a Strida bike, even though there’s no way to look undouchey riding one?
Jen logged her 500th mile of training today. She’s awesome. I, on the other hand, have a fat ass.
so we got my non-techy sister-in-law an iPod Shuffle for Christmas. Jen has spent 40 minutes on the phone explaining sync with her, with …
Just found out that my iPod Touch has a built-in RSS reader that promises to be better than the farty new Google mobile reader. Any feed URL entered into Mobile Safari automatically gets parsed. Bad ass. Experimenting with exposing my Google Reader list as a public feed (so I can still use the sweet “subscribe with google” mojo when I’m in Firefox on my laptop), and then...
Pee-Wee's Big Return →
Depp as the Luckiest Boy in the World? Not sure HOW to feel about that.
Fluid →
Free Site Specific Browser maker for Mac OS X Leopard — nice lil’ tool.
Evidently the squirrel did NOT find his way back out of the walls last week. It’s a little ripe in here.
Pro JavaScript Design Patterns →
Is it too late, Santa?
Secrets of the Rails Console Ninjas →
YOU need this. I need this. Grandma needs this.
Battlestar Galactica units →
It’s three centons past a buick.
Somebody should sell a Wii controller with a Faraday coil in it. One step closer to flying cars.
teresa brewer is proof that the terrorists may have had a point.
happiness is hearing Al Roker pronounce it “Lie-Nucks,” and seeing my wife cringe.
LONG day of wrong-tree-barking and deadendery. I think I’m on to something now, though.
what if nothing is wrong?
24 ways →
Back again. Now it IS Christmas.