December 2009
29 posts
Merry Christmas to me. http://twitpic.com/vbo64
Dec 26th
Finally finished The Dig. Only took 16 years. Now on to the Space Quest series, with some Left 4 Dead 2 sprinkled in. Yay vacation.
Dec 26th
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qe1... →
… aaaaaand this is why you won’t see the iPhone on verizon any time soon. They demand too much control.
Dec 22nd
Oooo, Instapaper got an update. Dig it @marcoarment
Dec 22nd
Dec 19th
On vacation for the next 2 weeks. Yay comp-time!
Dec 18th
Blessed are conservative in Bible translation -... →
The project, an online effort to create a Bible suitable for contemporary conservative sensibilities, claims Jesus’ quote is a disputed addition abetted by liberal biblical scholars, even if it appears in some form in almost every translation of the Bible. ‘Cause if anyone is the definition of ‘liberal’ it’s 17th Century Protestants & Catholics.
Dec 18th
Readers by Author « Lauren Leto →
Elmore Leonard People who know how to perform a “Michigan left”. But I like Elmore Leonard. Oh… wait.
Dec 16th
Dec 16th
Pastebot | Tapbots →
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful, and at $2 that’s a steal.
Dec 15th
I took it and so should you—The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2009: http://aneventapart.com/survey2009
Dec 15th
Post and Read via Twitter API — Blog —... →
Effing genius. Wheels turning…
Dec 14th
“Now there was a lot of demand for that record — so much that the plant that...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs  : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T
Dec 12th
Insight: It's never really a redesign until you... →
Umm… what?
Dec 12th
Dec 11th
Dec 11th
Ugly Sweater Day at work. Let’s Get Festive! http://brizzly.com/pic/OEO
Dec 10th
…she pushes a baby girl in a pink carriage. And I’m thinking that must be her sister. That must be her sister, right? #ihearteels
Dec 9th
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My biggest problem with the Open Source...
… of which I am a member, is our general inability to mark anything as “stable”, “feature-complete” or “1.0”. Case in point, the last stable release of the wildly popular PHP module APC was from May 2008. Really? All the work between then and no one thought it was good enough to mark as stable? How many 10-15 year old projects out there are only at...
Dec 9th
Ever wonder what statenews.com's backend looks... →
Dec 8th
Zend_Filter_StripTags: Friend, Foe, or Security... →
Indeed. HTMLPurifier is what allowed me to turn HTML processing back on in Gryphon 2.x. Previous versions of Gryph just stripped out all HTML because it was just too hard to make sure you got everything.
Dec 7th
RCA student radically improves the UK plug | ICON... →
The show-stopper at this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show was a plug. About time someone tackled the UK’s clunky electrics. Very, very, very clever.
Dec 7th
Just found out that our Volkswagen settlement has finally be approved by the administrator. Woo! Now we wait.
Dec 4th
RT @whitneymae: You win this time, Freep, but the State News will be back. http://bit.ly/91vi1p
Dec 4th
Public Knowledge Concerned about Comcast-NBCU... →
I, for one, welcome our new cable overlords. Really, though, I thought there was a law about vertically integrated monopolies.
Dec 3rd
Wonkette : To Complement Your Freedom Tray: The... →
No, that really a good idea. You can use it to… to… Hmmm. Nope, that’s a bad idea.
Dec 3rd
Dec 2nd
Had a great daddy/daughter moment wherein I introduced Molly to the wonder that is sliced apples and peanut butter.
Dec 1st
Photographic evidence http://twitpic.com/rpqcg
Dec 1st