December 2009
29 posts
Merry Christmas to me. http://twitpic.com/vbo64
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.
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… aaaaaand this is why you won’t see the iPhone on verizon any time soon. They demand too much control.
Oooo, Instapaper got an update. Dig it @marcoarment
On vacation for the next 2 weeks. Yay comp-time!
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.
Readers by Author « Lauren Leto →
Elmore Leonard
People who know how to perform a “Michigan left”.
But I like Elmore Leonard. Oh… wait.
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Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful, and at $2 that’s a steal.
I took it and so should you—The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2009: http://aneventapart.com/survey2009
Post and Read via Twitter API — Blog —... →
Effing genius.
Wheels turning…
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
Insight: It's never really a redesign until you... →
Umm… what?
Ugly Sweater Day at work. Let’s Get Festive! http://brizzly.com/pic/OEO
…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
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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...
Ever wonder what statenews.com's backend looks... →
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.
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.
Just found out that our Volkswagen settlement has finally be approved by the administrator. Woo! Now we wait.
RT @whitneymae: You win this time, Freep, but the State News will be back. http://bit.ly/91vi1p
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.
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.
Had a great daddy/daughter moment wherein I introduced Molly to the wonder that is sliced apples and peanut butter.
Photographic evidence http://twitpic.com/rpqcg