When I started at my previous job, we were small-time. Sites were ASP or (horrors) ColdFusion talking to an Access database, and even that was only for fancy clients who wanted a record of the Contact Us form submissions from their site. We …
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I didn’t make it for ‘81. ‘82. “Beat LA” is where I got my start. In ‘84 I was still young enough that I wasn’t allowed to stay up and watch the pre-Championship playoffs. I think this had more to …
read moreDearest Self,
When designing and building a system, don’t just treat the base-level objects as black boxes (“as dumb as they can be, but no dumber”), but the modules they roll up into should be black boxes as well. That way, when you get pulled off progress …
read moreI’m coming to (near?) the end of what can only charitably be called a “difficult” project. Unfortunately, I don’t think I will be working with any of the parties involved in the future. For future readers and my present sanity, this feels …
read moreIn the interest of patching up, E from the eels has invited the President to a concert (or three). No word from W’s lady-in-waiting yet.
read moreAs part of my personal Moratorium Project, I’m asking all respected, older male authors to immediately cease publication of erotic passages in their works. Future Mailers, I can’t have it, you greying literary lions with pot bellies and your remaining hair in the …
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