Humorless

I always take a peek at the people who add me on Twitter to see if it’s someone I know, someone from the area (I’m interested to see how meatspace communities can spring up around virtual ones; hashtags is a great way to create brand-new communities on-the-fly …

Painfully Delicious

Quicktime 1.0 Development team channels Michael Jackson.

Dear Dog,

I know summer’s coming and so, apparently, do you. However, I’m not willing to even nominate this as spring yet, so let’s hold off on the getting up at 5:30 for a while. Also, that deal where we let you in the bed so …

Usability, Defined

What a Database Can Say About You

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 …

Video on Flickr

Because, why not?

A Brief History of My Celtics Fandom

Pre-History

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 …

Put Me in the 80%

Where do I sign up for local weather alerts?

Design Reminder

Dearest 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 …

God, What Won't You Do?

I’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 …