2008
Shocking, Sharpening
Unbelievable for a Reality TV hater, but I want to talk about Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Such a revelation. Both Fox and BBCAmerica have spent a ton of time making Gordon Ramsay look like a gaping asshole. I finally tuned in like you do passing a car wreck …
2008
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 …
2008
Painfully Delicious
Quicktime 1.0 Development team channels Michael Jackson.
2008
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 …
2008
2008
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 …
2008
2008
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 …
2008
2008
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 …