1. True Love: A Play in One Act

    True Love: A Play in One Act

    OUTDOORS - NIGHT - FENWAY PARK

    A nice April night, game is in the middle innings, Kevin Youkilis coming up to bat.

    Michelle: After this at bat, I’m going to the bathroom, no matter what Youk does. Me: What if he cries out your …

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  2. Week 132

    Week 132

    Well, the Devil made me do it the first time/ Second time I done it on my own.” Billy Joe Shaver, “Black Rose”

    Never got around to the last couple of weekly updates. There wasn’t much of interest, technology-wise, and they burned the hell out of me …

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  3. Week 129

    Week 129

    There’s no sense in a man picking out the worst name he can find for everything.”
    Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

    On Wednesday, I attended the NH UPA presentation on focus groups. I spent a lot of the time wondering about the effect of group dynamics on end …

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  4. Week 128

    Week 128

    Not much changed from last week, mainly working to push the social networking site out the door (while working on a proposal for another Django/ Pinax project). This week did mark the first time I actually got a Fabric script working (not that it’s hard, just that …

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  5. Week 127

    Week 127

    (idea cribbed from BERG, week count done by Wolfram Alpha because I am too lazy)

    ”[T]he beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the happy conclusion that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest.” The Third Policeman*

    Mix …

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  6. On Optimization

    On Optimization

    It’s strange what you can get used to: the current social network site I’m working on has a page with 216 database queries on it. Used to be I’d get the hives if I hit a dozen queries on a page.

    216! Did you know …

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  7. My Party Label: My Party Label Order Form

    My Party Label: My Party Label Order Form

    2010-02-13

    Turned manual email order process into an online form.

    Tired of accepting sometimes invalid orders over email, My Party Label came to me to create a form that contained all the information My Party Label needs to fulfill an order. The …

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