Whenever I Go Away, I Want to Start Anew…
There’s a thrill for me in the initial exploration of an idea, the initial design of a piece of software or web site, and in learning how to use new tools or...
Recent posts
Omnious Sounding
Yahoo seems to have changed the layout of Yahoo Movies recently. I was looking at what was playing locally and saw this: It sounds ominous. If I don’t...
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
In the Category of “Just No”
Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never go...
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
Doomed
Fox News is the most trusted TV news source, with 39.3% of respondents to an IFC survey saying they trusted it most. [From Poll: Interne...
So You’re Having a Benefit Event…
So - the day of the event - you get a call asking what restaurants will be there. … The caller mentions to you that he tried to email quite a while ago but ...
Free Ice Cream on Election Day
Back to the important things: Ben & Jerry’s is giving away free cones from 5PM to 8PM today (election day). http://www.benjerry.com/features/i_voted/
Futurama: Bender’s Game
"Futurama" unfortunately never got the love that "The Simpsons" gets, but I'm still grateful for the fact that Fox gave the show another chance in the form...
WebDev: jQuery, JSON, IE and Caching
When you bookmark a listing the icon changes from a heart with a plus sign to a heart with a minus sign, the count of the number of times the the listing was...
Offline jQuery Documentation for MacOS X
I don’t always have reliable online access when I’m coding - in particular, I was on a bus today for a couple of hours and didn’t always have Internet access...
LJ Crossposting
I have a bunch of half-written things that I haven’t finished because I haven’t been happy with the state of cross-posting between this blog and Livejournal ...