I've been on LiveJournal a long time. I joined in October of 2000, more than eleven years ago. I've posted more than 2,000 entries. If you go to my profile page, you'll see that my user ID (17832) is in the low five
Sometimes as I glance through my website's server logs, I see the anonymous messages people have sent through my little Scrabble-izer. Here's one of the sweetest I've seen, which just caught my eye: If you were a Scrabble tile, you'd be a
I love Google for its geeky in-jokes. If you haven't noticed this one before, search for "recursion" and see what the result page offers as a suggestion under Did you mean. I'm also reminded of Inglourious Basterds, which I saw yesterday morning, in which
This may be heresy, but I just don't feel as much compulsion to blog now that it's my own time I'm stealing as I did when it was my employers'.
A technical question for you techie writer types out there. Do you use version-control software to keep a repository of your work? If so, what? What platform do you run it on? What do you like? What don't you? I know CVS pretty well from my programmer days,
After I brought my new laptop home yesterday, what was the first thing I had to do? Of course:
I will have more thoughts to offer on this milestone later, but for now let me just say that my job has ended. Like a wounded deer it kept dragging on, but at long last, finally, my last day working steadily as the senior software developer and architect for (the
Netflix is going to eliminate account profiles this September. If you don't know, that's the feature that allows you to maintain separate DVD queues under one account. YMMV, but to me Netflix is taking a giant step backward with this move in terms of serving its
When you absolutely, positively have to be a smug asshole to your friends and love ones one last time, there's: YouveBeenLeftBehind.com In a nutshell, the site queues up messages from you to your infidel friends that will be dispatched after the Rapture. And how does the site
Last April I wrote the first draft of a story called "Care and Feeding of Your Piano." It's a short, humorous piece written entirely as excerpts from the interactive instruction manual for a bioengineered piano*. Armed with some suggestions from my writing group, I sat in
Any Chicago folks here going to TECH cocktail this Thursday? Time Out Chicago says: [F]or Frank Gruber and Eric Olson, no element of TECH cocktail, their semi-annual networking party, is too grand. And this could explain the success of the free event for tech-industry workers, which holds its seventh
One day last week I cleared out my spam filter at exactly noon and checked it again at noon the next day. I wanted to see how much spam I would receive in a 24-hour span. 890 emails. O why do the spam gods not turn their bountiful gazes elsewhere?
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