Aug 7 2010
A new version of blogquotes has been published this morning. Not a lot of new features, but at least the wheels are turning again and some annoying bugs have been addressed. - bugfix: adding quotes with some types of punctuation caused page errors - bugfix: unicode characters in quotes caused errors when pulling those quotes out for includes - bugf…
Jun 30 2010
I can see it now. Homeless, slightly demented and jabbering about inane details of imaginary characters. This will be my life in six months from now after suffering through a debilitating addiction. An addiction to the ridiculous time suck that is world of warcraft (aka world of walking). I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I have now played throu…
May 30 2010
No posts in five months! Almost exactly the same time I’ve been in a new position at work. Disturbing trends, this completely predates just the last six months…. I’ve moved from being a team lead to being the head of our R&D group. I now have as many teams (7) as I did people to think about, and a whole new world of politics, strategy and planning.…
Dec 14 2009
I am growing more and more annoyed at the Apple's and the Adobe's of the world who are constantly interrupting my work to tell me that there are updates waiting for me to install. Why do I have to manage this? Yes I know that I can go in there and tweak the settings so that I don't get annoyed... but why should I even have to do that? I would need…
Dec 5 2009
One of the biggest lessons I think I’ve learned over the past few years is that you have to be very careful with what you make easy to do in a software system. When you are working within a preexisting system, it is very hard to work effectively outside the bounds of that system. Whether you are limited by time constraints, peer pressure, political…
Sep 23 2009
LRO does it again, water on the moon! That’s so cool! NASA is important people, we’re laying the foundation for future generations here. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090923-moon-water-discovery.html And of course finding water is not the same as finding lakes, but imagine the potential for fuel sources and or human sustenance. Water is dam…
Sep 2 2009
Saw this on reddit tonight, hanselman has updates his legendary tools list for 2009. So what was going to be an evening of actual coding is slowing turning into an evening of trying out cool new tools that have made his list. (I’m writing this blog post in windows Live Writer after seeing it in the list) But what’s an hour or two of my time compar…
Sep 1 2009
I remain a huge fan of projects like LRO, and personally still believe that the disbelievers are crackpots but I also have to admit to being a little underwhelmed by the photos listed here on NASA’s site for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html Still, I’m excited “we’re” (go N…
Sep 1 2009
I work with someone who has spent a few years working for an online poker company who shall remain nameless. This company was responsible for a poker platform that supported both their own branded poker offering as well as being an engine for other companies who would layer on their branding. My colleague played an important role in taking their fa…
Sep 1 2009
Came across this list of “anti-patterns” on wikipedia tonight. I’m tempted just to copy and paste the contents here but that would make me feel dirty. Definitely a good list though and something worth reminding ourselves of every once in a while when thinking about the systems we build. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern