Archive for March, 2009



Book!

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Penny Arcade nails it. I keep hearing new Kindle owners say the same thing; they've done much more reading since their Kindle arrived.  Well yeah, of course you're reading more.  You have a new toy, and that's all it does.  I did a lot of baking right after I got my ...

In Search of Version Control

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Brent Simmons is looking for the perfect version control system, and has this complaint about Git: When I’m finished working on my laptop and I commit my changes, they’re not available on my desktop. I have to take the extra step of pushing the changes. And then, back at my desktop, I ...

A Poor Man’s Email

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

From PCWorld, Eric Schmidt on Twitter: Schmidt praised Twitter as another way to communicate online, but he also called the service "a poor man's e-mail" and wondered whether it will remain a standalone service or become a feature of e-mail systems. Spoken like someone who has no idea what Twitter is or ...

The Denverer

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Alex King and I put this together for his Carrington presentation at WordCamp Denver (which was awesome, by the way).  It's supposed to be a joke, but with the recent death of the Rocky Mountain News, I'm seriously considering turning it into something real.

Analyzing a Typical HP URL

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Corey Gilmore breaks down one of those god-awful long URLs.  In 2009, there is no excuse for this.  It was barely excusable in 2001.