March, 2006
Mar 202006
Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!
Mar 182006
If I Touch It, It Will Break
I have a working prototype of my MediaWiki TextMate bundle. By this I mean I can login to Wikipedia, open my own userpage, make changes to it, and save those changes, all within TextMate. I’d try doing something else, but I’m too scared it’ll break.
OK. First, the upside: I was able to do all […]
FOR INCLUDING a 60-second piece of silence on their album, the Planets were threatened with a lawsuit by the estate of composer John Cage, which said they’d ripped off his silent work 4′33″. The Planets countered that the estate failed to specify which 60 of the 273 seconds in Cage’s piece had been pilfered.
Mar 172006
JavaScript in TextMate
A screenshot of code I’m writing for a huge update to my Azureus Dashboard Widget. You know you’re writing good JavaScript when your IDE looks like a bowl of Froot Loops.
Democrats, meanwhile, continued to demonstrate their unwavering commitment to vacillation by reacting to Sen. Feingold’s proposal to formally censure Bush the same way my cats react to a vacuum cleaner.
Mar 162006
Orkut is a fascinating experiment in what happens when the developing world hits internet nerds. Basically the thing totally exploded in Brazil [like 20% of the country is on it] and the population there just started spamming every person and group in Portugese. It also never has really implemented any needed features. Nowadays I only log in to delete friend requests from guys named Paulo.
Mar 152006
When Jeff and I ran into him in the elevator on our way out on the first night, the inimitable Shaun Inman described the breakfast buffet at our hotel as “breakfast with your blogroll”, and he was right. Our hotel was one of the closest to the convention center and it felt like “everybody” was there. It was pretty surreal to walk downstairs every morning and eat scrambled eggs with your RSS feeds.
I made a fairly large step forward in my tumblelog plugin today — I wrote a WordPress plugin that lets me specify custom key/value pairs from within the content area, which will be extremely useful when I start posting from an external client. It also lets me define specific metadata for certain post types — a quotation has an author and an optional URL, for example — which lets me move more of the markup into post-type-specific templates.
Mar 142006
- Regarding the “shaking” behavior of the OS X login screen when an incorrect password is typed in
- Tom Merritt (moderator)
- (in jest) Couldn’t people misinterpret that and think their monitors are just broken?
- Mark Ligameri (former Longhorn UI guy)
- No, they’re Mac users. They’d blame themselves first.
Tron
Bryan Veloso’s Avalonstar Bowling Extravaganza was a hearty success last night. I have sore muscles, some of which I didn’t even know were used for bowling, but ’tis most definitely worth it. At left, Tron celebrates the act of striking pins.
