Painfully Obvious.

I’m about to become what I secretly roll my eyes at: a Ruby on Rails evangelist.

A while back I wrote about my Azureus Widget and explained why it wasn’t yet listed at DashboardWidgets.com. DBW had a policy to reject any submitted widgets associated with P2P networks. They have since changed that policy and have invited me to resubmit my widget, which I will likely do…

From The Elements of Typographic Style, my new favorite reference volume: Most writing and typography … remain contentedly abstract, like a theater script or a musical score. The script of Macbeth does not need to be bloodstained and spattered with tears; it needs to be legible. And the score of…

Because the Something Awful Forums are such a monstrously huge online community, they’ve had to deal with all sorts of bizarre user‐management scenarios. Banned members returning over and over to annoy people; members stirring up drama, swearing to leave, leaving, then coming back later; and, yes, members dying, through causes…

What do you do when it looks increasingly likely your favorite team will skip town? Well, I’ve been eating ice cream and playing Xbox, but I’d probably be doing that anyway. Actually, tonight I stumbled upon Wikipedia’s article on Saints owner Tom Benson and decided I’d add a long section…

I swear I’m never going to feel like an adult. I don’t think adulthood exists outside others’ perceptions of you. Come September 1 I’ll be unemployed. Or, rather, self‐employed. The grant that pays my salary here at the Dana Center has not been renewed. I’ve known for about a month,…

DashboardWidgets.com (and now Apple) rejects my Azureus widget because they don’t want to “promote piracy.” I humbly encourage them to promote functionality.