This is a Moveon.org prank video thing, where they stick your name and photo (from facebook) in a fake news story about Glen Beck. It’s been done before — but when my utterly ridiculous Facebook profile photo showed up in the video it cracked me up.
My profile photo, note the phantom lights and Newcastle [...]
So the brother of a friend of ours was killed in an auto accident yesterday morning. This is awful, but the local paper in his area thought the article on their web site needed head on collision CLIP ART as an illustration. What the fucking fuck?
Which made me curious. Is there tragedy clip art [...]
I had a real adventure last night, installing Windows 7. I ran into a problem so infuriating, and yet so completely boneheaded and ridiculous that I had to laugh. It’s described here. In essence, if you bought the EDU $29.95 Windows 7 Home Premium from Microsoft, the download file won’t actually work [...]
Something has been irking me that probably should not. To wit: electronic messages that don’t say anything but “That’s Excellent!” or “Nice job!” or “Happy Birthday!”
Maybe it’s rude of me to be irked, but messages that have information other than that seem kind of pointless. They are, in effect, like the ‘ACK’ in communications protocol, [...]
I had an interesting talk a couple weeks ago with my brother about his job at Digg, and Diggs interaction with the people at Google. Without going into the industry gossip, the takeaway from the chat is that above all else, Google values algorithms. Their business model, the companies they’re interested in acquiring, is [...]
So for ‘fun’ I ran http://www.cornwarning.com/Tickertape through the W3C Markup Validator.
Actually, the thing I was concerned about is that the page looked fucked up in IE8, and presumably other browsers. Haven’t rechecked it yet, since I’m on a Mac at work. But at a minimum it found a bunch of small coding errors. No [...]
I figured this out yesterday, and it is the sort of thing a lot of people would like to do and haven’t figured out yet.
First off, this is the audio player:
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
and you can read up on it at the AudioPlayer website. It’s very easy to integrate in [...]
I’ve now gotten three unsolicited requests for help setting up websites. This is flattering of course, and you know, but other than general figure-shit-out skills developed as a programmer for 25 years, I’ve very little web-specific knowlege — just what I know to get by. A more accurate way to put it [...]
I have been mystified by how many Twitter adds I’ve been getting, since I don’t really bother too much with it. But I think I’ve partially solved it. Unfortunately it’s NOT because I’m so awesomely original and brilliant that everyone wants to read my blog posts.
Apparently people are setting up automated [...]
It’s like if a bunch of your friends all of a sudden started getting into Scientology. I hate to be the gazillionth person to say “I don’t get Twitter,” but I don’t get Twitter.
I will say this, it seems like 2 or 3 people a day start following me on twitter, even though all [...]