I write about the things I find interesting. It’s really random stuff.
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At this point, it’s better to tell people right up front, ‘We don’t know,’ as opposed to trying to put out numbers that we’ll be dissatisfied with in maybe less than a week. // To put numerical ‘certainty’ on the…
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Some good things about Drupal
[stag_intro]I am often overwhelmed with feelings of bitterness when I think about Drupal. My wife thinks it is cute that I am so passionate about a platform. [/stag_intro] Frequently, I tag entries referring to Drupal on my web journal with…
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Bill C-61: The Conservative Party of Canada is Insane
One formal definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different outcome. Canada’s DMCA is, by this measure, insane — and so is the party that insists on ramming it through. From BoingBoing.net (via Michael Geist’s…
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Where is the Drupal Joy?
[stag_intro]I realise that with any system there will always be challenges and new things to learn. The “Drupal Way” is very different from the “Tao of Textpattern”. Even today, I struggle to get the underlying concepts for how things are…
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Resume is finally up and running
So I finally had a chance to finish rebuilding my resume. It uses an identical “time line” metaphor from my old side, but this time it is standards compliant with a little bit of jQuery mixed into it. I’m working…
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Book Making from 1947
This is a fascinating “How did they do it” from 1947. The movie features all of the moving parts for a book to be produced and mass-manufactured. I found the “type setter” job fascinating. I remember going to “Blackcreek Pioneer…
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“Directly responding to Apple’s campaign is weak…
Directly responding to Apple’s campaign is weak. It’s playing Pepsi to Apple’s Coke, Burger King to Apple’s McDonald’s. It’s an explicit acknowledgement that Microsoft is the second-place brand. From Daring Fireball regarding Microsofts new I’m a PC Ad John Gruber…
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I have no more mash potatoes for my Shepherd’s p…
I have no more mash potatoes for my Shepherd’s pie. Potato-to-meat ratio is all wrong.
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Of Drupal Woes
[UPDATE: 10/16/2008] I take back most of what I think about the Zen Theme. The more I poked around, the more I “got it”. Great job by the guys at Lullabot. I’ve taken the last week and a half exploring Drupal.…
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“We think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web…
In the long term, we think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web rather than a browser application. We avoid putting things into our UI in the same way you would hope that Apple and…