So yeah, I’ve not posted much here of late, and I think I’m going to try experimenting a little bit with the format. I’ve got an account over on tumblr and I like the concept of it, but it has a serious problem with the whole “saving new posts” thing that makes me somewhat reluctant [...]
Read more →I already did a 2009 retrospective post, so now I suppose I’ll do a rambling 2010 post to go with it. None of these should be construed as New Year’s resolutions, just stuff that I feel I need to work on. If anything, this post is more for my benefit than any else’s since it [...]
Read more →Seeing as it’s a new year and all, I guess I can do a year-in-review post. 2009 had a few high points, but on the whole, it wasn’t a particularly exciting or memorable year for me. Family: My sister got married in May and I had the honor of participating in the wedding. Specifically, since [...]
Read more →Now that I’ve come down off my hateorade-induced Droid rant from last night, I’d like to offer some further thoughts about the Droid. On the whole, I have to say my experience with it was very negative and I honestly cannot recommend buying one at this time. As a disclaimer, I’ve talked to a number [...]
Read more →I’d been watching Verizon’s Droid with a certain amount of interest of interest of late, and after seeing many favorable reviews and being suitably impressed with my coworker’s new Droid, I jumped from an iPhone 3G to a new Motorola Droid. What the hell was I thinking? Now, in all fairness, it’s possible that I [...]
Read more →I’ve just finished migrating my web site over from Site5 to Dreamhost. I’ve been very happy with Site5, but Dreamhost has a nicer control panel (IMHO) and has, as far as I can tell, much better Ruby on Rails support — they support Passenger, which makes deploying Rails applications a lot easier. If you’re seeing [...]
Read more →Clint Ecker shared this awesome photo he came across on Flickr this week: The awesome thing about kids: they don’t give a damn about skin color until some jerk teaches them to. Now if we can just get people to stop doing that… ;)
Read more →During the recently-concluded Presidential campaign, quite a bit was said by one side about “real” America. That’s why I found this article I came across today with letters from fourth graders so interesting. This was my favorite part: Also I’m African American too and I might be just like you. When you get to the [...]
Read more →This says it all for me, really. It was absolutely packed at the early voting location. A good 200 or so people there — lots of younger people — and it took around 45 minutes for them to work through the list. All told, took me around an hour to get my ballot, fill it [...]
Read more →Just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5… the install was quite painless and I must say, the new administration interface is quite nice. Hopefully none of my plugins are broken. :) Also, I really need to post more frequently to break up the constant stream of twitter updates…
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