August 2008
28 posts
If you can't pick on crazy old coots, who can you...
I am totally signing up for McCain’s ‘be the first to hear my VP pick’ telegraph service. (Brushing up on my morse code.)
Twitter / Wil Wheaton: retweeting @dcurtisj
FIDDLESTICKS MY PLAN WAS LEAKED STOP WILL RECONSIDER MY PLANS OVER A PHOSPHATE STOP WILL WRITE SOON STOP
Twitter / Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton and dcurtisj having some fun at old man’s expense.
“Meeting those ppl who can find almost *anything* interesting is such a treat....”
– fave thinker/writer Kathy Sierra on Twitter
“Stick to your task ‘til it sticks to you;
Beginners are many, but enders...”
– Author Unknown (Finishers Wanted - Unweary)
“mission statement - n. - professionally-framed list of things that everyone...”
– Twitter / Merlin Mann
Edward Burtynsky, “The 10,000-year Gallery” →
This is a talk by a photographer about putting a gallery of images into the chamber that will house the Clock Of The Long Now, a mechanical clock intended to keep time for 10,000 years. Thinking about how to make pictures last for 10k years turns the process into a very interesting engineering challenge. As with most everything associated with the Long Now, and especially their seminars, this is...
“Destro suggested that the newly named “Weather Dominator” could not...”
– CobraCommander on Twitter
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“Just won a fifteen minute war with hiccups. Boy, that was fun. And by fun I mean...”
– wilw (Wil Wheaton) on twitter
“How to yell on your iPhone: Tap Settings, Tap General, Tap Keyboard, Tap Caps...”
– the brilliant rands on twitter
one hundred push ups →
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Wait, strike that. Reverse it.
When I first saw Tumblr I thought that I would like it’s easy-to-post mechanism enough to keep using it for everything but once again I’ve rethought it. I’ve decided to keep my regular blog at http://mattorama.net for writing about programming and that kind of thing. I upgraded that blog to Wordpress 2.6 and I like it a lot. I’m going to use Blind Teeth for what it was made...
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Off to Agile2008
My work was kind enough to send me to the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto this year. We’ve had great success with Scrum in our current big project and I’m hoping to keep using it after we’re done (if we ever finish, which is a long subject for another day).
I’m really looking forward to the show and Toronto. My wife gets to go to the conference as well, courtesy of her...
myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding →
I just decided to make this blog more about technology but I just can’t pass up posting this amazing letter. This is a librarian’s reponse to a request to have a children’s book pulled from the library shelves or be labelled for content. The book is about a little girl’s reponse to her uncle marrying another man.
In a perfect world, the response would force the parent to...