Entries Tagged as 'Meta'

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

A tale of two customer support experiences

I’ve been putting together a mac mini-based home theater PC. I was going to post on it when I got it finished, but instead I have a different story. Putting it together, I bought a few components and two different ones failed within two weeks (two weeks of each other and two weeks of opening [...]

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

How I know that I’m still an engineer and entrepreneur at heart

We were looking at a demo of an agile-project tool yesterday. The tool itself was pretty good, but I just kept thinking about how I could write it myself and how much fun that would be. Then, once I looked at the cost of the license, I had to restrain myself from taking a week [...]

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

The best spam comment I’ve received thus far

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Monday, May 11th, 2009

links are busted right now

Working to figure out what happened and get it fixed ASAP. [update] we’re good now.

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

An idle thought on date naming in the new millenium

Let us pretend that you have a yearly festival, Awesome Fest. You’ve been doing it forever. Awesome Fest ’87 was insane, this year’s Awesome Fest ’09 will be crazy. What do you call next year’s Awesome Fest? Awesome Fest ’10 sounds weird to me. Don’t you need to start using he whole year for a [...]

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

My Favorite Posts of 2008

As is my tradition, I’m including my favorite posts of 2008 here. These are the posts that I like the best, they are not necessarily the most popular. Thanks for continuing to read my nonsense and ramblings, and here is to more in 2009! Why Live Mesh will fail 64 bits, Adobe, Apple and Microsoft. [...]

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Happy new year, here is to a better one

I realized today that I haven’t posted anything here in quite a while. Maybe it was a normal ebb in the blogging stream, but there is more to it than that. Those that are parents are well aware of the ability of an a child to pull your head out of the echo chamber of [...]

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Intonarumori performs in Seattle 11/7/08

SIL2K and BROWNBOX present *SIL2K* performs Tetraktys An Oratorio after Pythagoras Rachel Lissman, narrator Based on Lucretius’ “On The Nature of the Universe” And closing the evening: *inBOIL vs. Intonarumori* Friday November 7 7:30pm $5 cover The Rendezvous 2322 2nd Ave, Belltown/Seattle [Update 11/7/08: The Stranger's Classical Music Column, The Score, previews the show]

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Some Seattle Photos

A Sailboat race in Puget Sound The Seafair Pirates in Belltown A fire in West Seattle

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

the bio

I’m really bad at writing my bio. This doesn’t come up often enough that I have a canned text, but it does come up more often these days. I tend to write my biography to suit the occasion, but I was checking out my friend Kevin’s website and I really liked what he did with [...]