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NO!!!

No, you can’t have a pony.

Communism Is Our Savior

This Godless Communism… Learn how to spot and stop the Commies before they infiltrate all sectors of our God-given Free American lives!

LotD: Urns and Caskets

Did you know that Costco is not only a top-tier wholesaler for goods like computers, office products, and pharmaceuticals, but also sells urns and caskets off their website? Neither did I until just now. Costco’s urns and caskets features The Mot...

San Francisco

I’m flying down to San Francisco tomorrow for a nice, long relaxing weekend (Friday afternoon to Tuesday morning). Napa, fireworks, my birthday, Helen, how could it possibly be better? ;-) My boss, Jason, burst into my office this afternoon askin...

Chimp Tunes working better again

I was cleaning up some backend code of mine last week and ended up introducing a bug into the Chimp Tunes code that: Updates song titles in the database. Downloads cover art for display in your Snooze window. I finally figured out what was ...

A Half-Gram of Mescaline

Hannibal of Ars Technica visited Wired Magazine’s disappointing NextFest: I know if I were Japanese, I’d collect both models and watch them fight over a half gram of mescaline. Oh yeah, and for the five people I haven’t told yet, I’m off to Paris...

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The Next 50 Years of Software

I was pointed at this by Larry Osterman’s weblog today. It’s a paper written by Nathan Myhrvold (former CTO of Microsoft) for the ACM97 conference entitled The Next 50 Years of Software. It does a lot to explain software bloat, the changing role o...

Tech Ed Was a Blast

I had a terrific time at Tech Ed in Orlando last week, although I’m afraid that my liver is a bit under the weather now. I’m not going to bother rehashing the million other things that have already been said about it, except to plug the podcast vi...

Upcoming Video Games

A couple random games I’m looking forward to: Killer 7 - Gamecube - July 6 2005 Indigo Prophecy - Xbox - September 6 2005