Monthly Archives: September 2007

Preparing materials for my upc…

Preparing materials for my upcoming trip to South Dakota. I always feel like I’m forgetting something.

Writing a tutorial to try and …

Writing a tutorial to try and explain a program error before I have to go out of town this week.

Listening to "Heavenly St…

Listening to "Heavenly Star" just because I need my fix.

links for 2007-09-17

How To Add Wordpress 2.3 Tags To Your Current Theme
Details on the WordPress 2.3 changes to the loop code.
(tags: blog howto wordpress tags theme plugins)

See? I Told You the Stuff Was Vile.

Says Tycho from Penny-Arcade:
I purchased twenty fluid ounces of Halo 3 “Limited Edition Mountain Dew Game Fuel” in the hopes that it would taste so horrible that we’d get a strip out of it.  Before I read the ingredients in preparation for this post, I often found myself desirous of this strange liquid - [...]

Continuing to curse Windows-ba…

Continuing to curse Windows-based networking.
And MS Access is also on my list.

Networking database access wit…

Networking database access with plain Windows is stupefyingly irritating.

More importantly, did anyone t…

More importantly, did anyone tell them this was a bad idea?

Dealing with random Vista issu…

Dealing with random Vista issues that are simply based on user accounts. Did anyone test this thing?

New Builder update has been ou…

New Builder update has been out since 8 a.m., and only one support call. Is it too early to claim success?

links for 2007-09-13

New Study Finds M-Rated Games Sell Best
Interesting study that reveals the sales ratios between M-rated games and lower-rated games.
(tags: games marketing parenting)

Billable: Simple service and invoice tracking for Mac OS X.
Great-looking utility for managing invoicing and service billing for Mac OS X.
(tags: application apple business mac macosx management money osx software utilities work freelance timetracking)

links for 2007-09-11

Pat’s King of Steaks - Recipe
A recipe from an honest-to-goodness cheesesteak stand on how to make your own cheesesteak. I will be attempting this in the very near future.
(tags: cooking food recipe cheesesteak)

Harmonix CEO confirms Rock Band’s Xbox 360 bundle guitar is wired
Wait, what? Looks like 360 owners are getting a little bit of shaft [...]

It’s also really cold in my of…

It’s also really cold in my office today. I’m thinking about changing my badge to read "Frozen Foods."

There’s a horrible buzzing noi…

There’s a horrible buzzing noise coming from behind my wall. It’s ridiculously irritating.

links for 2007-09-05

Using del.icio.us as a writing summarization tool
“… with a sufficient number of people bookmarking an article and selecting a short passage from it, I have a useful way to figure out what statement(s) most resonated…” As I’ve just proved the point.
(tags: blog community internet social web bookmarks)

Mortgage Market Collapse Threatens Nation’s Banner Ad Industry
The Onion [...]

Working on catching up from la…

Working on catching up from last week off and finalizing travel plans for the next two months.

links for 2007-09-04

Goodbye, cruel Word
Steven Poole ditches Word for good and talks all about it here. If I didn’t have to use Word religiously for work material, I’d be right along with him. I was better off before I knew as much about Word as I do now.
(tags: apple blog computer design history interface writing microsoft software [...]

links for 2007-09-03

The Laptop Herring
Excellent article by Rands on why all meetings should ban laptops. Also note the conceit at the end of the article about standing meetings.
(tags: meetings rands management efficiency laptop)