BarCamp LA #3 is in two weeks. Be there.
There’s a Dunkin’ Donuts for
every 7,389 residents in my home state of
Massachusetts (SvN). In fact, There are 269
Dunkin’ stores or kiosks within a 15 mile radius of Boston
proper
(from The
Phoenix) — a fact which pleases me greatly.
What are ye having, will ye have a pint? Yes, I’ll have a pint with you, sir, And if one of us doesn’t order soon We’ll be thrown out of the boozer.
— Waxie’s Dargle (trad.)
trevicate (v): to end written communication abruptly, in the manner of Trevor the Vampire. Formed from ‘trevor’ and ‘truncate’, and inspired by the following output from a MacPorts install of PHP (from Brad):
---> Installing php5 5.2.1_1+darwin_8+macosx If this is your first install, you might want
What really happened to Starbuck? I’m currently hoping for a rescue by some kind of Final Five/Ship of Lights mashup. #
Erin and I ran into this while walking around the neighborhood the other day.
Curt Schilling has a blog.
It’s quite flattering to be cited in the same breath with Tim Bray and Neal Stephenson. Actually, I inadvertently sat next to Tim during Sam Ruby’s talk at last year’s ETech, but didn’t introduce myself — I was too fanboy-starstruck to say anything. #
Seen around the office recently.
Django
and AJAX — Which
means that here and now, in 2006, if you call yourself a ‘web
developer’ you have absolutely no excuse for not knowing
JavaScript. And if you don’t know JavaScript, you have absolutely no
right to call yourself a ‘web developer’.
ECMAScript 4 committee wiki, including all sorts of juicy proglang geekery. (via Brad.)
Spending to
save — And if you
really want to help fight AIDS in Africa, instead of buying that
(RED) Gap t-shirt for which Gap will donate 50% of its
profit to The
Global Fund, buy a cheaper one at American
Apparel and send the $13 difference to the Global Fund
yourself.
(emphasis his)
(loop for i from 1 to 100
do (format t "~:[~:[~S~;Buzz~]~;Fizz~:[~;Buzz~]~]~%"
(zerop (mod i 3))
(zerop (mod i 5))
i))I tried to fit it all into the control string itself, but boy is that scary.
I love how the first blogger in space used WordPress and Flickr (old news, via photomatt).
Tony pointed out a neat idea to me. Some organizations are good at listening. Some are good at talking. A few are even good at both.
But having a dialogue is different. It's about engaging in (sometimes) uncomfortable conversations that enable both sides to grow and change.
