Fuck, it’s Halloween, isn’t it?
Somewhere between sleep, commuting to work, and releasing a beta release of the product I’m working on, I was supposed to think up a witty costume, buy and/or create it, and wear it for everyone to point and laugh while I stress over said beta product.
Meanwhile, I’m working with a bunch [...]
… is because of the “Top 25 Most Played” playlist. Yes, I know, I’m lame.
But when I was younger, I was fascinated with keeping lists, especially with songs that I heard on the radio. Like, I would hear Casey Casem’s syndicated radio show and I’d pretend that Casey would rank my 40 favorite [...]
My life has been taken over by the following in the past couple of days: HTML. Long commutes. Discussions about Layered semantic markup versus the TABLEs. Javascript pre-loading. Cascading style sheets. Non-web standard methods for Internet Explorer for the sheer sake of it “looking cool.” And most of [...]
I just got an e-mail attachment from a manager. The file name was co-workers-asses.doc.
“Well, that’s pretty inappropriate,” I thought to myself. “I barely know the guy, and that just screams sexual harrasment, if the person wasn’t careful.”
Then I took a second look at the filename. co-workers-assess.doc. Assess, as in, to evaluate. [...]
This weekend, I had dinner with a couple of bloggers that had just come from playing live action D&D. I’ve talked about it before on this website once or twice.
Ernie: So, how was it?
Jhames: Ugh. I didn’t play, but while I was sitting there one of the guys there hit on [...]
As a child, clowns, mimes and Santa Claus scared the crap out of me. But it’s common knowledge that every child hates those things, so they’re not even worth mentioning. There are, however, a couple of things as a child of the 80’s that freaked me out, even though they probably shouldn’t have. [...]
I just received an invitation to my friends “Girls Jumping on Trampolines” party. On Leap Day.
That really is the best idea ever.
Okay, not you, the person reading this message per say. Just some of you.
In the past couple of months, I’ve had a comments from spammers. At first it was a trickle, an insurance site here, a girl-on-horse website there. Lately though, the spammers commenting on my weblog have gone way up, and I’ve [...]
Everyone here is on to me.
“On to me” meaning this: shortly after I posted the doughnut story, the interview story and the smoking story, one of the web developers passed on the web address to the rest of the team. I kinda expected that, so no big deal. What I didn’t expect [...]
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