r @openmedia it's definitely useful to discriminate between "I have a backup" vs "I have restored" http://is.gd/5nwK7

it is surprisingly easy to write blog posts about how much I suck. Maybe TOO easy. Hrm.

r @jeffsand I *love* Canadian Idiot and I've tweeted it before. @ALyankovic is a GENIUS! http://bit.ly/85YmrW

Green Day's "American Idiot" is a truly great album, the ultimate antidote to 4 sad, depressing more years of Bush.

"This is like that rainbows-in-the-hose video. I can see why people laugh, but it just makes me sad." http://is.gd/5nqKB

I am taking @portman_wills up on his bet. No way in hell will Android outsell iPhone in 2010: http://is.gd/5nnBM

safety tip: be sure to wear protective goggles while grinding your axe. Those sparks are dangerous!

Monty, Stallman trying to put the GPL genie back in the bottle: http://is.gd/5nknx

Bing search is kind of a success, in that when it is accidentally on, I don't feel compelled to IMMEDIATELY turn it off; I get results

I dreamt that left4dead zombies (special infected only) were everywhere in real life, with terrifying results

wow my very own 4chan thread! I have finally arrived! http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1260565114

the internet (n): the largest collection of back-seat drivers and armchair quarterbacks the world has ever known

r @photar I wish I could reply to the transcribed voicemails with email and have google robot voice call them back my reply.

Google Voice's fatal flaw: requires talking to other human beings.

The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day http://is.gd/5m9N8

the ultimate backup plan is to go open source, both data (we already do) and code. Some people don't care for that solution.

the absurdity of fantasy backup plans: "What if the Earth is destroyed? Shouldn't we have off-planet backups as well?"

does anybody know anyone at web.archive.org? I hate to scrape their site to recover archived codinghorror.com images..

though I visited Zivity once I don't appreciate getting emails a year later about tagging things "blonde double-jointed". Skeevy.

man, I regret logging in to Zivity based on my curiosity from that NYTimes article ( http://is.gd/5lk2V ). Unsubscribe!

r @timoreilly was Facebook ever NOT evil? This is news to me.

green day rock band? wtf? http://is.gd/5linY

The Guardian lists Stack Overflow in "100 essential websites" http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/09/best-websites-internet

Michal finally had time to send me high-res pics of the Stack Overflow trilogy Lego minfigs! http://www.flickr.com/photos/eggsmclaren/

I see that some sites are now putting # in front of tags. Is that officially a "thing" now?

the Windows Home Server ad campaign was brilliant http://is.gd/5laOb and the product is quite good, but .. an idea with no future.

"Easy, guys.. I put my pants on just like the rest of you -- one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records."

today has been VERY!!@ EXCITING!!!!2! Thanks, everyone, for your support. Except for @spolsky. He sucks.

if cats had TV shows. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8vvhGixWQQ

on the podcast this week (unpublished, because I suck) @spolsky and I discussed "worst case scenario" biz outcomes. prophetic!

Thanks to the most excellent @skrenta of http://blekko.com I now have basic HTMLin place for codinghorror and blog.stackoverflow.com

for the record, I blame 50% hosting provider, 50% myself (don't trust the hosting provider, make your OWN offsite backups, too!)

"Jeff has some good articles on Coding Horror on backup. You should give them a quick read." lol

hey guys, guess what *I* get to spend all weekend doing?! It's gonna be sooo awesome.. :p

if you have any tips for recovering a website from internet caches (particularly *images*) please share here: http://is.gd/5k4fy

I had backups, mind you, but they were on the virtual machine itself :( I am OK on post-text, getting the post images is much harder..

looks like it's 100% internet search caches for recovery. Any tips on recovering images, which typically aren't cached?

you sort of assume your hosting company is competent. That's not a safe assumption in my experience.

looks like 100% data loss. thanks.. crystaltech.. :(

ugh, server failure at CrystalTech. And apparently their normal backup process silently fails at backing up VM images.

r @wilshipley you gotta understand that the Windows ecosystem is all about *choices*, baby! Confusing, arbitrary, wrong choices!

today's WTF user-agent string: "MSIE 4.01; Digital AlphaServer 1000A 4/233; Windows NT; Powered By 64-Bit Alpha Processor"

America is the plum. The peach. The watermelon. America is the gumdrop. The pumpkin seed. America is television. http://is.gd/5jiKM

rt @mattcutts reading this page of sushi etiquette: http://bit.ly/51CKSq I wasn't getting very much of it right [me neither!]

The Muppets: Ringing of the Bells http://is.gd/5jg0f

it's a little known fact, but Where's Waldo is actually pornography for children! http://is.gd/5jfBX

a Star Wars: The Phantom Menace review in 7 parts. http://is.gd/5jfvB

I have now officially lost all will to live :( http://is.gd/5jf1g

I like to pronounce the "a" in Cocoa. But that's just me.

"There's a secret Google cheat code that boosts your Google pagerank... It's ALT-F4 ALT-F4 ENTER"

is "Over the Top" the best movie about arm wrestling ever made? well DUH http://is.gd/5ivSU

rt @supermathie You could play Nethack and anyone who walks by would think you're programming in Perl

"Programming work is essentially unsupervisable because no one ever really knows what you're working on."

the Girl Talk mashup album is great. Highly recommended: http://is.gd/5hHRZ

r @joelprada Opera is at the bottom of a well, and I am asking it to put the lotion in the basket... or it gets the hose again.

Forza 3 Twitter failwhale-mobile! http://is.gd/5hEg4

HOW TO BE X-TREME!!! http://is.gd/5hBYR

geez, Firefox 3.5 is now 2x slower than Chrome and Safari for me on the Sunspider benchmark. Could be worse though: IE.

based on the Umloud performances I'm listening to, fake plastic rockers don't need guitar/drums lessons -- they need SINGING LESSONS. OMG.

justin.tv's "live" stream from the DNA lounge is not particularly "live" or a "stream" at any given time

fun japanese tv-synth animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ9YtJC-Kd8

short version: if Mark Russinovich doesn't disable his pagefile, trust me, you shouldn't either. EOD. http://is.gd/5hl73

disabling your pagefile is a moronic "optimization", and here's why: http://is.gd/5hl3W

wow, core i7 overclocking is .. interesting. Modern CPUs are raging infernos on the head of a pin. Internal throttling is hard to avoid

consider: if you have 8 GB memory, your pagefile + hibernate file are 16 GB *alone*. and I have 12 GB memory..

r @shanselman @portman_wills I *told* you guys 128GB was the minimum for a boot drive. Unless you enjoy stressing out over free space..

the Army called the America’s Army game more effective than “any other method of [recruitment]” http://is.gd/5hgaJ

Did anyone else know that Amazon is having a CRAZY Beatles: Rock Band sale? $20 off Wii version, $10 off of Next gen! http ...

Well, I was referring to the way World of Warcraft copied meme dance styles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066_q4DIeqk

oh Alizée, do your slutty night elf dance for me just one more time!!

I don't know how much @wilshipley paid for this, but I think he got his money's worth http://is.gd/5h6IF

o hai Code Project! :) http://is.gd/5h58Y

"the tests took longer than the implementation – and so did writing it up in this blog post"

it's wine! it's beer! it's.. wibeer! http://is.gd/5h3uv

dear Opera users, the web is not broken, *Opera* is broken. Thank you and good day.

@HMXkfan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CquMO3vJvo feel the love

the ultimate geek compliment: the Stack Overflow Trilogy, now in Lego form! http://is.gd/5ga6o

I need a service that pummels people who email me. (NB: if you are writing on matters of actual related business, you are pummel-exempt.)

@dozba yeah, but where's your Google houseboat? eh?

rt @jonerickson SO Careers got me a job. success stories +1. [congrats!]

"Mr. Leonardo is the Secretariat of stoopers." http://is.gd/5fXos (via @deadprogrammer)

rt @deadprogrammer how to physically steal a server without powering it down - http://wi.nr/5a

aha, "label adr". Now I just hope the next programmer to come along doesn't "rename" these "unused css classes". sigh.

is there any way to specify a single-field unstructured "location" field in hCard? I can't find a way, and that's all we have..

thanks @DamianEdwards for Firefox Operator add-in rec http://is.gd/5fqPn and @pornelski for hCard validator rec http://is.gd/5fqPE

babbies really are adorable. It's too bad they grow up to be people.

dept. of bad ideas: let's take this ambiguous, crappy "HTML" markup and layer some ambiguous, crappy 'microformat' markup on top! STAB STAB

<div class="intro-wrapper vcard"> well, I hope that's a valid vCard "microformat". No idea if it is, can't tell from the spec.

seriously, this microformat css stuff is just flat-out *dumb*. Oh look, I can't tell metadata from css styling information any more! yay!

implementing hResume on careers.stackoverflow.com is making me want to cut myself

for some reason I find microformats based on class="" overloads incredibly lame, hacky, and generally utterly irritating

gee, I would like to work on my PC a bit but a certain diva of a cat has taken up residence on it. http://is.gd/5f7EQ

I like to start my day with some choice "Deliverance" quotes. That's just how our team works; opinions vary.

did iFixit just invite themselves into our Web League of Justice? :) It's good stuff, though! http://www.ifixit.com/blog/?p=1989

'You don't think I'm peaceful? Step up to my face and say that, b***h.' http://is.gd/5f19o

"I don't write songs about girls any more; I have to write songs about women" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSDF8VvU13M

oh look, new badges on Stack Overflow et al! <runs away>

one word: divorce. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091203/od_nm/us_wedding

I sometimes have hope for browser interoperability, then I realize that they can't even agree on displaying newlines in title="" tooltips

watching @jzy and @nathanbowers together, I feel like Gwyneth Paltrow in Emma, except for dudes.. sniff..