RT @PEAKInternet Fair enough, I'll have the equipment on display tomorrow that smoked.

Bah, I'm going back to http://experts-sex-change.com

RT @haacked would it be tasteless for me to pitch HAACKOVERFLOW, down 100% less than StackOverflow.com right now?

Yes ISP problem so all stack overflow sites are down. @jarrod_dixon is my huckleberry

R @wilshipley people still write apps for operating systems instead of browsers? How old-fashioned.

"Because, like the Spanish Inquisition, no one really expects floating point."

The Shakira Conundrum: dancing? uncontrollable convulsions? maybe a little bit of both?

Man security theater is the worst show ever. I want clowns, fire eaters, and sword swallowers.

flying out to LA DevDays in an hour or so http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/losangeles/

for double++ hilarity, the html5 video at the bottom of http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html doesn't work for me in Chrome.

r @timbray the exec summary of http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html is "we suck, flash wins."

@dozba statistically speaking, people who get in accidents tend to get in more accidents. first one could be an outlier, I guess.

I am not here to pimp my blog. You want to read it, read it. Meh. Who cares.

I don't mind sql server's built in fast-but-crappy compression. what I do mind is that the crappy compression prevents good recompression

totally digging on the Lego Rock Band track list. Also: export! Also: works as a front end to DLC! http://is.gd/4jTRR

consensus: mechanical hard drives are sooo 2008. All the cool kids are going SSD! You want to be cool, don't you? eh? eh?

counting down the days until Apple goes SSD-only on all Macs. It's luxurious and elitist, thus it has to happen.

these new SSDs ruin you. Prepping laptop, and it seems *comically* slow now with its pokey mechanical spinning rust hard drive.

put a http://meta.stackoverflow.com sticker on my laptop. It's a badge of shame, I mean, honor.

rt @sween: "Best Windows ever" is as dubious a distinction as "whitest Jackson ever" [and just as technologically bigoted!]

rt @hotdogsladies You say, "I'm great at multitasking." I hear, "Delusion's made my carelessness scalable."

Are You Feeling Lucky? http://bit.ly/15JSL8

DeBarge is awesome. THERE I SAID IT. I am not ashamed. OK, I'm a little ashamed. http://bit.ly/PcaCh

threaded discussion problem #4: after 1 response, trust me, nobody cares except you and that guy (and it's always a guy). Get a room.

threaded discussion problem #3: you think you're "talking" to the other person, but you're really talking to every reader.

the other problem with threaded replies: it lets jerkbags drag the margin to the right with endless pedantic responses.

a tender ode to non-alcoholic brew http://bit.ly/3YBJPy

physical mail sucks, but buying, using and even collecting cool stamps is fun. There's gotta be a business model in there, somewhere.

just bought @rockhardawesome his first keyboard. Is 7 months too early? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EONVX0/

wow, just sent a direct message via twitter that disappeared without a trace. That's ... great.

rt @spolsky the kiln website is now up: http://fogcreek.com/kiln/ [hosted mercurial + code review]

rt @standaloneSA programmers should celebrate weekly festivus. The airing of grievences could be cathartic.

remember, the circle of blame is *never* complete until someone leaves the room/im/email thread in anger!

playing "complete the circle of blame" with the #stackoverflow dev team. The one game where everyone is a loser!

rt @jmorrill I will declare the downturn over when I'm making obscene amounts of money.

Intel just made an obscene amount of money this quarter (most in 30 years); can we officially call the downturn over?

"copyright holders get 150 times more from pursuing filesharers than from selling actual music" http://is.gd/4iejj

AMD's awesome new codename for their next-gen GPUs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecatoncheires

rt @migueldeicaza http://imgur.com/DgObr.jpg

rt @seesharp http://bestc.am/WL5nv Geek chic #Casio calculator watch, reissued in Orange/Aqua/Tan

a Stack Overflow for startup advice, with superstar backing -- http://answers.onstartups.com/

rt @kevindente Etsy? How about Regretsy? http://is.gd/4g47s (vaguely NSFW) [The uterus pillow, I MUST HAVE IT!!]

can anyone cite a proper rss/atom extension to specify vote counts in a feed?

Pair programming with @rockhardawesome today! He's my coding buddy! http://twitpic.com/l9xgu

just ran into this problem in a modern browser. article dated ELEVEN YEARS AGO. HTML FTL? http://bit.ly/31lsMm

dubious honor of the month: 6-starring "Dancing With Myself" on expert guitar 1st try. Erm, I guess I know that song a little TOO well.

did you know that every Stack Overflow email is baked with love? http://is.gd/4f1aT

unconscionable things I have been subjected to, part 8409: listening to @spolsky proofread sections of his wikipedia entry

someone just emailed me telling me I should write about the NP-complete problem again. Batten down yer hatches!!

rt @kuzushi Most "development" is electronic burger flipping.

@robconery OH NO YOU DI-INT, ITS ON #80schallenge video http://bit.ly/CrBRJ

@robconery good choice; I return your challenge with http://bit.ly/olkY8

rt @john_lam More evidence that Sharepoint is the new VB: SP 2009 conference sold out at 7000 attendees. Wow. http://bit.ly/KzGuj

"You advocate that jQuery should then become a web standard at the expense of all other script libraries?" Yes, cut the gordian knot.

Some people, when confronted with a discussion problem, think "I know, I'll use threads!" Now they have two problems.

maybe I'm crazy, but I'd like to see a browser with native implementations of jquery calls. Like C++ code implementations native.

Conan interviews the co-creator of USB from the rockstar commercial. Sort of. http://is.gd/4eOtY

rt @bhollis I think you might enjoy this Swoopo.com Profits Greasemonkey script I wrote: http://m8.to/3Pl

so @betsyphd and I are living the "make $5000/week stuffing envelopes from home!" lifestyle now, and I gotta tell you, I'm skeptical.

twitter etiquette protip: before asking someone to dm you, make sure you are following them. In related news, I am an idiot.

mailing stickers to top stackoverflow.com, superuser.com, serverfault.com users. First mail merge I've done in FOREVER http://is.gd/4erO0

the TV show "Glee" is basically a more accessible version of Strangers With Candy. That's not a bad thing.

Pro Wrestler Dr. Death on the subtleties of San Francisco tourism http://bit.ly/11Agvf

sometimes I think advertising is dead, and then I remember Got Milk, along with this: http://is.gd/4d8Nn

the prevalence of xml for build scripts is a wartime atrocity against programmers. unbelievably difficult to read.

rt @beckleyworks Actually, the little known <beer> tag wins out. The <strongbeer> tag should be used in moderation.

<b> vs. <strong>: <b> is shorter so it wins by default. Not that arguing semantics isn't ALL kinds of fun.

Altered Beast: Gaming's Citizen Kane http://bit.ly/hkjoK

I swear halloween gets sluttier and sluttier every year.

people complain when you write. then they complain when you don't write. I am reducing this equation to its constant value.

everybody knows that JJ Fad is devastating. http://is.gd/4bFN6

"If you wanna be the man, you gotta out-eat the man." http://70sbig.com/?p=238

thank you @rockhardawesome for revealing the first four years of my own life to me. I certainly don't remember any of it!

rt http://easiertounderstandthanwave.com/ via @counternotions @petterihiisila @nathanbowers

bullets at 1 million fps (ultra-slow-mo) http://is.gd/49ZxX

r @hmxcasey the continued lack of CCR DLC for Rock Band is a crime, my friend. A crime. Ask yourself: What Would Lebowski Do?

remember when Macs used to be awesome supercomputing PowerPC machines instead of crapbox x86s like everything else? Yeah.

scarf hero! http://bit.ly/OxExi

rt @standardpixel: When a UX person suggests a video tutorial for their interface are they admitting failure? [absolutely]

this *insanely* detailed article on the Atari 2600 E.T. game reminds me why I <3 wikipedia http://is.gd/49jjG

rt @waltritscher the myth (really the subtlety) of "the page fold" http://is.gd/49hTt

rt @carnage4life Zombieland sounds like a movie about the current state of Java as a programming language

rt @betsyphd I'm going to send my boss this for Bosses' Week. http://bit.ly/Wwc1y

World bestows surprise Nobel Peace Prize upon Obama. THAT is how f'ing sick of Bush they were. Wow.

lol, the director of the new movie "Couples Retreat" is RALPHIE from a Christmas Story! http://is.gd/46kcu

hey, you know what else isn't thread-safe? YOUR FACE.

vivaldi on the accordion. I'm calling you out @accordionguy ; you're slippin'. http://bit.ly/KjM0w

Stack Overflow business plan, take 2: http://bit.ly/tBxOX

r @austinmills flight sims, do you use the full controls MONTY?? http://is.gd/45EaD

r @xonev IR head tracking works using minimal head motion; it exaggerates tiny movements on screen http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/

Rock Band for iPhone this month. Well, it doesn't involve a PSP, so that's an improvement... I guess. http://is.gd/45tPw

@gortok afaik what I answered was correct. re-reading it, still feel same way.

does anyone use TrackIR, the head tracking device, with racing games? works like so: http://bit.ly/PhbhB

amusing "hardcore" rap video from the Icelandic developers of Eve Online. http://bit.ly/11v1ns

good cover of Madonna's "Like a Virgin", or *best* cover? you decide. http://is.gd/44t6a

rt @coder32768 I agree with the first rule of programming, except if you are dealing with Infragistics chart controls. Then it's their fault

ah, I see. I am a doofus. I forgot the first rule of programming! http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001079.html

is it simply not possible to rewrite https:// urls in IIS7? http://is.gd/44mjn (note: I very well may be a doofus)

The game that lets you pretend to be the band that pretended to be the Beatles! http://bit.ly/9B6xN

one of my favorite college math class moments: hearing a fellow student ask what the "sideways eight" meant.