live podcast at #mix09 at 6:30 pm in "the third place", fourth floor. That's not confusing! BE THERE OR I WILL KILL YOU

I was trying to find an ATM and then realized I am flying to Vegas, the ATM capital of the world. Duh. #mix09

ah yes, Boong Ga Boong Ga.. http://tinyurl.com/c97p2j

quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? http://tinyurl.com/dat7cd

Tools | Options vs. Edit | Preferences ... FIGHT!

square root day, pi day.. man, you guys are a bunch of math dorks! What next? Two day? Three day?

I have now purchased three, yes, THREE netbooks for less than the price of the single cheapest laptop Apple sells. I'M.. JUST.. SAYIN'.

hard to believe I can get the same netbook for $130 less than I paid in October. The hardware, it is free. http://is.gd/nFDQ

context on previous Loopt video http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahamb/2565911988/

I never tire of watching the double-popped collar Loopt keynote guy http://tinyurl.com/6nfpys

"Okay, trust doesn't work as well as correct security measures." WELL DUH http://tinyurl.com/djbmw9

"We deliberately don't put that much effort into security, because this is a community based on trust, not a bank" http://is.gd/nDlk

"Note that when this book came out there were *NO* commonly available personal computers" http://is.gd/nDc4

possibly the most bizarre tattoo I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot. http://tinyurl.com/cb4uzv

"San Francisco: you got served. By *Texas*." http://is.gd/nCr3

"points were redeemable for absolutely nothing, not even a gold star, but our members had an unquenchable desire for them" http://is.gd/nBqi

apparently Ninject doesn't actually inject ninjas into your code. I demand a full refund. http://ninject.org/

Dude Rule #68 : if it's your property, you can pee anywhere you like on it at any time.

Watchmen post-movie topics of conversation: http://tinyurl.com/c5wmgr

laughter truly is the best medicine. If you're out of Percoset and Valium.

how did I end up on this web page? How? http://tinyurl.com/dzruyh

AND A LARGE... ORANGE... DRINK! (Stevens & Grdnic) http://tinyurl.com/cezhcy

rt @jwz "If you have a smiley on your business card... you are a douche." Which is why mine is a frownie. All biz, baby.

yes, be careful with previous link. I blame @wilshipley but I like to think any follower of mine is smarter than falling for that crap

finally leaving the hospital. get ready world, here comes another damn human being

twitter straw poll: how do you feel about serverfault.com for the new IT-centric stackoverflow.com sister site?

the evolutionary path that arrived at a hungry baby's banshee wail scares me. You will do ANYTHING to make it stop. Kill hobos, even.

teammate @jarrod_dixon just sent me this clip from Top Secret. http://tinyurl.com/cwk7e3 (Best. Team. Ever.)

rt @jzy huge collection of nice illustrations http://tinyurl.com/bns3oj

"Clay Shirky, dubious internet commentator" article FAIL. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000

"I also used Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog to train it, as he seems to have a high wordiness factor." WTH, man! http://is.gd/np54

@devkim Diablo 2? Pah, I was a beta tester for Diablo 1, check the credits (it's in alphabetic order..)

l like drinking Pom(tm) because I feel like I'm quaffing health potions in Diablo http://www.pomwonderful.com/products.html

"Life is hard on the little things." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/

via @jzy the background of Charles Ponzi http://tinyurl.com/369p9k

I am learning there's a very fine line between "baby" and "turbocharged raging endless scream machine"

"Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy."

Is IE8 the end of the line for Internet Explorer? http://tinyurl.com/cvjrg9

wow http://new.myfonts.com is a great design

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable http://tinyurl.com/bpxulr

rt @deadprogrammer "why does fully justified text look so good in print, but so horrible online?"

emerging from the hospital for a break, I cannot remember the sky ever being so blue

Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Programmers http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001242.html

optical effects of special relativity http://tinyurl.com/cxoycy

to the person who reminded me of the Cosby natural childbirth bit, thank you so much, @betsyphd hadn't seen it! http://tinyurl.com/6ac58t

w/r/t nurses as "strict proceduralists", to be fair, it *does* vary. Some are better than others; English skills seems to be a factor.

Thanks for all the kind wishes everyone! @rockhardawesome and @betsyphd are doing great!

Say hello to @rockhardawesome

Surgery necessary to get babby out starting now

cuckoo hashing theory -- pushing other hashes out of buckets http://is.gd/mZKB

He would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy.

@paulvick let's not mince words here: the C# "background compilation" is utter crap compared to VB's.

rt @spolsky never ascribe to malice what can sufficiently be explained by "the web server is written in a lisp dialect"

"And apparently this isn't the only Jesus Cheeto." "We're calling him Cheesus." http://tinyurl.com/blh52q

note to husbands: remarking that your wife is sort of hurting your hand while holding it during a contraction? not recommended

my how time flies when you're watching someone experience the most excruciating pain of their entire life

Hacker News has done been Erlangatized! http://tinyurl.com/bj2tc9

rt @nathos "Old Guy Kawasaki = good (Selling the Dream, Rules for Revolutionaries), New Guy = ? Focused on raising VC / building-to-flip."

the more I learn about @guykawasaki the less I respect him. And that's no bull shiitake.

"The default error message is 'I HATE YOU', but the manual suggests that it be customized."

javascript BSOD library, for the best possible error handling experience http://tinyurl.com/b98neh

try (a), people complain. try (b), people complain. I'm no math whiz, but even I can find the constant in that equation.

the main difference between doctors and nurses so far is that nurses are strict proceduralists who can't communicate well (typically)

the only downside to sleeping in the hospital birthing wing? Well other than the hellish banshee screaming throughout the night, none.

rt @haacked "ok...ummm... the next part is all ponies and butterflies... if ponies and butterflies screamed a lot."

every time I'm on Raymond Chen's blog it seems he's arguing with his audience. PEDANTS AHOY

pain level 7/10 and counting. this is primal

the tv in this birthing room is so old, I am tempted to bust out my Atari 2600 and hook it up via the RF cable

dear lady sitting next to me in the hospital waiting room: I don't need to hear the graphic story of human birth. Really.

babby has a twitter account. Guess when and what his first twitter message will be?

inducing babby production at 7 pm PST tonight. NB: I am bringing my C++ GUI programming guide (as seen in Mac vs PC) for photo op

rt @accordionguy Yeesh -- Hooters merch for kids: http://is.gd/mMSs

This is the link for the $242 shipped netbook. I totally endorse the Aspire One. http://is.gd/mMaQ

just ordered an Aspire One netbook for my mom -- $242 including shipping, 1 GB, 120 GB, 1.6 GHz, WinXP. netbooks ftw!

is it lunchtime yet? http://scanwiches.com/

the all cardboard furniture ad agency office is quite cool http://is.gd/mAKG

"I’ve come to the realization that everything I hate about Jeff Atwood, Is also something I hate about myself." Welcome to my world, friend!

all those people who say "only check your email 4 times a day", I dunno. people sure seem to *love* getting a fast response to their emails.

at the point which "how many of you use marijuana" is on the front page of Hacker News, I begin to question their mission. http://is.gd/mGMM

Apparently "relentlessly resourceful" is shorthand for "being a total douche" http://tinyurl.com/dztlfz

"Now that’s a real shame when folks be throwin’ away a perfectly good white boy like that." http://is.gd/mGwx

here's the "aw, snap!" google chrome error. Software protip: MAKE YOUR ERROR MESSAGES AWESOME http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20081002/snap.jpg

Chrome has the most hilariously awesome error dialogs ever. as if I needed another reason to love it. http://is.gd/mGpM

three *grand* to do our corporate taxes? Well, that sucks. (we are a very low-margin operation..)

"Actually, no, the world did not begin with Unix." I don't believe it!

"No matter what you say, up/down votes will be treated as I agree/disagree by your users." true.

best Star Trek video, ever. EVER! http://tinyurl.com/df85l6

I need to build a tower defense against the endless stream of tower defense games trying to steal my time

If everyone likes you, you probably aren't doing anything very interesting.

"crazy (usually European) entrepreneurs" -- for some reason, this snippet is extra hilarious to me

only one thing can save this day: a judicious application of Sparks. http://tinyurl.com/djkh58

the tone of this article makes me crazy, but the advice is interesting. http://is.gd/mE04

just had a flashback to working for BigCo. Had to send an anonymous email to get a manager to deal with an extra-smelly developer. Seriously

apparently Hacker News has a secret cabal of editors. I imagine it's something like The Octagon. http://tinyurl.com/dgeo5a

in the calculus of personal injury law, a dead child is worth the least of all. http://is.gd/mDKf

I still say the iPhone is the smartest thing Apple ever did. The closed ecosystem fits them like a glove, and they're doing everything right

it's amazing how much iPhone dev traffic Stack Overflow gets. More than Rails, even.

rt @jzy "that's kind like how Woody Allen found his wife..." lol. recursive dating. That's so wrong.. yet so right.

rt @kevindente "At this point I think MS should buy Yahoo just so I don't have to hear about the on-again off-again relationship."

you can see the scraping IP in my latest blog post in the Network graphic. it's pulling 3x as much as googlebot directly under it!