oh, zombie letters. yes. beats those eco-fonts any day. http://e-zombie.com/

Dear openid-provider.appspot.com: stop sucking. Love, your friends at Stack Overflow. http://is.gd/fD3f

we were kidding about that pink HDMI cable, but http://tinyurl.com/93f4sd

I pronounce Palm Pre DOA. Nice try, and all, but welcome to the next 5 years of utter and complete Apple smartphone dominance. Enjoy.

kinda sucks that the ThinkServer RS110 is only cold-swap RAID. That 4 hour offline resync (tested) is gonna be painful.

check out our hot, sweet new server hardware. homina homina http://tinyurl.com/9r2ef5

why does dealing with random people on Craigslist make me feel like I should carry some portable mace? or perhaps a handgun?

@kevinente Waiters who are Nauseated by Food (young Carell / Colbert) http://tinyurl.com/5vkz9k

wait, Intel is actually shipping dual core Atoms (eg for netbooks)? Why isn't anyone using them? http://is.gd/fBbD

oh nifty, a gaming storage ottoman with specific support for fake plastic drums! http://is.gd/fyJ6

tell me why, I don't like Mondays

love is no excuse to procreate

wtf? Coding Horror ad rule syntax is now in AdBlock Plus by default? SERIOUSLY? People, I HAVE ARRIVED!!

I for one like the new google favico , so there. The Pepsi logo rebrand, on the other hand, is a flippin' disgrace.

just rage-deleted some files from source control and then regretted it

ecofont? really? this isn't a parody? http://www.ecofont.eu/ecofont_en.html

geez, got our sitemap.xml generation down from 90+ seconds to about 7. just removing stupidity and adding.. thought.

just got bitten by this MSBuild "feature" http://tinyurl.com/9y9eep

"I wonder if the big media companies wouldn't be better off building a big, Brewster's Millions style cube of cash and lighting it on fire."

funny, the other computer tech in 24 is the director of Medellin from Entourage. @betsyphd ninja-actor-identification-radar FTW.

"Your search isn't as good as Google!" is like saying to us "you aren't an omnipotent and all-knowing God!" well I'M SORRY!

wow, everybody is using Recaptcha now. Even Craigslist! If they ever manage to crack that, gonna be a "class break", as they say.

put it this way: most phones are firmly entrenched in the DOS character mode era, and Apple just introduced the 512k Mac.

F**k You, Penguin: A blog where I tell cute animals what's what. http://fuckyoupenguin.blogspot.com/

also, most phones suck unbelievably, almost criminally, *way* more than any minor OS / app x86 platform differences.

the phone model fits Apple like a friggin' glove. Mostly closed ecosystem, first-party bias, tight control. Much better fit than x86 boxen.

Tom Cruise is dyslexic? http://tinyurl.com/9lwta3

every man woman and child on earth needs a phone. PCs? not so much.

@migeldeicaza hamster on a piano, eating popcorn? so 1 month ago! still awesome tho: http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/1030534496

"delete all spam now" is pretty pointless, but still feels good for some reason. Take that spammers! I'll show you!

GMail AdSense: "I Made $46,435 Last Month From My Laptop On The Beach!" apparently I have wasted my entire life. I'm so STUPID!

@hkelement yep thank @skrenta , I wish he'd blog more

"How much of your traffic comes from Google?" 85%. The web is a single point labeled G connected to 10b destination pages. http://is.gd/fq03

abandoned The Wire, season 5 soundstages http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1510134.html

two people voted to close an Alan Kay question? I will hunt you down.

got our first ticket on not having "Monospace" in the font-family list. Thanks WebKit! You suck! http://tinyurl.com/7j2slj

How would you move Mount Fuji? "unmount it, first"

you know what's *really* un-fun? escaping regex commands in an XML build file.

wow, that Raid 1E live rebuild took ~9 hours. That was with only with 3 drives, though.

thanks to a noble contributor, we *finally* have a bugfixed/supportable version of the WMD editor (aka thorn in my side), deploying tonight.

a world without downvotes is roughly equivalent to a world without police departments or courts of law. IMHO. Sometimes ugly, but necessary.

the great instant messaging protocol diaspora is such a collective waste of time

ok, so the git win32 GUI is a bit of a trainwreck at the moment

ask not what the software project can do for you, ask what you can do for the software project: http://is.gd/firF

"it's better to be safe than sorry" is such crap. You know what's better than being safe? Being AWESOME.

getting very colicky. ok, so maybe I'm always colicky.

disappointed at the lack of gun-themed baby items. there IS a baby raiders cheerleader outfit, tho

ok so "pediatric" and "baby" are sort of like "enterprise" for software: it doubles the price

finally, a product can get behind: plastic gates for trapping the toddlers. move 'em up, rawhide!

our first trip to babies r us. somebody hold me.

wow, RAID is cool. Just ejected a drive while the system was running, no prob. Reinsert, array rebuilds live. I'm totally geeking out.

setting up my first Raid 1E array, squeeeeeee! also, 2u server quieter than 1u. I guess that's the "small fan" problem in a nutshell.

Facercise http://vimeo.com/2755943

thanks to @accordionguy I now know what an "Eiffel Tower" is. Thanks. I think.

western spaghetti http://tinyurl.com/ay8g85

@drylight if loving @wilshipley is wrong, I don't want to be right! Even though he totally dissed me during MacWorld.

anyone still doing c++ server webapps, now THAT is hardcore. Sorta brain damaged, but hardcore!

seriously, if Snoop Doggy Dogg can be a parent, how hard can it be? http://is.gd/f7VT

finally ordering the rest of our server parts (drives, memory, CPUs). I <3 the economy!

@ haacked er.. why? probably ok to reboot, but why is always helpful / nice..

@jeffaxe well, since you asked, @betsyphd follows my twitter from her pink netbook http://is.gd/4RWE

I'd like to see one of these rails / django folks take on PlentyofFish and crush him. Not sure it's possible, honestly.

"He came out of nowhere, and he didn't seem to give a shit." http://is.gd/f2e2

"Avid Life derives most of its revenue from Ashley Madison, a dating website for married people." now that's class, baby.

what I learned from c# : you really gotta milk that short honeymoon period when you are a "new, sexy language" because it never lasts.

instant solution for all "fix (x) in Opera problems" : stop using Opera. =8-D

ah, delicious domino's oreo dessert pizza!! http://tinyurl.com/86fsvo

fun with the surprisingly enjoyable Domino's flash-based pizza ordering system http://is.gd/f6Bh

75% of facebook users are giggly. also, INCREDIBLY ANNOYING. http://tinyurl.com/6pqzdk

I feel like a digital peasant with only 4 GB of memory now. Gotta upgrayedd to 8 GB. http://is.gd/e0CX

I'm going to literally have to throw towels over these servers to hear myself think. Even at "idle", they're as loud as a hair dryer!

Threaded Comments: Still F**king Horrible After All These Years(tm).

@smerrell sez: "Chrome 2.0 beta already has some basic add-on features ala Greasemonkey, see dev channel at http://bit.ly/eDG8 "

does anyone know the timeline for Chrome to get addins? would love to banish FF3 from my machine. Never really been a fan.

Andrew Keen, amateur internet hater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Keen

I'm the guy who writes that blog. The one on the World Wide Web. Mine is the one with *links*. http://is.gd/eYcX

I ain't afraid of no ghosts, I mean, recession!

"When I go to programmer conferences, I’d rather skip out and talk politics than programming." Me, I'd rather STAB MYSELF IN THE FACE

playing rock songs backwards reveals Satan's secret messages to us http://tinyurl.com/6orrgs

"I don't think it's likely a cop would just straight up murder a random dude." No, he totally would. Let's riot!!

"I don't think it's likely a cop would just straight up murder a random dude." No, he totally would. Let's riot!!

just saw a car in Alameda with an honest to god Carter/Mondale bumper sticker

unsafe code? compile with /unsafe ? srsly? do you also go around telling depressed people to just "cheer up?"

@paulwalls try it yourself http://www.merriampark.com/ldcsharp.htm use stackoverflow.com/revisions/9033/list

@paulwalls well it just took 39 seconds to calculate Levenshtein scores on 17 revisions, and my box is quite fast, so.. got a link? :)

ok wow, Levenshtein is *really* expensive. OMG. http://tinyurl.com/4ryzf

@shsteimer 160gb??? that's like a freaking 1.44 MB floppy disk. I carry bigger USB keys. (ok, not really, but you know what I mean)

I ordered 2 "official" Lenovo server drive rails. arrived. unfortunately, they came with utterly worthless 160gb hard drives attached.

I am really hoping the [arghhh] tag was used by a pirate and will fight the [.net-ninja]

today's midly amusing orphaned tags: [.net-ninja] [arghhh] [fear] [letmegooglethatforyou]

"jon skeet" is now a top 5 keyword in our daily Google Analytics (68 visits). We gotta change our branding to "Skeet Approved(tm)"

because people tend to use the same usernames/passwords all over the place. Why? Because 1,000 sites demanded credentials. Chicken/egg

one of the great failures of the web is the least common denominator security problem: use 1,000 websites, 1 of them hacked, all at risk.

GENIUS business idea: start a commission based job network, then get yourself hired for all the jobs. Collect payouts, quit, retire. EOL

just posted this SO question, for algorithmic love: Determining “Owner” of Text Edited by Multiple Users http://is.gd/eRH5

via @encosia You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way http://is.gd/eRlH

Xenu says I don't have to listen to criticism from any of you guys.

thinking about taking up Scientology in my spare time.

just what is her name, anyway? http://is.gd/eQRf

observation: on some level, the code is less interesting than the human social patterns you're coding for