how did I not know about this javascript "let me google that for you" parody until recently? http://is.gd/evGV

is it inappropriate to want G&R's "Welcome to the Jungle" playing during the birth of my first child? probably. But: AWESOME!

man, all this advanced CSS stuff makes my head hurt. Heck with it, I'm going back to <font> tags.

rt @accordionguy From Sun Chips to Sun King -- the Louis XIV painting, re-done using junk food and toilet paper: http://is.gd/evyK

I just got an email notice about a DM with a link. I am going to click that link and enter my Twitter credentials. You should too.

Waiting for new OpenID haters to emerge. "ENTERING GMAIL.COM IS SO COMPLICATED! OMG THIS SUCKS!! ALL ABOARD TEH FAILTRAIN!!!1!"

and hey, at least Google's OpenID works right now today, unlike MS Live vaporware test. "google.com/accounts/o8/id" FTW!!

As a teenager, Santiago became interested in computer programming, naming his first program "Iggy" and his second "Pop" http://is.gd/evsD

of course, if people can't come up with some *religious* reason to hate each other, there are a thousand other reasons waiting in the wings.

if you want my job, then you also want to spend all Saturday answering ancient email and reading blog comments. Pretty awesome, eh?

Only 90 days behind in email. I'm catching up!

if anyone ever wonders what the point of Hi-Def television is, sit them down in front of Planet Earth. "oh, I see. Yes. This is why."

why can't you stop thinking about Zebras?

also, I highly recommend the Pixies documentary "LoudQUIETLoud". Amazing how dysfunctional 4 bandmates can be: http://is.gd/ev2c

where is my mind? http://tinyurl.com/2y5q53

did you know.. that @cshirky and I will be presenting at EclipseCon, BATMAN/ROBIN style? FEEL IT!!! http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/

sorry, I'm not in a very "social" mood after going through several hundred uservoice tickets. I believe the word is PECKISH. Yes.

rock band triple cymbals finally in stock at $36! http://tinyurl.com/6euvxu

trying out www.twittastic.net windows twitter client

stackoverflow.uservoice.com list down to "only" 1,281 items now! wheeee!

case sensitivity: Still a Bad Idea(tm)

this is why I like sorbothane for soft mounting hard drives (watch video) http://tinyurl.com/9g4ojo

the "which culture has the most disgusting culinary delicacies" contest is one in which there are only losers. That said, BIRD SPIT???!?

bird's nest soup? WTH?? http://tinyurl.com/8nfogq

"ask first if they want to know the truth" nobody answers this honestly. Either you're thick skinned (and/or a narcissist, like me) or not.

@mobasoft it's complicated. People *want* you to pay attention to them, but if you tell them why you don't...

The eternal conundrum: "be a dick and tell the truth, even if it hurts someone's feelings.. or keep quiet?"

@schwarzwald well, Warhol and Koons turn crappy pop crap into art all the time. Art happens, man.

the mashup of Snoop Dogg's "Sexual Eruption" and Cher's "Believe" is especially epic: http://www.bootieusa.com/bestofbootie2008/

Google Chrome, except for the lack of plugin model, is by *FAR* the best web browser I've ever used. Such a pleasure to use in every detail.

I am assured there are 34 special place(s) in hell for users who open bugs on pluralizing strings attached to numbers.

working hard? hardly working! http://is.gd/eqEV

Professor, what's another word for pirate treasure?

plus, being #1 piracy link for your own product says "hey, we care our product" which combats Broken Window type piracy. Very very smart.

@kathysierra SwingSeat is very cool. http://www.swingseat.com/

@isegal I disagree, being the #1 google hit for piracy searches on your stuff *does* matter. How much, I can't say, but it's significant.

now this is a clever approach to piracy -- smart developer. http://sillysoft.net/warez/

cybercrooks can pull in as much as $5 million a year by installing rogue programs on PCs http://is.gd/es2g next: FART APPS!

BD+ encryption cracked months ahead of schedule http://is.gd/erWX

is this "can't use iPhone while wearing gloves" really a problem? maybe in cold climates? http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40799/118/

oh nice, Monty Hall as explained by Kevin Spacey http://tinyurl.com/5c6779

I love upvoting good responses from new users on stackoverflow. You see, the first "hit" is always free...

actual comment left on Stack Overflow question: "You can't just say something like 'Fix this for me my peasant slaves'." LOL

seriously, what *isn't* user friendly about the string "google.com/accounts/o8/id"? Totally intuitive.

wow, google's GMail OpenID is pretty solid, as long as you remember to use "google.com/accounts/o8/id" as your magic login string.

oh "__MACOSX" folder, you're such a wiseguy!

"nobody wants to read tweets about rape and cancer." Well, speak for yourself, pal.

@peSHLr well, you carry multiple forms of ID in your wallet right now, yes? And each serves a different purpose, sometimes?

@peSHlr well, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, all support OpenId now.. just a question of how easy we can make it. Still a bit rough UI-wise.

best of bootie 2008! oh hellllllll yes <3 http://www.bootieusa.com/bestofbootie2008/

disagree, @jongalloway is pretty awesome

"You can't just say 'discuss'. You have to give people some opinions to work with, or directly insult their fat mothers."

@zenpsycho comments don't scale. who is going to read 700+ comments, in ANY form? Only works with voting/ranking/editor's picks.

"The Wrestler" totally lived up to the hype. Batshit insane method acting or not, Rourke was made to play that character.

rumspringa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa

seeing "the wrestler". ready for mickey rourke to rock my world, master thespian style

"who the H311 is roy orbinson?!?!???" kids these days. I cry inside. http://www.rbdlc.com/news/?p=570

as much of a math illiterate as I am, it's good to know there are people who are, uh, far more illiterate than me. I guess.

all those "go back in time and kill Hitler" scenarios were tragically misguided; we need someone to go back in time and kill Karl Rove.

"There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who have regular sex."

rt @nathanbowers this is your last year to enjoy novelty X00X A.D. shades http://twitpic.com/ymd9

getting wasted is big business

go buy crap from my Etsy shop, or I'll cut you. I'LL CUT YOU! http://tinyurl.com/7pxepp

Etsy's image depiction of "not allowed" items is great. NO SELL ANGRY ITEMS PLS! http://www.etsy.com/images/notAllowed.gif

Remember, you'll be dead for millions of years. Happy 2009!

why does @wilshipley hate sick children so much? This seems wrong to me, somehow.

the brits are coming! Suck it, Walmart! http://is.gd/ejZ1

it's mildly disturbing to me that @betsyphd and I always say "babby" now. We did figure out how it's formed, though.

top 10 George W Bush moments, from David Letterman http://tinyurl.com/3moqzs

leap year bug??? awesome! http://tinyurl.com/a4yfq8

Not really a Grateful Dead fan, but "Alabama Getaway" is great fun on fake plastic instruments, best Dead song (of ~8) on the platform IMO

600 comments? Er.. oops. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001203.html

You guys should listen to me, because I'm an important blogger. Seriously. I'm not kidding. Important. I type stuff on a web page.

@johnsheehan I have a question: why do you ask so many questions?

way too much angst over visible deletions for pseudo-moderators. http://is.gd/egax The undelete, I am sympathetic to..

oh, I see, my GMail "suggested contacts" are at 9999. kind of a bummer it couldn't replace some of those with ones I actually email..

GMail issue: I seem to have hit some internal limit on automatic autocomplete for email addresses? Is there a way to clear this?

Did you know.. that implementing logarithmic upvote values (declining) would make almost no difference to most people's rep?

Did you know.. that if we didn't have daily rep limits, Jon Skeet would have over 50k rep?

I am not anti-NPR, I am anti-insane-radio-voice-mannerisms. Who talks like that? WHO!

one of my favorite all time SNL bits, the NPR parody. Their speech patterns are friggin' RIDICULOUS. http://is.gd/Swt

This American Life is a great show but Ira Glass' tone of voice and lilting speech patterns makes me want to kill someone.

To be clear, the answer to all this is "it depends". For basic bread-and-butter updates, yes, linq2sql (and ORM) works great.

if you spend so much time learning the layer underneath, you're like.. dizamn.. why not just cut out the middleman and save some time?

it's called The Vietnam of Computer Science for good reason http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000621.html

I don't object to abstractions. I object to abstractions so leaky I need a raincoat when working with them (see: webforms, many ORMs..)

the problem with linq2sql (and most ORMs, I guess) is that naive object model refs (can) result in 3x-4x as many queries as a hand query

Suck it down(tm), Your pal Mike http://tinyurl.com/37n279

last night I had a very vivid dream that I had a giant (3+ ft) spider that kept crawling into bed to snuggle with me. Not kidding.

arrgh. Textile. Sorry, I'm in the Markdown Uber Alles camp now. There can be only one. Two markups enter, one markup leaves.

PERFORMANCE == FEATURE

Not impressed with github performance so far. 3+ second delay after clicking on "privacy policy" and "wiki"? Really?

sigh. as usual, my fumbling attempt to micro-optimize was a complete waste of time. "maybe if I increase iterations to 100,000?"

all time most confounding interview puzzle question! http://tinyurl.com/97aw24

@bellware somehow the revelation that you hate puppies does not surprise me :)

or this question: -12 score, 2 favorites, 1 offensive, 14 answers with 26 upvotes. Paradox. http://is.gd/e8Z1

every time I click on someone's twitter name and get smacked in the kisser with PROTECTED UPDATES, God kills a puppy. Just so you know.

It's unfortunate that people provide *really* good answers to horrible questions that I'd otherwise delete. http://is.gd/e8RK

"OO.o is a profoundly sick project, and worse one that doesn't appear to be improving with age." http://is.gd/3Qq1

Indian Offshore Programmer Hate is so tired. I have plenty of hate for homegrown onshore programmers to go around.