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15 Minutes of Fame

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:15 -0700

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea of Sensibility

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:52:05 -0700

You Call That a Pothole?

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:15 -0700

Aeroplan Status Anyone?

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:15 -0700

Andre the Giant Has a Posse

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:26:36 -0700

Unlocked! The Secrets Behind Award-Winning Software

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:15 -0700

Tall Sumatra and a Bagel with Cream Cheese

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:15 -0700

Roots: Rated Best for Beavers

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:15 -0700

Beyond Blue

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:15 -0700

Bridge The Gap

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:15 -0700

All Kinds of New Things

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

Canada Rocks Out

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:42:34 -0700

Candy Tax Your Meetings

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:47:09 -0700

Chaises Blanches et Café Noir

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

Pine Chester Is One Talented Bloke

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:42:41 -0700

I Spy With My Little Eye

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:15:00 -0700

Cool Tools

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:36:34 -0700

Creative Destruction

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

Dating a Bug: Defect Reports are Like Online Dating

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:37:56 -0700

Delayed

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

Did You Just Say What I Think You Said

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

Digerati Illiterati

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:09:59 -0700

Digerati Illiterati

Way back in 1999, I started keeping a blog (before it was cool…or easy). Always having to write nicely formatted HTML and then upload it became irksome, so after a year, I moved on to periodic musings, which are cataloged below. If you've come in search of more highbrow material, you'll have better luck with my professional writing.

Electunic Social Networks

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

The EU Rail Pass Is Kinda Dumb

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:22:07 -0700

How Much Can You Consume Without Really Eating?

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:25:36 -0700

James Douglas Young, Q.C.

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

Fear

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

Yo! You Got Fiddy Cent, Man?

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

Fidelicious Mojitos

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:12:03 -0700

Flying Was Fun, Once

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:42:11 -0700

The Perfect Guy: Smart, Manly, Makes Great Cookies

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

Guactatoes

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

Guns, Liquor & Whores

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

Guns, Whores & Booze

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700

History's Failure

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:15:14 -0700

How Did That Happen?

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:32:42 -0700

How Did That Happen?

So, this weekend, I was in Flagstaff, Arizona visiting my friend Mina, who I first met in Istanbul, Turkey, more than a year ago. After a fun day exploring the Lava River Caves in the Coconino National Forest, we spent a bit of time together in the computer lab – she had to make an exam for her students, and I had some work to do for a client. I was searching for some ideas on presentation of data for a client meeting, but I'd only entered “how” into the the browser search box when one of her fellow grad students came into the room to say hello. After he left, I returned my focus to Firefox, which, by then, had invoked its auto-suggest feature and pulled up what must be the popular completions (image at right). Hilarity ensued…it follows like the plot outline for a bad movie.

Get dressed up in something fancy
Figure out how to kiss the girl
Process the night, and think about how you met the young lady
Determine how to have a kid
Learn how pregnancy works
Give your partner helpful tips on post-pregnancy weight loss (ed: providing a partner with weight-loss advice is rarely ingratiating)
Start moonlighting as a web developer to earn extra money for Little Jenny's college tuition
Get distracted and focus on celebrity gossip
Learn that cocaine can help with rapid weight loss (and apparently contributed to the death of Billy Mays)

HTTPS & LWP on Leopard

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:36:52 -0700

Indecent Exposure

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:36:43 -0700

Abolish All Independent Thought

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:17 -0700

Is P2P Traffic The Carriers' Red Herring

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:02:51 -0700

Kick-Ass Cookies

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:51:48 -0700

Kill The Squiggly Line to Improve Your Writing

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:46:39 -0700

My Life As An Associate

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:17 -0700

Lines

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:17 -0700

Please Put Litter In Its Place

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:17 -0700

Live The Dream

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:17 -0700

Look It Up

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

Look Who Popped By

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:27:51 -0700

The Real Motivation for Marriage

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:08:38 -0700

The Measure of the Man

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:17 -0700

Misplaced Value

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:17 -0700

Monster Fail

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:37:44 -0700

New Rains

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:17 -0700

Not Loving Your Job?

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:43:51 -0700

The Oatmeal Savage

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

Welcome, Parishioners, to the Church of OCD

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:01:15 -0700

It's All in That One Red Bag

Thu, 07 May 2009 22:39:07 -0700

Outsourced Oil

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

The Periodic Torontonian

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

Poetry in the Park

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

PowerPoint Genius

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:32:48 -0700

Printed

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

Updated Briefing Sheets for the Proposal Team

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:38:57 -0700

What Time is It? Quittin' Time!

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:17:19 -0700

Sculpture

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

Please, Please Just Shut the Hell Up

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

Six Dirty Words

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

Smarties Mini Eggs

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:49:21 -0700

Something About The Way

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

Something Delicious

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:41:32 -0700

Spank of America

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

Statistically Improbable Phrases

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:12:48 -0700

Stella

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:18 -0700

All About sudo

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

Giving Thanks

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

That Tiny Spot

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

The 4 oz Laptop

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

The Air Up There

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

Work In Review

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

The New Backpacking

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:47:02 -0700

The New Minimalism

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

The Notebook

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

The Sauce

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

The Shiver

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

The Simpsons

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

The Struggle

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:19 -0700

The T

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:08:13 -0700

The Tank

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:20 -0700

The Tweet Heard Round The World

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:08:33 -0700

Things Canadians Like

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:49:24 -0700

Things I Like

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:46:01 -0700

This Conversation Never Happened

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:51:32 -0700

What the #*&$ is a Tofurky?

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:20 -0700

Tweet, Tweet

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:46:32 -0700

Twitter XML Parser

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:21 -0700

Undone...or Just Unfinished

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:20 -0700

Unexpected

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:20 -0700

Unplanned Adventures

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:20 -0700

Unreal Serendipity

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:20 -0700

Usted Habla Ingles ?

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:59:06 -0700

Vanilla Ice on Effective Communication

Sat, 02 May 2009 07:49:50 -0700

For Without Victory, There Is No Survival

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:20 -0700

For Kirstin

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:20 -0700

Video Games

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:21 -0700

War: Not Just For Soldiers Any More

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:30:57 -0700

XML Word List Parser

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:14:20 -0700

You Can't Get There From Here

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:20:21 -0700