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As little as I believe any of the 666 hype, there is no way I would intentionally associate it with one of my children (thanks Randy).
OK, so these parents are horror movie fans who loved the film The Omen and named their child (born 6/6/6, just after 6AM, weighing 6 lbs. 6 oz.) “Damien” to [...]
Trade in their Italian suits for Kids R Us cargo pants. Judge Gregory A. Presnell of Orlando, tired of the childish inability of opposing counsel to agree on anything without his intervention, ordered them to decide on the location of a deposition via the time-honored playground arbiter: rock, paper scissors (thanks GMSV).
He could have [...]
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
- Interactive Shockwave fractal picture
A picture mosaic composed of pictures composed of pictures composed of pictures... - Google It You Moron.
Something to link end users to when they're asking a question for the nth time, where n is one less than your strangle threshhold.
- Interactive Shockwave fractal picture
A picture mosaic composed of pictures composed of pictures composed of pictures... - Google It You Moron.
Something to link end users to when they're asking a question for the nth time, where n is one less than your strangle threshhold.
I got my beta invitation to try out Farecast, a new service that helps you plan flights (thanks TechCrunch). For the beta, they only provide info on flights from Seattle or Boston, but my home airport is Seattle so no problem there. This service does at least two things better than Expedia and [...]
Well, I’ve had a chance to ruminate on the blog design advice I received from Randy Charles Morin and TDavid, particularly with regard to ad placement. Trying to balance my goals, I ended up with what you see before you (if you’re reading at my site). Here are some highlights:
The combined page header [...]
I’ve often thought that if there is a God, he must have a sick sense of humor. Thanks Randy.
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
Blogging is the jazz of writing. You could call it “word jazz”, but that’s already taken. Chris Vallancourt has the right name for a blog: “Verbal Jazz“. How is blogging like jazz? Fill in the blanks below with either “blogging” or “jazz”:
_______ is spontaneous. It’s what hits you at the [...]
You just can’t beat Ruby for simple, elegant solutions. I was inspired by this list of one-liners for Ruby (as in one-line programs, not “Now take Perl…please”) to post a seven-line solution to a mailing list management problem I had. You can read all about it and download the code over at Chip’s [...]
Well, I’ve had a chance to ruminate on the blog design advice I received from Randy Charles Morin and TDavid, particularly with regard to ad placement. Trying to balance my goals, I ended up with what you see before you (if you’re reading at my site). Here are some highlights:
The combined page header [...]
I’ve often thought that if there is a God, he must have a sick sense of humor. Thanks Randy.
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
- http://www.fepus.net/ruby1line.txt
Handy one-liners for Ruby (one-line programs, that is. Not, "Now take Perl...please") - Snipperoo widget directory
There’s nothing quite like being made to dig your own grave (thanks Slashdot). Sorry, Tom, some aspects of outsourcing just aren’t pretty.
Well, I’ve had a chance to ruminate on the blog design advice I received from Randy Charles Morin and TDavid, particularly with regard to ad placement. Trying to balance my goals, I ended up with what you see before you (if you’re reading at my site). Here are some highlights:
The combined page header [...]
I’ve often thought that if there is a God, he must have a sick sense of humor. Thanks Randy.
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
- Fun with Widgets » Nothing to see here
Wordpress text widget that allows PHP code!
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
Well, I’ve had a chance to ruminate on the blog design advice I received from Randy Charles Morin and TDavid, particularly with regard to ad placement. Trying to balance my goals, I ended up with what you see before you (if you’re reading at my site). Here are some highlights:
The combined page header [...]
I’ve often thought that if there is a God, he must have a sick sense of humor. Thanks Randy.
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
Well, I’ve had a chance to ruminate on the blog design advice I received from Randy Charles Morin and TDavid, particularly with regard to ad placement. Trying to balance my goals, I ended up with what you see before you (if you’re reading at my site). Here are some highlights:
The combined page header [...]
I’ve often thought that if there is a God, he must have a sick sense of humor. Thanks Randy.
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
Well, I’ve had a chance to ruminate on the blog design advice I received from Randy Charles Morin and TDavid, particularly with regard to ad placement. Trying to balance my goals, I ended up with what you see before you (if you’re reading at my site). Here are some highlights:
The combined page header [...]
I’ve often thought that if there is a God, he must have a sick sense of humor. Thanks Randy.
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
If you try to play it safe in the beginning
You get very limited choices in the end
Sometimes it’s too late to do anything, true
But it’s amazing how late in the game you can turn things around
By doing something unexpected
Randy Charles Morin posts a grid of blogging platforms and features. He then asks, “Which platforms do you think I’m missing? What other features do you think I should list? Am I wrong on any of the features?”
The platform I first used is not shown: Marko’s muBlog (I used “mu” in place of the [...]
Hey guess what, I’m Randy Charles Morin’s Blogger of the Day! I’m pretty honored to be considered an “average-Joe great-blogger”.
Even though my name isn’t Joe.
I did have a grandfather named Joe, and he was top-notch.?? A real sage.
Of course, he hardly ever said anything.? Sure way to be found wise: don’t say anything, [...]
This is a reason to blog, and to read blogs. It’s also why Chip’s Tips for Developers and participation in on-line forums like synergy-l@synergex.com and tek-tips.com helps me become more successful. You don’t always have to do billable work to get ahead, in the long run.
Before I sprinkled a few words into the verbal deluge on the subject of Scoble’s exodus from the evil empire I wanted to read a lot of what has already been said, especially what Scoble himself had to say on the subject, so I wouldn’t say anything astoundingly stupid. Let’s see how well that [...]
Olivier Messiaen equated musical chords with colors; now this site will create a musical version of your web site, based on the structure of its HTML tags (thanks TDavid).
I had some trouble with the site at first, and then I had to do some other things and forgot about it. TDavid was nice enough to [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
- Word Generator by Elver Loho
Great for coming up with fictional names for things -- like on-line identities. - The Joy of Tech comic... laughter is the best tech support.
The annoying behaviour of the RIAA Scum Bird - [Geeks are Sexy] technology news: Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP
- Veerle's blog - CSS links
Great links to CSS resources -- thanks, TDavid!
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
The WordPress Widgets blog gave my OPML Blogroll widget a back-handed compliment: “too cool for school”, suggesting I cache the OPML to avoid hitting the server on every page view. Sensible idea.
I went one better and updated it to cache the entire formatted blogroll content using the WordPress built-in caching functions (somewhat thinly documented, [...]
The WordPress Widgets blog gave my OPML Blogroll widget a back-handed compliment: “too cool for school”, suggesting I cache the OPML to avoid hitting the server on every page view. Sensible idea.
I went one better and updated it to cache the entire formatted blogroll content using the WordPress built-in caching functions (somewhat thinly documented, [...]
Regarding the present collective corporate exodus, Tom Raftery reminded me that it was Tara Hunt that started this current wave of migration. Gee, I hope my omission wasn’t a symptom of fading female syndrome.
Good luck to Tara, Robert, Om, and everyone else making the jump to new opportunities based on their personal brand.
I’ll say [...]
Regarding the present collective corporate exodus, Tom Raftery reminded me that it was Tara Hunt that started this current wave of migration. Gee, I hope my omission wasn’t a symptom of fading female syndrome.
Good luck to Tara, Robert, Om, and everyone else making the jump to new opportunities based on their personal brand.
I’ll say [...]
The “How Cynical Am I?” widget in my sidebar was generated by answering a questionnaire from BlogThings (thanks Randy). I liked the results, so I added it to my sidebar. The 48% score, and the description that goes with it, seems nicely balanced — which suits a Libra well.
One of the yes/no choices [...]
- Labnotes » Blog Archive » Announcing Active Record Data Objects
Just in case you were wondering how "Enterprise" is a joke... - YouTube - Zuiikin Gals II
Bizarre -- via Boing Boing - Explore Shakespeare with Google
The complete plays of Shakespeare (or whomever that was)
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
TDavid tried out the cynicism poll I linked to yesterday and came up only 24% cynical. At exactly double his cynicism level, I’m feeling almost Winerish.
Looking back over the questions, I’m not even sure how I answered some of them. I agree with TDavid on most of his analysis, but here are a [...]
After adding caching to my OPML Blogroll widget for WordPress, I realized that my Tag Cloud widget could also benefit from caching. After all, it requires a database SELECT and quite a bit of array and text processing to build that tag cloud, and the cloud only changes when I add or edit a [...]
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
- TagFetch :: Home
Searches mutliple sites for tags -- thanks Lifehacker
It’s often hard to tell whether Valleywag is talking straight or into the side of its cheek, but Nick claims to like Zillow, an online service that estimates the value of a home given its address.
After you enter an address, Zillow presents a nifty aerial view of the neighborhood, with property lines drawn and values [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
Well, I might be as gross as Randy, but at least I’m not as quirky:
Your Quirk Factor: 66%
You’re so quirky, it’s hard for you to tell the difference between quirky and normal.
No doubt about it, there’s little about you that’s “normal” or “average.”
How Quirky Are You?
Something tells me the quirk factor should relatively high among [...]
Your Fortune Is
7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.
The Wacky Fortune Cookie Generator
The one I always liked is: “There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”
You Are 30% Addicted to Blogthings
Okay, so you know how to take and post a Blogthing.
But you’re no addict. (Hey, this quiz *proves* it!)
For you, Blogthings is more of a healthy habit.
At least, that’s what you tell yourself!
How Addicted To Blogthings Are You?
…today.
UPDATE: Randy’s got the bigger jones.
It’s from BBspot:
Which OS are You?
I’ve always loved UNIX, though I was hoping for something a little more up to date. It could have been worse — a lot worse.
The questions in this quiz are better than the result. This was my favorite:
Will the answers to these questions really help you determine [...]
Dare Obasanjo, Scoble, and TechCrunch are all reporting on Gates’ plan to pass the baton to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie, so he can spend more time on his charity work. Dare excerpts the press release.
The times they are a changin’
Philip Su has a great post on why the schedule for Microsoft Windows Vista has slipped so much (thanks Scoble). Apparently, it was first posted here and created a “rallying point for detractors”, so he chopped it. That in turn caused a “firestorm of speculation” about the motives (or pressures) for chopping it, [...]
James Holderness posts concerning the Scylla and Charybdis encountered when encoding titles in RSS 2.0 feeds. He tested as many alternatives as he could imagine in a variety of aggregators. It turns out that no matter how you encode certain characters (’&’ and ‘
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
You Are 30% Addicted to Blogthings
Okay, so you know how to take and post a Blogthing.
But you’re no addict. (Hey, this quiz *proves* it!)
For you, Blogthings is more of a healthy habit.
At least, that’s what you tell yourself!
How Addicted To Blogthings Are You?
…today.
UPDATE: Randy’s got the bigger jones.
My feed subscriptions change day to day, and I’m very bad about updating the blogroll on my blog to reflect that. Never mind trying to keep sites like Share Your OPML up to date as well. That only happens when I think about it. If I’m not busy. And I have [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
You Are 30% Addicted to Blogthings
Okay, so you know how to take and post a Blogthing.
But you’re no addict. (Hey, this quiz *proves* it!)
For you, Blogthings is more of a healthy habit.
At least, that’s what you tell yourself!
How Addicted To Blogthings Are You?
…today.
UPDATE: Randy’s got the bigger jones.
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
You Are 30% Addicted to Blogthings
Okay, so you know how to take and post a Blogthing.
But you’re no addict. (Hey, this quiz *proves* it!)
For you, Blogthings is more of a healthy habit.
At least, that’s what you tell yourself!
How Addicted To Blogthings Are You?
…today.
UPDATE: Randy’s got the bigger jones.
Chip’s Quips experienced a temporary outage this morning, reporting a MySQL error 28. That seems to have righted itself now, and I’m working with my ISP to try to figure out why it happened.
I found this helpful entry in the WordPress Wiki, if any other WordPress users ever suffer from the same symptom.
I’m guessing [...]
Seth Godin gets it right (as usual): Joel can write. A very good read — Joel paints you right into the picture of how things (used to) work inside Microsoft.
I absolutely agree with Joel’s conclusion that non-programmers cannot manage programmers. I’ve seen them suspect honest feedback while swallowing bullshit too many times. [...]
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
You Are 30% Addicted to Blogthings
Okay, so you know how to take and post a Blogthing.
But you’re no addict. (Hey, this quiz *proves* it!)
For you, Blogthings is more of a healthy habit.
At least, that’s what you tell yourself!
How Addicted To Blogthings Are You?
…today.
UPDATE: Randy’s got the bigger jones.
Valleywag has the scoop, but we’re still waiting to here from the GigaOM himself: Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 and taking funding to ramp up his tech blog into an independent business. Still on amicable terms with Business 2.0, he will continue as a contributing editor.
That makes two revolutionary resignations breaking news [...]
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