Twelve days in Europe has revealed the following: Drinking good red wine with every dinner mellows you out Hanging in Italy and France during the World Cup is the only way to understand what soccer means to the rest of the world. My first night in Italy was the day of the USA versus Italy… More

Storms still ripping through NorCal. The forest below the house is wet, wet, wet and that means mushrooms. This particular growth in in the base of semi-dead oak. One of those yellow things is a big as your hand. It’s big. And freaky. And a big version.

The project list for the week off is extensive. Finish How to Lose Your Job, Pt. 2… seriously mess around with Photoshop via a fine Xmas gift from the Mom… tidy up my Del.icio.us bookmarks to make some sense… hey, I should clean-up my local bookmarks, as well. NOTE TO SELF. Oh yeah, I’m going… More

This weblog made it into this year’s Christmas letter and that makes it official — my Mom might be reading. This brings all sorts of represesed teenage censorship vibe into my head. Well, fuck that. As part of my Christmas Letter weblog blurb, I dug up some usage statistics regarding Rands In Repose. Interesting data:… More

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About 2pm every day, I get up to walk over to the cafeteria to get my afternoon caffeine hit… or I watch this video. I am so very sorry, it had to be done. [5/17/04 Update]: Yeah, the link is down. If anyone can find a mirror, I’d appreciate it. [5/17/04 Update #2]: Ok, we’re… More

The main motivation for updating the site was really a nit. The right sidebar looked liked crap on Safari and when I started tinkering with the HTML, I discovered my table-based layout was just not up to snuff. “Standards”, I thought, “XHTML and CSS. That’s the ticket.” Random notes from the experience: Let me first… More

The weblog is currently going through an update. Things are going to look a bit odd for the next couple of hours. More on the update in a bit. Happy New Year. Update #1: Sorry for the RSS spam — currently paying for past mistakes… Update #2: Ok, majority of the site is converted over…… More

An excerpt from the last three weeks of every significant software project I’ve shipped: scurry scurry scurry scurry BUG! LOOKS BAD SCURRY SCURRY SCURRY OK NOT THAT BAD PROCEED scurry scurry scurry scurry BUG! LOOKS REAL BAD SCURRY SCURRY CONFIRMED IT’S BAD SCURRY SCURRY OK FIXED FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE TEST THIS scurry… More

… to the new server and domain. I moved here a little earlier than expected, so some links and whatNot are broken. In particular, the archiving system has been completely rearchitected for OPTIMAL FUTURE LINKABILITY. Unfortunately, this means old links may be broken. PROGRESS HURTS. HOLLER IF YOU SEE THIS. If you had not already… More