About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Jon Steinhorst once told me a movies are rewritten from script to shoot, and again from shoot to editing. I spent a good chunk of this week re-writing a Ruby on Rails app to go from development to production. Works fine in development. Not at all in production. The issue was a combination of frozen …
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From the St. Anthony Police Dept, 8:47am: “Our department is currently on the scene of a significant gas line break in the area of Old Highway 8 and County Road 88. At this time, officers are evacuating the residents of the Arbor’s Townhomes located in the immediate area of the break.” Update 9:20am: “The damage …
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I really dug tonight’s House (chess playing jerk kid). It was the only episode in memory where I thought the side-story was more interesting than the case.
Made some interface changes to the website. Brought back monthly and category archives, postings from the First Crack podcast and added my twitterings. All the sections in the ever-expanding bottom section are all expand-o-collapse in the effort to make some of the stuff at the bottom easier to reach. I’m wondering about the search-engine implications …
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Finally updated the WP-GotLucky download to the one I’ve been using, and David Seah fixed up for me. This version has RSS feeds by default (the previous one only did email) and automatically puts the most recent search queries in your Admin Dashboard.
“One thing I’ve noticed about talking to certain types of press, particularly mainstream, is that they have a pattern in mind before they write about something, and the better you conform to the pattern the more coverage you get.” – Matt Mullenweg, Automattic.com I did a little writing for my college paper. At the time …
This just in from the St. Anthony Police Department “Suspicious Activity” mailing list: On the morning of May 11th, two young boys were playing basketball in front of a home in the 3500 block of Belden. A black full-size van with tinted windows pulled up next to the driveway and the driver asked the boys …
QSPress now supports categories. But, I’m on a funky hotel internet right now, so I won’t be able to upload the new version until I get home tomorrow. We can celebrate then. Yeah!!! It’s up: QSPress 10 May 2007
30,000 feet up, on my way to a 3-day client meeting I took a tip from Doc Searls and stared at the landscape. That altitude provides a pretty good view of the roadway branding our country like a waffle iron. While I speculate most of these stretches of pavement are unused most of the time, …
Aside from the simplicity of drag-n-drop install, grabbing the duck by the head cracks me up.