I tried out hood.ie today after hearing about it a few times and I think it’s worth giving a shot, if you’re interested in rich web applications. It’s easy to install for what it does, which is set up a local node.js and couchdb environment with an admin interface. Deployment looks like it will be [...]
Tonight as I was walking around in downtown Boulder, someone outside a bar said hi to me and asked me how it was going. I saw he was in the mood for talking, and I didn’t mind, so I told him “Fine. Just getting used to not drinking.” I told him how I’d quit a [...]
I am drunk right now, and it’s fine. I am not falling down drunk but “I’ll drink more than I planned” drunk. I don’t have a source of alcohol and its effects are wearing off so I’ll be fine. But it’s clear to me that I’m better off without alcohol, because tonight I was feeling [...]
Wordpress has this filter that enforces camelcase capitalization of the word “Wordpress”. I disagree with this decision for two reasons: I prefer to have control over my software. Whether control is wrestled from me through legal means or by design, I don’t like it. I don’t think it’s a fully settled manner whether to use [...]
A while back, I bought islessmore.com and put up a page. It answers the question “is less more” with “No.”. My justification for this answer is that I think in the information age it is too hard to get a definitive answer to something, and the value of having a definitive answer to this simple [...]