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Oct 31st

Walked into the office this morning, greeted by a wave of steam and mildew. Apparently a radiator...

Oct 31st

Today I’m working from work. #thought_you_should_know

Oct 31st

7 jQuery Effects to Sell More Templates - In...

Oct 31st

some day one of my tweets will actually be favrd by *two* people. but not today.

Oct 31st

This is hot: http://ping.fm/Vx9fX

Oct 31st

The Unfinished Swan

Oct 31st

Matt Cutts just commented on my SearchWiki post :) http://tr.im/nzt

Oct 30th

Munching ceviche at de Mole with @popthestack.

Oct 30th

I can tell t’s a good morning when I make it to Techmeme before I make it to work :)

Oct 29th

Pixelated Software: Mac OS X Software With...

Oct 28th

Forget umbrellatoday.com … I need wearchuckstoday.com

Oct 28th

Desperately need to do laundry, no time to do it. Today and tomorrow just upgraded to ‘casual...

Oct 28th

SearchWiki - Google's customized social...

Oct 28th

Check out SearchWiki, Google’s experimental social search tool. Video, screenshots here -...

Oct 28th

SearchWiki - Google's customized social...

Oct 28th

WikiSearch - Google's customized social...

Oct 28th

Guy next to me on the subway is reading an Amway intro pack. Don’t do it, buddy! It’s a...

Oct 28th

http://tr.im/barr - I’m half tempted to vote for the mustache…

Oct 28th

Google serp editing is back, this time called SearchWiki. SWEET!

Oct 28th

I get the feeling White Castle might be What I Crave a bit less often if it were a few blocks less...

Oct 28th

Voting. Because some celebrity posted a youtube video about it, prob’ly.

Oct 28th

Best. Thing. Ever. http://tr.im/caravan

Oct 28th

YouTube - Caravan Crashes

Oct 28th

Five point releases and Apple still hasn’t blatantly ripped off Stack overlay drawers? Looks...

Oct 27th

This is why I hate talking on the phone: http://tr.im/callme (@shauninman)

Oct 27th

#lastfm #love Look For The Woman by Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip http://bit.ly/wuFC6

Oct 27th

Followcost made some updates. Check out what it does when you evaluate tweeps like @DearRobot:...

Oct 27th

Shaping user interface barriers

Oct 26th

Facebook Developers | Scribe

Oct 26th

“the universe may have been designed by some kind of locksmith.”

Oct 26th

My head asplode: http://tr.im/FallacyFallacy

Oct 26th

Hey there, http://lastfmlovetweet.com/ … I’d completely forgotten about you. Welcome to...

Oct 26th

How to tell I’m a nerd, #153: I spent several hours today fixing a site design that bugged me,...

Oct 26th

#lastfm #love People Are Strange by Echo & the Bunnymen http://bit.ly/2BVrly

Oct 26th

[blogged] “Swiss Army” software http://tinyurl.com/5lm74z

Oct 26th

On-line Image Map Tool - Upload, Map, Copy...

Oct 26th

"Swiss Army" software

Oct 26th

*Quite* disturbed that @abatchelor’s blog asks me for my Twitter credentials before the page...

Oct 26th

Dear @blogtoit - http://tr.im/kt2

Oct 26th

According to Music Week, 715 cassette singles sold in the year 2007. No word on who still had a...

Oct 26th

While the Vandals and other Germanic tribes were extreme, they did not, in fact, “rock a...

Oct 26th

You’ve gotta admit, the middle name would come in handy if Obama turned out to be a...

Oct 26th

There are few things that achieve the “awesome-per-effort” ratio of pre-cooked, brown...

Oct 26th

Slightly bugged that the pagination on the @favrd leaderboard says ‘older’ when it...

Oct 25th

Come on Craigslist. You block my post because it has a link in it. I remove the link and repost. You...

Oct 25th

[blogged] What’s the deal with Microsoft’s Live Search results?...

Oct 25th

What's the deal with Microsoft's Live Search...

Oct 25th

Bizarre server log find of the week: Someone Googled the phrase “dot like this google check...

Oct 25th

Did you seriously just send me 15 copies of that email newsletter I didn’t sign up for?...

Oct 25th

My least favorite part of iTunes - http://tr.im/iTunes

Oct 25th

This robot is cooler than 79 percent of Twitter users: http://twitter.grader.com/dearrobot

Oct 25th

My least favorite chunk of iTunes on Flickr -...

Oct 25th

The Lack Thereof: TLT - 2007.11.30 - MySQL...

Oct 25th

I may have failed Inbox Zero, but I’ve got Google Reader Zero down to an art!

Oct 25th

If at first you don’t succeed, look for a ‘tear here’ label.

Oct 25th

Quick show of hands: Does the @RedactBot tweet style read more as an aggregation/retweet than...

Oct 25th

Eating a four-foot-long Pixy Stix because “wheee!”

Oct 25th

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Oct 25th

It somehow validates my chuckle when I click through to a tweet from the Favrd feed and find out a...

Oct 24th

Pro tip: If you’re going to call someone dumb three times in the same sentence, you should be...

Oct 24th

Poking [redacted] script a little more. Exciting stuffs :)

Oct 24th

[REDACTED]’s staging server is absolutely awful. It’s currently serving 4 different...

Oct 24th

It’s interesting to see how people self-identify when presented with an open text field...

Oct 24th

Dear every search field ever made: Things in quotes mean ‘I want this exact phrase’. Not...

Oct 24th

If the language you’re using has a primitive boolean type, please refrain from using 0/1 to...

Oct 23rd

Just installed Brightkite for iPhone. Brightkite is now usable. Thanks, guys.

Oct 23rd

The lack of interface feedback in the iTunes App Library is quite annoying.

Oct 23rd

10:1 follower ratio == sketchy, prob’ly spam. 200:1 follower ratio == block without a second...

Oct 23rd

FriendDA -- Slightly more than a hearty...

Oct 23rd

I’m #7 :) http://tr.im/math

Oct 23rd

This is perfect: http://friendda.org/

Oct 23rd

Just showed an interviewee a SQL injection for a production code sample he showed us.

Oct 22nd

kickin’ it with @popthestack

Oct 22nd

not a fan of SUSE.

Oct 21st

OH: ‘Everyone with a Reserve ticket, start lining up. If you have a Flex ticket, go to the...

Oct 20th

http://brokershandsontheirfacesblog.tumblr.com/

Oct 19th

mostly awake.

Oct 19th

THE BROKERS WITH HANDS ON THEIR FACES BLOG

Oct 19th

Probability of me clicking the IM spam links to “video chat with you” on some dating...

Oct 18th

Awesome Twitter search: http://tr.im/isdown (who needs a server monitoring package when you have...

Oct 18th

"is down" - Twitter Search

Oct 18th

You’re all lucky you’re not in the same room as me. #just-saying #silent-but-deadly

Oct 18th

was going to tweet something snarky about the guy dancing next to me. you’ll have to settle...

Oct 18th

http://twitpic.com/grg5 - I poop in the jungle.

Oct 17th

Ahh. That’s why Mollom was sucking and letting a bunch of spam post on my site. Something,...

Oct 17th

“Fetching obsoletes list (may take a while, be patient)” … Wow. Centos...

Oct 17th

Wait. I can’t use your site because I don’t have *Flash 6* installed? http://tr.im/flash

Oct 17th

Confession: I often get off the subway one stop too soon, because then I have to walk past White...

Oct 17th

White Castle Flash version detection fail on...

Oct 17th

Fake model photography

Oct 17th

It’s hard to take Twitter Grader (@grader) seriously:...

Oct 16th

Pro tip: making me click on the “order now” button before showing me how much...

Oct 16th

Is Twitter throttling individual tweet pages? I’m getting these pages sans actions...

Oct 16th

(For the record, I did abandon my transaction, exactly as I predicted. I wonder what their...

Oct 16th

Mollom. Why must you fail me so spectacularly?

Oct 16th

If you “concentrate on all industries” that’s not concentrating. Moron.

Oct 16th

Dear New York, this is a love letter to you and how you brought us together. We can’t say...

Oct 16th

Google webmaster tools confirms the issues I’ve been having with my webhost. Is it time to...

Oct 16th

Too early to wake up, too late to go back to bed. I’m going to try the “back to...

Oct 16th

Another day of meeting.

Oct 15th

OH @stevefrancia ‘I want you to forget the old and jump with me to web-two-and-a-half point...

Oct 15th

Aww. Come on. Someone ate all but one slice of my lunch meat. There was a quarter pound of ham last...

Oct 14th

Tap Tap Tap is breaking up? Will I ever get to see the grocery list app I’ve been waiting for?...

Oct 14th

Ghetto ergonomics... on TwitPic

Oct 14th

Some time this afternoon @DearRobot passed me. Almost 7000 letters sent in the past week and a half!

Oct 14th

“This document was successfully checked as -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//GO ROBOT GO!”

Oct 14th

Silly Canadians - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobthecow/2940303380/

Oct 14th

s is spilling Jones cream soda on my laptop. Luckily it’s the bottom one....

Oct 14th

updating.

Oct 13th

Hmmm. This guy seems pretty cool, but why am I friends with him on Facebook?

Oct 13th

Yay unit testing!

Oct 13th

Seriously Hulu? 30 second ad before a 30 second video clip?

Oct 13th

Ad removal as a freemium service: Ma.gnolia’s got the right idea, adds a social twist -...

Oct 13th

Dear webhost A: Every time you go down I transfer another site to webhost B. That two so far today....

Oct 13th

Twitter web updates now work with the ‘in reply to’ parameter! Awesome!

Oct 13th

Attention designers: The sounds your websites make aren’t as clever or necessary as you think....

Oct 12th

Good VCs will fund good companies...

Oct 12th

Rick Astley would never: 1) Give You Up. 2) Let You Down. 3) Run Around and Desert You. 4) Make You...

Oct 12th

[blogged] Good VCs will fund good companies… http://tinyurl.com/4775dy

Oct 12th

Awesome. Tried “import Twitter contacts” on @GetSatisfaction, it suggested three hundred...

Oct 12th

FriendFeed doesn’t link back to source for aggregated microblog updates? Dirty.

Oct 12th

I’ve lost my faith in vegetarians: http://tr.im/croc

Oct 12th

You’d think fresh mozzarella quesadillas would be a little bit weird but you’re wrong....

Oct 12th

Favorites: http://tr.im/xkcd

Oct 12th

Making quesadillas with fresh mozarella. A guy’s gotta do what a guy’s gotta do.

Oct 12th

bobthecow's xkcd and favorites Bookmarks on...

Oct 12th

IN UR REALITY

Oct 12th

Begging the question(s) on Flickr - Photo...

Oct 12th

Insomnia

Oct 12th

Unlike the tool posted by @stevefrancia, http://friendorfollow.com/ can actually tell who...

Oct 11th

Spammers are keeping up with current events: 38% of my spam today is about dealing with the current...

Oct 11th

Passed a bum peeing on bread crates stacked outside McDonalds. Someone’s making minimum wage...

Oct 11th

The MPG Parking logo has terrible keming.

Oct 11th

This sucks way more than the mortgages and wall street shenanigans: http://tr.im/cookie :(

Oct 10th

Mother's Cookies abruptly shut down

Oct 9th

Annoying: Sometimes FF3/Mac decides the ‘unmaximize’ button really means ‘smash...

Oct 9th

Firefox + AutoPager + xkcd == neverending awesome. FTW.

Oct 9th

I’m just one more abandoned shopping cart today. Sorry Amazon. I kinda feel bad for messing up...

Oct 9th

Removing .DS_Store files on Macintosh OS X?

Oct 9th

You know what Apple? Curse you and your deprecated charger. My phone is dead thanks to your...

Oct 9th

Of course I have a zombie plan: http://tr.im/zombies

Oct 9th

breakingstuffs

Oct 9th

[blogged] Two Equal and Opposite Errors http://tinyurl.com/3wfafq

Oct 9th

Two Equal and Opposite Errors

Oct 9th

A Softer World: 342

Oct 9th

Socialized: Hey Marketing, There is No Social...

Oct 8th

Dear Twitter: I’m not following you guys for your political commentary. Where did the poop...

Oct 8th

SIP phone shopping. Any suggestions?

Oct 8th

Trying all the Air apps today. So far, Alert Thingy is cleanest, plus bonus: THEY DO FRIENDFEED!

Oct 8th

Tweetdeck: A little more usable, still kinda ugly.

Oct 8th

Dear Apple: For Christmas, I’d like a three-finger touchpad swipe up/down to do hyperscroll on...

Oct 8th

This resume is a winner. He’s a “metallurgist with bronze and pewter casting...

Oct 8th

The single most important Ubiquity verb: http://tr.im/8ul

Oct 8th

Pro Tip: You *couldn’t* care less. *COULDN’T*

Oct 8th

Hey there @lyndoman, you seem interesting, but you followed my username squatting account...

Oct 8th

[link] “I will do one thing today” http://tinyurl.com/4axx3k

Oct 8th

Bitten

Oct 7th

"I will do one thing today"

Oct 7th

Updating an *old* resource lib file… I’ll be sad to see this comment go: //JOHN WHAT IS...

Oct 6th

‘Too much of a good thing is an awesome thing. But too much of an awesome thing...

Oct 6th

I have a bacon shirt. #thought_you_should_know

Oct 6th

Pro Tip: Your IDE that automatically generates docblocks is lying. This function returns int, not...

Oct 6th

DEAR APPLE: ENOUGH WITH THE STUPID PHANTOM TEXT ALERTS. I KNOW I HAVE UNREAD MESSAGES. I’M...

Oct 6th

“/etc/init.d/httpd graceful” == “hey, when you get a second, would you mind...

Oct 6th

Ahh. http://iSepta.org … That would have come in handy an hour ago :)

Oct 6th

Any of the VNC variants, because they are fairly ubiquitous.

Oct 6th

It has come to my attention that I currently have 34 domains. That might be too many.

Oct 6th

Excuse me, Mr. Time Server, but you’re horribly wrong. Like 3:40 off… How’s that...

Oct 6th

Orbit Cinnamint: neither cinnamon nor mint. A weaksauce attempt at a compromise. Disappointing.

Oct 6th

I can see why AT$T/Apple might not want people tethering lappys to the 3G. This is *quick*

Oct 6th

#LDSConf trended for about 8 hours today: http://tweetstats.com/trends

Oct 6th

Best RSS decision I ever made: tagging half my feeds as ‘kill’, liberal use of...

Oct 6th

I’d say this room is close enough to clean.

Oct 6th

[blogged] The perfect subway app http://tinyurl.com/5y6nly

Oct 6th

“Butt dyno” indicates laptop/iPhone/AT&T 3G tether is significantly faster than...

Oct 6th

iPhone app developers: If you think your app should have a progress meter while loading,...

Oct 6th

Best ‘warm fuzzy’ todo list task ever: ‘check at least one thing off todo list per...

Oct 6th

My robot has terrible uptime. And crazzzy CPU spikes. Yay monit.

Oct 6th

The perfect subway app

Oct 6th

Should have left my compy up… I’m on an unsecured wireless link for the next couple...

Oct 4th

There’s a High School Musical 3? Is this really necessary?

Oct 4th

Almost got on a bus to Boston instead of Philly just now. Disaster averted.

Oct 4th

I can haz SOCKS. Secure WiFi FTW.

Oct 4th

Eating a delicious Death Shake. For science.

Oct 4th

According to my calculations I’m 1300 calories into this shake. http://tr.im/milkshake

Oct 4th

1800 calories into this milkshake and I’ve had enough. But I’ll finish it. For science....

Oct 4th

not sure what I’m looking for, but I’ll know when I find it.

Oct 4th

You remind me of the http://tr.im/babe

Oct 4th

Latest iTunes update still has hover/click state inconsistencies in the Apps section. Come on, guys....

Oct 4th

Finished my Death Shake. 2500 calories of Awesome. For Science.

Oct 4th

I don’t think so.

Oct 4th

Starting my todo list with an easy one today: Take a shower. Should be able to get that done at...

Oct 4th

Feel like I have to do penance for that milkshake last night. Oatmeal for breakfast :)

Oct 4th

[blogged] Technophobe Is Starting to Get a Decent Collection of iPhone Apps...

Oct 4th

Yeah. That last one was a D. I’m a moron.

Oct 4th

As usual, the “People you may know” section on my Facebook account is a veritable...

Oct 4th

The 7 train playing a doorbell chime instead of the “get out of the doors” ding, and...

Oct 4th

Dear @pingfm: I love the “post to Delicious” option for links. I do wish you’d...

Oct 4th

You remind me of the babe...

Oct 4th

Technophobe Is Starting to Get a Decent...

Oct 4th

i broke @DearRobot last night and didn’t even notice :(

Oct 3rd

Headache. No me gusta.

Oct 3rd

Awesome: http://tr.im/shuriken

Oct 3rd

Pastrami burger = just what the doctor ordered. Rather, exactly the opposite of what a...

Oct 3rd

?? http://www.scalzi.com/cattapebacon2.jpg

Oct 3rd

Installed: http://tr.im/bgr … Last.fm, Pandora, and Simplify now run as background apps. This...

Oct 3rd

Hey there, Mr Whale. I haven’t seen you in a while. How are you doing?

Oct 3rd

I’m so done with this headache.

Oct 3rd

Pandora’s iPhone app software bundle id is simply ‘com.pandora’ …...

Oct 3rd

Documentation - iphone-backgrounder - Google...

Oct 2nd

Farewell, NDA

Oct 2nd

YouTube - Echo & The Bunnymen - Gods Will Be...

Oct 1st

iPhone Developer Program

Oct 1st

Farewell, NDA

Oct 1st