On The Other Hand

So here we are, exactly three months since I quit smoking.  After the first couple of days it really hasn’t gotten any easier.  On the plus side, I don’t have to stand out in the freezing freakin’ cold every day.

 
In addition to all the unscheduled outages, my power company schedules time to piss off its online customers.  Way to go guys.

It tasted just as good as it looks.
I’m learnin’.

What does this mean?

I was recently looking at a calendar of holidays around the world and an interesting point struck me.  Take, for example, Canada Day.  Canada Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada on July 1’st.  However, if plotting it on an international calendar, when does it occur?  Well, Canada spans six time zones which are [...]

So Tim, Sam, Dare, Don,
Lots of people are clearly trying to work around the same-domain restriction that most browser developers have built into XmlHttpRequest. A quick Google search will reveal lots of ways to manipulate the DOM that will probably work. Canaries and other server side techniques appear to be the appropriate answer to this [...]

It’s been 48 days since my last cigarette.  I rock.

Here we are near the close of the second week of 2007.  Way back on January 2, I resolved to try to blog every day this year.  Perhaps it is fitting that I had already missed a day.  It seems I have a little work to do.
It all started badly and went uphill from there.  [...]

Lots of people have written about being in the zone.  If I think about it, almost every really creative, kick-ass piece of work I’ve ever churned out has been achieved between the hours of two and seven in the morning.

Well, here we are in 2007 and that means the annual new year’s resolutions.  For many years my resolution has remained the same — try to do fewer stupid things than I did last year.  I think that’s an admirable sentiment, but not exactly awe inspiring.  Also, after 16 years of smoking a pack a [...]