so cool, literally: case made out of case fans #
i’ve been living in california for just over two weeks. wow. it feels like longer really. tomorrow i’m flying to dayton, ohio and then driving to liberty, indiana getting in quite late, but i’m not sure exactly what time it…
Every morning I head west on 9th Street in Santa Rosa to Stony Point and then get on Occidental Road all the way to Sebastopol. The 15 or so minute commute to O’Reilly could be considered one of the perks…
thank you jay for turning me on to aroma roasters. open til 11 on weeknights, midnight on weekends and the wireless is free. not too fast i’m discovering. but free. i’m sipping a banana refresca which is like milkshake heaven.…
unfortunately this took me a long time to get around to. i got the following request in response to my monthchunks for wordpress post: So is there any way that someone still on Blogger (waves hand in the air with…
Last weekend (June 4-5, 2005), on the occasion of my cousin Casey’s high school graduation in Liberty, Indiana, the Barnette family—descendants of my maternal grandmother—gathered to celebrate. My grandmother, seated at the center, had three daughters, standing in the back…
Back when I was developing applications with Microsoft Access, one of my favorite reference books–that I often described as being worth its weight in gold–was the Access Cookbook. I actually learned VBA by going through the chunks of code in…
I would like a Firefox Extension that allows me to: View Source in New Tab (View Rendered Sources comes close, but I don’t need all the rendered gunk) Toggle between whether a tab renders the HTML source or displays the…
I relate to such sentiments in a whole new way (now that I work for O’Reilly). Tim Bray: O’Reilly books unfortunately were harmed in its making This post first appeared on From the Belly of the Beasts, a weblog from…
i made a new sticker. it’s a humorous reference to the several hours i spent last night debugging ravingmadness’s haloscan screen scraping code (to which i have previously referred people in my moving from blogger to wordpress post) in order…
File this under books I didn’t know O’Reilly published. Uncle Eli’s Passover Haggadah Everyone will love this delightful children’s Haggadah. Its beautiful illustrations and enchanting rhymes will transform your traditional Seder into a magical experience, while capturing the hearts and…
A few times a week an email gets sent to webmaster at oreilly dot com from someone intending to get through to Bill O’Reilly. Yeah, that Bill O’Reilly. It turns out there is actually a bill at oreilly dot com…
in may’s issue of wired they included a short feature that resonated with me when i read it. the monthly cost of living in the digital age. and apparently, i’m not the only one. even though i admit at times…
I’m going to have to get a TV so I can start watching The O’Reilly Factor just to stay in touch with this inadvertent O’Reilly subculture. Maybe find a way to get them turned onto Perl as a way to…
John Battelle is doing something and Tim is involved: I’m proud to announce that FM has closed an angel round of financing featuring an extraordinary lineup of investors. Omidyar Network led the round, with The New York Times Company and…
is it a coincidence that tech geeks jeremy zawodny, phillip greenspun, and mark fletcher all fly airplanes/gliders? doesn’t the time it takes to learn to fly take away from their alpha geekiness? i imagine there must be other techies who…
…or i become an importer? at this year’s o’reilly emerging technology conference i attended a talk by amazon’s werner vogels entitled e-commerce at an interplanetary scale. the talk was at times irreverent and other times totally over my head. irreverent…
Being the “new guy,” I had to attend an ergonomics orientation yesterday morning, led by an guy from our insurance company. Which makes sense if you think about it. Lower the incidence of RSI and you improve productivity while decreasing…
Update, please read this first! The instructions below only worked for WordPress 1.5, 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 before Google released a new version of Blogger—which broke the WordPress importer. Since that time, these instructions have ceased to be useful. However,…
Nigel McFarlane, author of O’Reilly’s Firefox Hacks as well as Rapid Application Development with Mozilla (both books I owned before coming to work for O’Reilly), has passed away. I don’t know the details, and found out about it first via…
Dare Obasanjo: Gnomedex 5.0 Trip Report: Dean Hachamovitch on Longhorn, IE 7 and RSS Phil Ringnalda: MS embraces RSS Sam Ruby: Simple List Questions This post first appeared on From the Belly of the Beasts, a weblog from some of…
Man, I shoulda went to Gnomedex. RSS, err, I mean syndication was all the rage. Dare Obasanjo notes that Mark Fletcher of Bloglines…pleaded with the audience to stop the practice of providing the same feed in multiple formats. Having the…
it bothers me that sometimes i sit in front of my computer, and i don’t have anything to do. yet i can’t unglue myself from the computer. i check my gmail account and my unc email. i check bloglines and…
Yeah, poking fun at potential customers or authors is probably not so cool if you’re a for-profit publishing company. Oops. That said, if you’re interested in writing for O’Reilly definitely take a look at the link below. –Justin Check out…
Ben Hammersley: While developers in the US are being hamstrung by their courts, and their counterparts in Europe are about to have software patents kick the chair out from under them, the developers in the warm and cheap places are…
let’s say you’ve got a text or varchar column in mysql and you want to replace some portion of the field with new text. for instance maybe you want to change all instances of the word “colour” with “color”. column…
what is up with blogger? blogger has always been this great free service, and they should be credited with bootstrapping the whole self-publishing phenomenom and making it easy for people to host their blog with minimal technical background required. and…
I got to say, this post, Undecipherable Specification Error, by Sam Ruby is brilliant, and a terrific look into the moment by moment minutia of a technology in motion that may just well touch everything. This post first appeared on…
Clever typography in an ad I just noticed on one of our websites. (remixed from the original banner format so it would all fit here) Given the ubiquity of http://, it’s funny to see it popping up in other domains.…
Just before I left North Carolina for California I got an email from Enda O’Donoghue, an Irish artist based in Germany, asking whether he could use one of my photos as the basis for a painting. He acknowledged my public…
so cool, literally: case made out of case fans #
finding myself on the web at the going away party #
interesting read: How to Become an Early Riser #
cool: Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner blog #
song: enjoying cursive – the recluse on somafm #
yeyah: Lifecycle of Bloggers #
IBM says LAMP users need to grow up, and this dude ryan tomayko calls bullshit #
at the sonoma country fairgrounds this weekend: the harmony festival (suddenly i realize i’m in california) #
photo of the day: French wookie murder attempt #
didn’t know that before: [he] has the long pinky nails that are a sign of male vanity in much of the world #
a-ha! says wikipedia: In some (Asian) cultures men also will grow long fingernails, or only the nail on the little finger, to show that they do not do much manual labor, but instead work in an office setting. #
great song joseph arthur – in the sun (first heard on the l word) #
love this quote, gotta love corporate america: rumors have been flying around about Apple having a secret build of Mac OS X running on Intel machines (codenamed “Marklar”) in some darkened wing of the Cupertino campus (love the “darkened wing” imagery) #
the setup for this video is so wacky: Green lasers, red balloons and robot dogs #
phrase of the day: 4-hour wikipedia party #
holy fuck ofoto! “Your order has been cancelled because it appears your order contains one of the following… 1. Professional images.” She could proceed to print only if she signed an affidavit warranting that she was the photographer or had permission from the copyright owner. #
whoa: Programmers, artists, and testers aren’t paid for their bulging muscles and phenomenal ability to move mass from point A to point B. They’re paid for their brains. Longer hours or, especially, insufficient sleep (as little as 1-2 hours less per night) does serious damage to their ability to use those brains productively. (crunch mode, 8 hour work day, 40 hour work week) #
possibly my favorite song right now: iron and wine – passing afternoon #
to do in santa rosa, courtesy of Community Market Natural Foods (hmm, wondering if this is like santa rosa’s weaver street market…) #
ugh, utterly gross: A man’s leg and part of his spine came crashing onto the roof of a woman’s home [emphasis added] #
getting a lot of hits today from people searching for google using google images and clicking on the picture of bart simpson writing “i will use google before asking dumb questions” (i wonder why?) #
wow: dual self-portraits: Dialogue With the peasants of Tiangonsi Villages by Chen Shaofeng #
my fav url of the day: neighborhoodies.com #
i thought this was going to have something to do with the tv show: Osborne effect #
whoa, technology moving faster than i can keep up with: one-time-use digital camcorder from cvs #
news of the insane: Texas Instruments is replacing thousands of calculators issued to students in Virginia after a sixth-grader discovered that pressing a certain two keys converts decimals into fractions (which is cheating) #
i love and appreciate kristen’s blog name: In Transit/ion #
to read when i get home: turbulence by david sedaris #
strange california: rotten robbie (gas station) #
sonoma county also happens to be the center of the oilstop universe #
this is almost as fun as watching food mold over: An Inquiry into the Effects of Preservatives in McDonald’s Food #
first of all, it’s amazing that her domain name is bloggie, but secondly it’s amazing that some of her posts are in thai—too cool for school. #
my hair product, L’Oreal Studio Line Anti-Frizz Gel, seems as though it’s no longer being made, and i’m all out (if anyone finds a few remaining bottles in the drugstore, buy them for me, thx!) #
something i can relate to: Having life going on around him is something he describes as “the right kind of distraction”. #
this is a cool blog that needed to be done: Google Sightseeing #
i don’t get it, i want to see it: Me and You and Everyone We Know #
ouch: What do three average Americans carry when they are in a boat these days? Cell phones, digital cameras, etc. In the 1950s the total cost of this incident would have been a little time to let the clothing and wallet dry. On Friday the total cost of the electronic items destroyed was closer to $5000. #
been using Ta-da List for fun (i wish reordering the list could be done by drag and drop) #
this is what happens when people imitate the uncanny valley #
check it out on the right, i’m rocking the Recent Comments Plugin #
somafm loves to play elliott smith, so i wasn’t surprised to hear a song by a band called heatmiser that sounds just like elliott smith–except it turns out elliott smith was in heatmiser #
the EditPlus Wiki is back, finally (it had been a month long casualty of my moving across the country) #
ok, damn, would have liked to get the heads up on this: KRON 4 Welcomes Bay Area Bloggers #
finally got around to licensing the blog, went with attribution only because that seemed appropriate in the context of a blog (note: my photo gallery is still public domain) #
a java developer asks Rails vs. PHP: MVC or view-centric? #
ad in gmail i have no idea why:100% Pure Australian Emu Oil #
i upgraded to the latest wordpress last night (not the smoothest process) and i didn’t fully complete my comment tweaks–so if you’ve had problems posting a comment, try again. if you still have problems, please leave a comment here… thanks. #
i agree with myself: I would like a Firefox Extension that allows me to View Source in Tab #
quote of the day: Nearly a decade later…I don’t have to work a day job to support my IT habit. #
how cool: dad tours austin on a segway #
now it make sense: “like words through a stick of Blackpool rock” (America’s green goddess) #
great quote and another britishisms: Famously the downstairs restaurant once served for pudding a single peach on a plate. Not peeled. Not cut up. Just a peach. Chez Panisse was saying: this peach is so good nothing we could do would improve upon it. [emphasis added] #
*snort* I shit you not, I have to play Dodgedick with Japanese Jr. High kids on a weekly basis. #
oldie but goody: the kilty monroe #
picture of the day from kristen in bangkok: pepsi max, pepsi fire! #
quote of the day: Here they are in a little Tamagotchi torture system where I force them to talk as I listen in. #
somafm band name of the day: The Beatings #
this is SO cool: gallery of monowheels (and here’s a video of a diwheel in action) #
so weird, to read later: Civil War Era Grips Tintype Rebel #
i luv achewood: It’s alright. I know you’re from Circumstances. #
oh no! It was hard for me to believe that the “smooth package” market was big enough to warrant its own advertising, but Philips claims that “trimming pubic hair is thought to add an extra “optical inch” to your manhood.” #
for me alone time is from 8pm to midnight when the east coast has gone to bed #
collected photos from the ferguson-thomas wedding experience #
what a freaking awesome headline: Giant Balls of ‘Snot’ Explain Ocean Mystery #
quote of the century: Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life (the “your” is bush) #
didn’t feel my first earthquake #
free computer to computer calls: Skype (it’s a brave new world) #
it’s important to own your typos: gppgle.com (or this is what the world will look like when google buys apple) #
joel spolsky: No matter how good a recruiter you are…you can’t compensate for being the target of eight years of fear and loathing from the slashdot community, which very closely overlaps the people you’re trying to recruit (hear, hear!) #
i updated my pure google greasemonkey script after a minor google interface change #
judging this book by it’s cover…it will sell very very well #
new word: hypervisor, meaning “software which runs on a hardware machine and manages one or more operating systems” #
i swear! i don’t work for this right-wing nut job: O’Reilly Factor #
cute britishism on amazon.co.uk: Availability: usually dispatched within 24 hours. [emphasis added]
btw, other than on somafm, where i have heard about the go team before? tim? jackie? #
oh dear: I prefer my tops a little more cardigan and corduroy, if you know what I mean. #
Carl’s Jr. (aka hardees) is getting a lot of extra publicity for its commercials (and watch this when you’re done with the paris hilton ad) #
i love stuff like this, just incroyable: Pisa pushers #
cool! Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf somehow managed to convince city officials and local businesses to cover all commercial signs and other advertisements for a two-week period #
online commerce for hipsters: elsewheres: independent art and design #
smart car distributor Zap! is based in santa rosa, a few blocks from my apartment (i want one!) #
yeah, these are hot: CliC (NOT!)
i love how the amazon.com product images for clic goggles actually show images where the googles have been photoshopped on the models—i wonder if there’s some ethical rule against doing that?
ha, ethics in advertising, what was i thinking? #
i like the wallpaper-esque design of this site: Conspicuous Consumption #
neat art: Tim Biskup #
mark fletcher of bloglines says: stealth mode for a web start-up is the kiss of death…it should take no more than 3 months to go from conception to launch of a new web service #
fun and educational: Kitchen Myths (it’s the baking soda eats odors myth that i’m the most skeptical about…) #
I am SO there: Vote for Pedro: The Tour! #
important to know about earthquakes: liquefaction #
SO cool: The Edsac simulator is a faithful software evocation of the EDSAC computer as it existed in 1949-51 (i love the user interface) #
something to watch: microformats (structured xhtml) #
looking forward to these being hacked: jesus loves you sandals #
file this under “please don’t unplug me from the matrix!”: Dead online game resurrected by dumpster-diving its servers #
great interview: How did Mad Hot Ballroom survive the copyright cartel? (and see the documentary if you haven’t already) #
hehe: Sprawl-Mart #
it is a damn good cd: Radiohead’s album OK Computer has been named the best of the past 20 years by US music magazine Spin #
goofy: Camera fished from pond now takes surrealistic photos #
three questions i could answer in an interview (need to work on the third though) #
great thoughts from jon udell: Tacit knowledge and cortical algorithms #
snort! I was touched by His Noodly Appendages makes sense if you start here: open letter to the kansas school board #
love the post, love the quote: Or, perhaps, this is a good case study for governments on HOW NOT TO IMPLEMENT ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION laws. #
brilliant: If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman #
a music festival put on by pitchforkmedia: Intonation Music Festival #
to read later: Programming jobs losing luster in U.S. #
hell yeah! Real Americans don’t take away the freedoms of other Americans (this is also funny too!) #
haha, i love the CG model: Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie #
these are SO good: Quaker Chewy Cookies ‘n Cream Granola Bars #
oh snap! Perhaps Kennedy should have asked Rumsfeld if Cheney ought to resign. #
old poughkeepsie friend melissa mansfield getting married in august #
photo of the day: Drapes removed from Justice Department statue #
new word: pantograph #
hehe: talkin’ bout google… #
love me some iron and wine #
yey! funny blog shirts #
THIS IS SO FUNNY! VERY Ironic Trucker Hat #
two disappointing supreme court decisions today: High Court Sides With RIAA in File-Sharing Case #
to watch later: Rocketboom #
cool: Kite Aerial Photography on flickr #
looks like Mount St. Helena‘s going to have to wait for a weekend #
i just discovered my digital camera can take 42 minutes of video at the lowest resolution at 15fps–so i needs to build me one of these Video Camera Stabilizers #
wow, this is beautiful: elvis in post-its #
neat, a band called Bell X1 (the airplane my grandfather worked on) #
sweet design! Drawers in the stairs #
to read later: the story of Suck.com, the first great website #
fun with measurement: Country mile #
if this is true, this is fucking awesome! Group proposes to build hotel on Justice Souter’s house property (p.s. why did all the liberals on the court vote the way they did?) #
quote of the day: it just might be that the hallowed stone marker had been left to rest in peace for 40 years because until lately, there was no real reason to fear the tyranny of the Christian right majority #
dvd jon exposes google’s neutered video plugin #
don’t blame canada: Canada approves same-sex marriage #
w00t! sam ruby, you rock! I’m really tempted to have the FeedValidator return an “Undecipherable Specification Error” #
oh, my god: wickerpedia #
hehe, snarky review of wired’s nextfest: The rest of the employees were either burned alive or, more likely, were safe at their desks in Bangladesh. #
premonition of the day: I have a feeling the Y! vs. GOOG battles will rival east coast-west coast rap wars someday soon. #
giggle: This computer was added later for giggles, though sadly, no giggles were produced. #
only in wine country: i drove by New Vintage Church today #
you only get a hint from the architectural drawing how neat the Yulupa Cohousing structure looks up close (cohousing, hmm? learn something every day) #
works on my thinkpad, no batteries required (cause it’s USB), i just wish i had known about RocketFM before taking my trip across the country (thanks to derrick for lending it to me) #
hehe: the ipod flea (video) #
first time i’d heard about it: Julie & Julia (so much for buzz) #
