[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

Commissioners:

Over past 20+ years I have had the great fortune to make my living building both applications and the “plumbing” on the Internet and what has become the World Wide Web. I have seen first hand how innovation works in this industry. The disruption that takes the entire ( Read more... )

[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

[When I posted my glee at this announcement, a friend asked: “Could you explain what this means in English? How is it going to change what I can do on my Blackberry?”]
( long, rambling post )

[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

[I know it has been a long time since I’ve done one of these, but this one is directed mostly at my wonderful colleagues at Change.org. Others are more than ( Read more... )

That anyone is left reading this and happens to be in Pittsburgh:

I'll be in town 4/6-11.

Yes, a week before Carnival.
Yes, on purpose.
Yes, I'd love to see you.
No, I won't recognize you.

[Cross-posted from my
MovableType Blog]

[Note to LiveJournal readers: this post is a week or so old, but I think I’ve finally vanquished the cross-posting demons]

When MovableType 5 was announced, there was a bit of a brouhaha about its lack of PostgreSQL support. Though it was completely unclear from the language of the announcement, all that ( Read more... )

Let’s take a quick break from my self-absorbed rambling about my [REDACTED] to say: Please consider sending a donation to The Red Cross, or another disaster relief organization ( Read more... )

[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

A lot has happened in the last month

First off, it appears that this information has been unevenly communicated. For that, I apologize. But I hope you agree that I had a good excuse. (At least at first.)

I’m still midway through writing a very long-winded, exhastive account (with its ( Read more... )

[Cross-posted from our Wedding Blog]

I have a project I call “Clubcar.” It had its genesis in my frustration at the pathological inability of a group of coworkers to chose a lunch destination, coupled with our general dissatisfaction with the day-to-day functioning of most other automated decision systems.

It was also a ( Read more... )

[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

There are far too many words for me to write here, and I’ll never get it out if I try to capture them all. Keeping it short: The candle that burns at both ends burns twice as bright, but half as long. Horus succumbed to chronic renal failure today. Hoka Hey, little man.


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[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

Chiara and I are spending this weekend in Monterey / Carmel / Pacific Grove hammering out wedding details. To me this is poetic for on this day our relationship becomes “legal.”

18 years ago today, we had our first date. February 8, 1991 was the Snowball.

I don’t yet know if she ( Read more... )