- Framed: A Mystery in Six Parts - this is excellent investigative work by the LA Times and one heck of a story! Straight out of a Lifetime original movie or something...

- When tech firms judge on skills alone, women land more job interviews - blind auditions are a great idea. The fact that that changed the number of women selected for an ( Read more... )

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We had a baby! Check Facebook for details and pictures.

(from this point on the links are non-baby related)

- How Uber’s Failure in Japan Can Help Startups Everywhere - interesting look at the cultural differences in Japan that sunk Uber there.

- A Cheaper Airbag, and Takata’s Road to a Deadly Crisis - sigh. Also, sounds like there may have ( Read more... )

We've done a lot of these lately, because it's going to be much harder once we have a kid :-) But here are my ratings for the ones we've done, in descending order:

Austin Maze RoomsThe room we did was set in the '70s, and the "apartment" was decorated realistically and authentically. The Maze Room claims to specialize in "gadgets", and after ( Read more... )

• This is (to put it mildly) a weird election. Even Texas has had a few close polls. There's a lot of uncertainty this year, so you're more likely to be living in a closeish state this year than in other years.
• It's your civic duty. Seriously, I don't want to get all emotional here, but democracy doesn't work if people don't vote. (not that our ( Read more... )

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- So I guess we have to talk about this Clinton Foundation stuff. The best two articles I've seen about this are Vox's The AP’s big exposé on Hillary meeting with Clinton Foundation donors is a mess and how media approaches the Clinton Foundation story through a politics lens. This is the kind of "scandal" that was extremely common under Bill ( Read more... )

After revamping gregstoll.com to support SSL, I spent some time looking at all of my projects and making sure that they still worked with SSL. Turns out most of them didn't! (although the fixes were generally pretty quick)

That led me to revisit the Clue Solver, which seemed to have partially broken since I wrote it almost 10(!) years ago, ( Read more... )

- We Need to Literally Declare War on Climate Change - interesting idea. In the US I fear we don't have the political will to do this.

- How Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Differ on Taxes - Hillary wants to raise taxes for people making more than $1 million, and Trump wants to dramatically lower them. What a surprise!

- This Is Why There Are ( Read more... )

Since I have a few projects that require passwords (most notably LJBackup), I've wanted to set up HTTPS on my website. I had done this with my own self-signed certificate a while back, which works but gives you a pretty scary-looking warning in various browsers. I've blocked out the memory of what I had to do to get this to work, but it was very ( Read more... )