Don't you hate when you suddenly get a very specific kind of deja vu - like you had a dream about the very thing you're doing? I know I do. Especially when it's something as mundane as making an omelette.

Damn good omelette though.

I think it's really asinine for webmasters to force users to download a new web browser before they deign to let them view their crappy blog. Maybe I'm just one of those touchy-feely web designers who thinks that websites should be universally accessible, deprecate nicely, and shouldn't push agendas for a browser that has only 10% market share. ( Read more... )

I was doing some thinking about technology, and how it has a habit of saturating its limits until high-tech becomes low-tech (thanks a lot, Moore's Law). For example, in a couple years we're going to be using HD-DVD or Blu-Ray (whichever wins) and musing about how positively atrocious DVDs were at holding all our high def content. But until HD ( Read more... )

Things I love about Ubuntu (and Linux in general ( Read more... )

Some study someone did somewhere showed that most web users only really visit about 6 sites regularly. I scoffed at first - "Only SIX? That's like paying for 20,000,000,000 channels and only watching CSPAN!"

Then I started to reflect about my own "daily round" surfing habits. Digg. Fazed. MySpace. Google Homepage. Bash. LJSeven years online, ( Read more... )

You can never, really, truly, escape or change your past.

WTFTAYLORHICKS. WTF.

Don't get me wrong, I was actually rather surprised that he rose up through the ranks, and REALLY surprised when it took him until the last few weeks to decide that he actually had a decent singing voice. But still. McPhee was so talented, and so awesome, and so gorgeous and I can totally see her kicking ass out there in the ( Read more... )

Very random, very weird, very nostalgic mood. Suddenly had the urge to go through my old E-mail accounts, sifting through messages sent over 4 years ago. People I once enjoyed, yet completely forgot I knew - many of them probably still added to this journal - and friendships long since dissolved. I have pangs for the E-mails and logs I knew were ( Read more... )

You know what really pisses me off? What grinds my gears, so to speak? People who drive around town with those stupid tiny American flags in little tiny flag holsters glued to either side of their car (usually a gas-guzzling SUV). It's pretty apparent that you're not escorting the President, due to the lack of other flag-toting douchebags lined ( Read more... )

In a few short hours, portions of one of the busiest streets in Los Angeles will be shut down as a teeming throng chokes its way down Wilshire, picking up supporters in a march from City Hall to the LaBrea Tarpits to MacArthur Park, the focal point for what might be one of the largest rallies in recent memory (and only the second of the day). 24- ( Read more... )