At the Titans of Small Town show last weekend, I was chatting with some of the people there and someone (I've forgotten your name - sorry!) asked me about newspapers and comics and I had a revelation I'd never had before, which is as follows:

The death of newspapers is going to be great for comics, you guys!And here's how I defend that ( Read more... )

An Ode To Coalesce

Coalesce
I must confess
You're my favourite database function

Coalesce
With such finesse
You return the first non-null value in the argument list

Coalesce
You do impress
With the lovely name you've chosen

Coalesce
When I assess
All the other database functions you're always among my favourites

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A few days ago I am ALMOST CERTAIN I read an article about ratings for websites, and the proper way to calculate your top lists with them: "highest rated items", things like that. They're tricky, because when you show something like "Top 10 things", these lists tend to be static. That's why most websites have an "in the past 7 days" rider, the ( Read more... )

Dudes I feel kinda odd about my last post! I meant it as a "Hey, here's the article I was writing about!" but I think it came across as "Hey, here's that dude from before! I MUST END HIM ( Read more... )

Hey the article I recently discussed / BRUTALLY BODYSLAMMED is up online now! People were asking about it, so you can read it here:

To NFB or Not to NFB!

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The past little while I've been playing with a game called Façade. It's free, and I recommend it! It came out years ago though so this may be OLD NEWS to you.


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Without any context, this page is very confusing and surreal! List of hundreds in Sweden.

I especially enjoy "Kinda hundred", which lead me to this page via a link as follows: "'Kinda' may refer to: Kinda Hundred, a hundred in Sweden".

Sweden I admire your strange and unusual ways