I’ve always been rather sensitive to spelling and grammar. Maybe a little too sensitive. Little errors in written English drive me nuts. I’ve finally found a place for other people who, like me, shudder at misplaced punctuation, “creative” spelling, abused homonyms, and atrocious grammar: Wordsplosion! “Showcasing the best of the worst of the wide world …
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Stack Overflow, the programmer Q&A site that Joel Spolsky (of Joel on Software) and Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror) have been putting together, finally opened its public beta doors yesterday. I’d been following its development closely through their podcast, and when I came up with an obscure programming problem this morning, I decided to try …
Bruce Schneier recently pointed out an analysis that proves what I’ve suspected for several years now: the country really overreacted to the 9/11 attack.
A little while back, I ran across a rant about multithreaded programming on The Register (NSFW due to strong language), which starts out with this paragraph: I don’t know about you, but every time I have to program with threads and shared resources, I want to remove my face incrementally with a salad fork. Locks, …
(This is a follow-up to last year’s post on the cat-crap problem. As I said then, if you’re bored or offended by talk of the removal of feline waste products, don’t read this entry any further.) Our third Littersweep Ultra died a few months ago, worn out the same way as our first one. I’m …
I was reading a LifeHacker post on How to (Not) Get Banned from Commenting this morning, when I ran across this section: Do you ban readers who criticize your posts? Nope. We thrive on constructive criticism. We’re always listening to what you have to say and trying to improve. If you do think something we …
One of the (few) spam messages that survived to show up in my junk folder today: Subject: Hilarious! Could it be true? See inside. Jessica Simpson Breathes Air READ FULL STORY Um… unless Jessica Simpson is a fish, a methane-breathing alien, or dead, why would that pique my interest? Isn’t that rather like exclaiming “Amazing, …
Everybody and his brother has been nattering on about the newest contender in the Internet browser market, Google Chrome, over the last couple days. ZDNet seems to have wrapped up a lot of the best arguments in two articles: Five reasons Chrome will take over the world, and Five reasons why Chrome will crash and …
It’s a day late and a dollar short, but nobody’s perfect. 🙂 GoddessJ and I both hope that you had a good one.
LifeHacker.com ran a poll of their readers last week to determine what their “must-have” Firefox extensions are. Surprise, surprise — AdBlock was at the top of the list. LifeHacker is an ad-supported site, so the title for the post reporting the results is no shock. (I don’t see any need to block ads, myself — …