Bonus Post: New Theme
I’ve installed a new theme (F2, the successor to the Fluid Blue theme that I’ve been using for a while now), and made a child theme from it so I could include my icon. Let me know if you see any problems with it.
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
“Darth, Interrupted: Does Vader have Borderline Personality Disorder?”
Well, something is definitely wrong with him, and I don’t think Palpatine is completely to blame for it. George Lucas might be though. š
“Iām Under Arrest for What? Fifty Bizarre U.S. Laws”
To go along with my last entry on weird laws, here are another fifty. Sometimes you have to wonder what universe lawmakers actually come from. Apparently many of these are misinterpretations at the very least, and probably deliberate, but they’re funny anyway. I love a bit from BB’s comments: “Michigan: a slice of the deep …
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“How to Start Using Procedure Checklists for Flawless Task Execution”
I stand behind this idea 100%. I’ve been using checklists for certain procedures (like software releases) for a number of years now, ever since I discovered that I was forgetting to do one or two things in each release. They were small things, but they made those releases look less professional. I just wish that …
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“Firefox tool erases Justin Bieber from Web”
Official censorship is bad, but people censoring what they’ll see on their own systems… I can live with that. I love the name too. š
“The Case for Keeping a Clunker”
It seems that I have a good excuse for keeping my ’96 Corolla on the road — I’m not being cheap, I’m being green! š
Speaking of dumb people…
…I’m sure by now you’ve heard about lawmaker Joe Barton’s oil-money-fueled apology to British Petroleum earlier this week. He was later forced by his own political party to retract it, but that hasn’t stopped incensed citizens from coming up with mocking sites like this one. This is definitely both amusing and appalling. I, for one, …
“Confident dumb people”
We all know them, and politics in the last decade has had some notable representatives of the species. Now you can start to understand why they’re so confident. It’s not just dumb people. Most beginning programmers, for instance, are incredibly confident after only a few months of learning (and yes, I was one of them …
Saving the Perfect Keyboard
I spent more than a decade trying different keyboards, looking for one that was just right. I had a picture of it in my mind: it had quiet, short-travel keys, like the keyboards on a laptop. It didn’t have an attached numeric keypad — between a right-handed mouse and a numeric keypad, a standard keyboard …
“Brain Management”
It seems that my frequent bouts of programming may have something to do with my lack of desire to socialize most of the time. From The Dilbert Blog: […] During one period of my life I wrote a number of computer programs that involved intense manipulation of objects in my mind, for hours each day. …