Cleaning up a bit more from the party and I’m finding little Channel 9 people all over the house in strange places. It’s funny, and a little scary. Michael Eakes has some pictures of the fellows when they were still orderly.
Category Archives: Personal
Yearly Tasks
As the year draws to a close, and it has been a wonderful year, I find myself drawn to a few tasks that always seem to catch me around this time:
- Updating copyright years on sites that don’t use the PHP trick.
- Archiving old mail and logs to local server.
- Checking none of the low-traffic stuff broke without me noticing.
- Backing up.
- Cleaning out old/dead accounts, consolidating where possible.
- Putting everything remotely versionable into Subversion (new for me this year).
- Writing notes to old friends.
- Organizing music.
- Making lists (much like this one).
What catches up with you at the end of the year?
Post-Party Cleanup
Thanks to everyone who came out. The dinner was excellent and the after-party was packed. Judging from the number of cups and such I think about 40-50 people came out, but I really don’t have any idea. Much to my surprise, pictures are already online! You can browse Nicole’s afterparty and geekdinner tags, Jasmeet’s geek dinner tag, and Jonas’ photos. Some other people (Om and Russell) were taking photos but I don’t know where they went. There might be something to this Flickr thing. Scoble looks like he had a good time here.
Geek Dinner Afterparty
After every good party, there’s an afterparty, and Robert’s geek dinner Thursday night is no different. When it turned out the venue was just a stone’s throw from my place in SF it just made sense to allow the festivities to continue after the restaurant kicks us out. So after the dinner we’ll walk down to my place (about two blocks) where the fun can continue with food, refreshments, and of course wifi. Everyone is invited, as long as you’re XFN Friendly. (Though I’m willing to make an exception for Marc.) If you haven’t already let me know you’re coming via email or IM please leave a comment so I can stock up accordingly. 🙂
Mark Marries
Mark Ghosh (of WLTC fame) is marrying the love of his life. Congrats!
Address Change
Those of you who I had given my address to as “333” please change that to “355.” Sorry for the confusion! I just got a heap of Christmas cards today that had gone to the wrong address.
Jonas’ 2005 Predictions
Check out Jonas’ predictions for 2005 and his hilarious follow-up. Thanks to Jonas for reminding me it’s just 15 days until my birthday.
Javascript Markdown
A Javascript implementation of Markdown, useful for live previews. It doesn’t do all of Markdown, but that’s okay because a lot of it isn’t needed/used anyway. Might be useful to define a “Markdown-lite” subset of the syntax to target for. It would also be great for there to be two-way tools for going to and from HTML.
Domain Captcha
When renewing a domain at GoDaddy I just had to fill out a captcha to complete the transaction.
Photo Matt in Snow
So apparently the first year I’m not home for the holidays Houston decides to have a white Christmas, snowing in places that have only seen snow maybe once before in my lifetime. As an early present, however, my friend Jess sent me this awesome picture. Update: One from Sarah too! (And another)
GPL 3.0
The GPL is getting a facelift, sounds neat.
On Livejournal
Apparently I’m available on LiveJournal now. Update: I didn’t do this, so I don’t know exactly how it’s done. I believe it’s just polling my RSS feed and making that a LJ “friend”. I wonder who set it up?
Grass Picture
By popular demand, the grass picture is now available full-size. I’m curious, what are your favorite pictures? Maybe I could put together a wallpaper pack or something.
Newest Addiction
My newest addiction is chocolate covered cashews. YUM!
Torvalds Interview
Upgrade MT
The new version of Movable Type addresses the issue that was supposedly causing incredibly high loads and causing hosts to disable MT. Congrats to the team for addressing this so quickly.
Fixing Search Engines
Joeseph Scott says Fixing Search Engines Won’t Stop Comment Spam.
Leaving AIM On
I accidentally left AIM on my laptop at the office this weekend and I didn’t get a chance to come up here to turn it off. Now there are 33 open message windows from people who IMed me, probably all thinking I ignored them. One interesting note, when this many windows are blinking XP has a noticable delay between them, it’s almost like running lights.