Me and Bobby Tables
Brad Williams and I have shared a few Bobby Tables jokes while working on the manuscript for Professional WordPress. SQL injection attacks are nasty, somewhat common, and often require a complete rebuilding of your site to purge and move on. If you’re wondering why the snowman looks a little bare, without pictures, sidebars, or other [...]
Unboxing Cory Doctorow’s “With A Little Help”
I have just experienced the anticipation, excitement and fascination equivalence of a few Christmas mornings, a major birthday, and discovering the VIctoria’s Secret catalog, all rolled into one. If you’ve never believed “book lingerie” could be used in a sentence, read on about my experience unboxing a hand-bound, hand-finished copy of Cory Doctorow’s With A [...]
xkcd and Home Run Hitters
I adore Randall Munroe’s xkcd comic, mostly for the math jokes. I define “geek” as someone who uses epsilon in a sentence, so anything that references irrational number or NP-completeness is good for several laughs. And here I thought I was the only one who made Erdos number jokes. Unfortunately, Erdos number theorists would dispute [...]
Deconstructing My Cell Phone
I suffer from information sprawl in a bad way. Partly this is due to loving paper notes, partly due to the proliferation of devices in tow, partly due to just not having the incentive to consolidate and clean up. My address book is a virtual data center in miniature: a little bit of everything, on [...]
The 2007 List
Presenting the fourth installment in a continuing series dating back to 2004: the 2007 list. Best Parenting Moment: Son Benjamin’s Bar Mitzvah, celebrated with lots of friends and family. He made us cry, he made his hockey coaches cry (something I hadn’t seen before) and he played a mean guitar solo with the band. Best [...]