Archive for August, 2008

Wikipedia

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

This xkcd comic says it all: http://xkcd.com/214/.
I originally went to Wikipedia to look up barrow, because I had read something about someone being buried in a barrow, and I thought, you know, it’s time to find out exactly what that is. I then found out what I was really looking for was tumulus, so I […]

Source Control and Private Branches

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Jeff Atwood wrote a blog entry today extolling the virtues of early and often checkins to source control. I agree with this, though I think there are a variety of ways to accomplish it.
Recently I have become fond of using a combination of Git and Perforce. The Perforce depot provides the centralized, managed source control […]

SmugMug Customer Service is Great

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

I haven’t actually had to use it yet, but the more I use customer service features of other web sites, the more I appreciate the promise and guarantee of “an e-mail response within an hour” from SmugMug.
How many times have you sent in feedback, or a request, or a complaint, to a web site, and […]

Laugh Tracks Suck

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Why do television producers feel the need to add a laugh track to some sitcoms these days?
Take the show Two and a Half Men for example. This show’s format seems to be nothing but one-liners separated by pauses for laughter from the laugh track. You know, you don’t have to try to make every single […]

KVM Switches

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Why do they have to suck? I have owned three different brands and four different styles of KVM switches in the past eight years or so, and all of them have had major shortcomings. The only reason I continue using them is that there is nothing better out there.
Why does it have to be this […]