Archive for the ‘minipost’ Category

“After the jump”

Do blog authors realize how stupid “after the jump” looks when people view the article in full? I must frequently view entire posts, because I don’t remember the last time I saw the phrase where it was followed by a “read more” link.
I hope the phrase dies a choking death.

Marijuana

Congressman Barney Frank introduces legislation to remove federal penalties on personal marijuana use. Sweet. I’ve emailed my representative (Congressman Jim McDermott), and you should email yours. Unless you’re for federal penalties, of course.

The Consumerist

The comments people post on The Consumerist articles are among the most blame-the-customer-first I’ve ever seen. Is it unfair to judge a blog based on the comments? Perhaps, but it’s hard for me not to when the pro-corporate theme is so overwhelming.

grepbait

Text you place in code that you know you’ll search for later. One common example is “XXX“. If I have to write a quick-n-dirty hack to get around a problem, I’ll usually put an XXX comment near it. When I’m done writing the code, I’ll recursively grep for XXX to see if there’s anything I [...]

Houseless

The dpk-owning-a-house experiment has come to an end. Bought in a seller’s market, and sold in a buyer’s market, and I still came out ahead. Plus, I left the house in better shape than it was when I bought it. Everybody wins! Especially the excise tax board, sheesh.

CNN = Fox News?

You’ve probably already seen this on digg. CNN is officially no better than Fox News.
I know CNN is part of the evil “mainstream media,” but still, I expected better than this. I don’t think I could bring myself to go to cnn.com any more. I certainly won’t watch it on TV (not that I did [...]

A no-brainer

From the Seattle Times, a brief about Costco’s solar power:
The panels cost about $745,000 per store, and Costco typically doesn’t make that money back for three to five years.
If you own your building and you can get a return on capital improvement like this, how could you not do it? Go team.

Official “Most Pointless Error Message Ever” Nominee

tar: namedb/master/domain.com.DB: time stamp 2008-01-31 18:22:02 is 0.000371905 s in the future
It’s GNU-tastic!