Category Archives: worky


yowza

May 21, 2008 – 9:25 pm

So, yes, some of you (Jamila) are hearing this a second time, but it needs to be said.
A young programmer was fired today. I know from personal experience that he didn’t work very hard and was really lazy. The company got him super cheap with the assumption that he would be willing to learn, but [...]

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Argh

May 16, 2008 – 9:08 am

Imagine this, if you will.
Imagine working on a site where every page is crammed with SEO text. The title of every page on the site, instead of being descriptive, says things like “Cheap Web Hosting, Best Web Host, Dedicated Server”. These are not my ideas, but I am forced to live with them.
Further imagine that [...]

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jQuery and Tablesorter in Action

April 29, 2008 – 7:46 pm

I finally had time to get around to fixing the little problems I was having with the dev version of our Dedicated Servers page. The functionality was fine; it just looked really dumb for a second or two as the javascript loaded.
Click here to see it in action.
As can be expected, I ran into some [...]

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done!

April 25, 2008 – 12:41 pm

The new home page is up. There weren’t really any issues with it except that the banner rotation function I wrote was taking longer to download than I expected. I fixed it, though.
Last night I downloaded and installed Kubuntu 8.04. I hated it so I took it back off. Then I installed Fedora and it [...]

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Captain Insano

April 21, 2008 – 10:07 pm

Sunday, Cliff and I went to Ernie’s for brunch. We were having our typical pseudo-philosophical conversation, which is why I love Cliff.
As we were checking out, Cliff was talking about how he believed most people were inherently too weak-minded to control themselves (and thus people want control subconsciously). I asked him if he’d read Leviathan since [...]

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State of the Work, Vol. 1

April 10, 2008 – 8:45 pm

Today we had a brainstorming meeting with the marketing execs about where we’re going to go in the next few months. It was just me, my 3 designer colleagues, and…them. What’s kind of amazing/intriguing is that this is something I sort of initated a few weeks ago when I mentioned off-hand that our website looks like [...]

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