Monthly Archives: February 2008

fuck you, austin sarner

Matt Ball has posted a siz­able write-up which neatly sums up the ris­ing tide of back­lash against the so-called "Deli­cious Gen­er­a­tion" of soft­ware devel­op­ers cur­rently bilk­ing milk­ing aban­don­ing their installed base every 6-to-8 months. I had been work­ing on some­thing sim­i­lar, though admit­tedly much, much less details when this dropped. My inter­est in this was strictly

you will move!

For about ten min­utes, there was a post here describ­ing the pend­ing move to Media Tem­ple from my VPS account with Tek­Tonic… Until I found that I’d be pay­ing an addi­tional $20/month for their ser­vices on top of the $20/month hosting costs.

Class Warfare

I no longer define my class stand­ing in terms of the money I've made or the things I own. It's not even some­thing as pedes­trian as the neigh­bor­hood I live in or the car I drive. I now define it in terms of how much time I have to spend in laundromats.