Category Archives: opinion and libel

Software Regret

Alex Payne of Twit­ter (the social net­work every­one but me uses) has posted a well struc­tured list of soft­ware he's paid for but no longer users. I am in a sim­i­lar boat thanks to sites like Mac­Zot, where I have licenses for shit I will never, ever use again or for appli­ca­tions whose func­tion­al­ity was replaced by some­thing bet­ter later on.

A word about ska bands

In the last month I've been to two ska-punk shows with all-or-almost-all-cracker ska bands open­ing up, and one thing is abun­dantly clear to me: There is a rea­son peo­ple say that white folks have no soul. I've real­ized that gen­er­ally these cracker bands play ska too fast, too clean, and too mechan­i­cally. They're almost always lack­ing any sort

Yule time soundtrack

My favorite thing about Christ­mas is that it's per­fectly (un)acceptable to crank The Van­dals record "Oi to The World" all day at work. When you want to mix it up a lit­tle, the No Doubt cover of "Oi to The World" will also suf­fice for a quick interlude.

Sad Cog

This makes me extra sad in light of the fact that Ozh just tore this down as "Do Not Want" in his his­tory of the Word­Press admin inter­face. I didn't mind that admin­is­tra­tion design at all, find­ing it much more usable than the one that existed before it. I'm told that nowa­days that means I have

Ghost writing

I sort of wind up han­dling goof-ball tech­ni­cal issues for Jon at Adam Riff™. We butt heads a lot but he means well, in this really warped West Coast way. Jon is on vaca­tion this week, and he "cre­atively mas­saged" some of a con­ver­sa­tion we once had regard­ing his trip and how to obtain wire­less access while away.

Word of the day: Opinionation

Opin­ion­a­tion n. opin·ion·at·ion A coun­try of peo­ple, all absoloutely pos­i­tive that they're pos­i­tive that they're always right, so you must obvi­ously be both wrong, and an idiot. Exam­ple: The gen­tle­man in fatigues who was at the counter spent all after­noon pon­tif­i­cat­ing upon the nature of mod­ern civ­i­liza­tions depen­dency on oil. At the end of his bully-pulpit

Web hosting 101, or how to lose my business in five words

Behold, a star­tling tale of awful tech sup­port staff, too lit­tle too late man­age­ment strate­gies, and ver­bose tirades of dar­ing do that was sup­pos­edly done did! Since Jan­u­ary, my vir­tual pri­vate server account with Tek­tonic has gone down more than a fresh­man soror­ity pledge. Every time, I have had to play this two-step swing­ing game with them to