A Year’s Worth of Girl Trouble

20 years ago

The web statistics suggest that I'm getting a crop of new readers, partially because of the Love/Hate T-shirt entry, partially…

Meanwhile, in the Blog I Get Paid to Write…

20 years ago

Over at Tucows Farm, an entry about being both a developer and a marketer, with a link to a particularly…

"Bender" and Al Gore Promote "An Inconvenient Truth"

20 years ago

Click the image to see the video. Here's a strange collaboration: "Bender" from Futurama and Al Gore in cartoon form…

A Sense of Scale

20 years ago

My best math teachers and professors used to encourage the class to get a better feel for numbers by playing…

RailsConf 2006: A Bag of Squishy Cows is a Bag of Trouble

20 years ago

Pictured below is the inside of my knapsack as it appeared in the late morning on Thursday, June 22nd. The…

RailsConf 2006: Nathaniel Talbott: “Homesteading: A Thriver’s Guide”

20 years ago

(This article also appears in Tucows Farm.) "Paul Graham might have be the first speaker at this conference to quote…

RailsConf 2006: Paul Graham: "The Power of the Marginal"

20 years ago

(This article also appears on Tucows Farm.) "Well, well, well..." said Paul Graham at the start of his keynote to…

RailsConf 2006: Back, and Macs

20 years ago

(This article also appears on Tucows Farm.) I'm back from Chicago, where I attended the first international Ruby on Rails…

Hello from RailsConf!

20 years ago

Actually, I've been in Chicago since late Thursday afternoon and RailsConf since Friday, but the internet connection's been rather spotty,…

Starbucks, Sustainability and Livability

20 years ago

I'm going to be talking about Starbucks, gentrification and related issues for the next little while, and I'm even going…