Very concerned that the pancreii at tonight’s potluck may be outmatched by this batch of brownies.
RT @hotdogsladies: Dismissing the iPad for not running Flash is like hating a salad fork for not playing 8-tracks.
Looking at my boy makes me so happy my heart hurts.
RT @davidcairns: Man, I can’t even *find* the button to mark an email as “important”, how is my project manager able to do it to every s …
RT @armchair: New site launch: http://citizenarchitectfilm.com/
RT @KentBeck: unit tests and source control are muck boots for the programmer’s mind—you just don’t have to worry where you walk
RT @rands: Middle names exist so kids have a clear indication when they are in big trouble.
Having my first fatherly experience of just barely getting the boy through a nasty stomach bug before succumbing to it myself. Joy.
Remember kids, # snarkycomment is ok though unprofessional, <!— snarky comment —> and // snarkycomment are just not good ideas.
Fraser SpiersThe tech industry will be in paroxysms of future shock for some time to come. Many will cling to their January-26th notions of what it takes to get “real work” done; cling to the idea that the computer-based part of it is the “real work”.
It’s not. The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS.
The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table’s order, designing the house and organising the party.
Automated test suites really show their value late at night when I’m fuzzily mucking about in the model layer plumbing.
Any nice object shipping 60 days from yesterday will ship *remarkably* close to my birthday. Hnmp.
Have officially given up on sorting apps in Springboard, now just hitting “Reset locations” periodically and using Spotlight.