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A couple of months ago, we started work on a major rewrite of one of our core sites. What started as a small and specialized e-commerce service a few years ago has grown mightily over those same years. The architecture, however, has hit a limit - especially when compared to the large push for what we want to do (and can do) next. The current site works great and handles its load and duties very well....

Last night I floated like a ghost past the strip club, under the freeway, over the railroad tracks, past the big electric sign and refrigeration companies and worn out corners until I got to the super-center. I needed milk, inner tubes for my bike, and dog treats. Of course, my cart started filling up with much more than just that. And in the middle of my 11pm shopping excursion I stumbled across...

I’m still offline at my new home. Curiously, this hasn’t been a huge deal for me, so far. I’m getting home so late (relatively), and then still have to walk the dog (if she stayed home that day), feed her, feed myself, etc. Other factors have been eating up bits of my evenings as well: cleaning out the old place (finally done as of yesterday), getting some finishing-touch little furnishings (one at...

"But I don't have $100 and I can't come by with a truck for two weeks..." No piano for you! Life sucks; get a helmet....

I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is. - David Byrne as Narrator, True Stories (19...

This is an AppleScript I cobbled together real quick to post to this weblog quickly from QuickSilver, using MarsEdit to handle the posting. I don’t claim to have any real in-depth knowledge of AppleScript, and I doubt this will win any “prettiest” or “best” code awards. I just thought it might be helpful to others. using terms from application "Quicksilver" on process text ThisClipping...

This is a test, of sorts, to see how easy it is to write an applescript to send a post to GriddleNoise via MarsEdit.It's an attempt to see how easy it might be to do some tumblelog style posts using QuickSilver as the entry p...

I moved into my new apartment a week ago. Except for one glaring problem, it’s really quite nice. The one glaring problem is huge: no internet, yet. I’ve been a happy user of cable based internet for most of the past six or seven years, from Fredericksburg to Salt Lake. I haven’t even had a phone line since moving back to SLC. I’ve been happy enough with cable internet, having had very few problems...

A few months ago I bit the bullet and purchased Tinderbox, an interesting outlining/mapping/linking application for Mac OS. I primarily purchased it to use Ryan Holcomb’s template for a Tinderbox based system for the Getting Things Done workflow, but I also dreamt of using it for more. I haven’t used Tinderbox much in the past couple of months. Kinkless GTD 0.83 came out along with the OmniOutliner...

As I’m getting ready to move to a new loft that will give me a nicer, more dedicated working space, I’ve found myself doing a lot more painting. I was working on large canvas in front of this stack of metal cube-ish storage things. As I was taking some pictures of the work in progress, I realized I needed to get a shot of what sits up top. Here, in bite sizes, are a lot of representative elements...

I’ve never been a fan of IDE’s. I grew up on Commodore 64 BASIC – always on, just start typing in code and it works. I used IDE’s a little bit way back in my high school computer science day, but I remember it as little more than an editor / compiler combination (Lightspeed Pascal on Mac System 6). After that, I did very little programming for a few years except for casual purposes until I started...