August 2008
15 posts
“John Kerry descended like he stole the friggin’ bike from the GOP.”
– Jonathan Vaughters in My Un-Conventional Ride (via)
“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them...”
– Andy Warhol (via affremblequotes)
Where is Bob? Tales of an absentee manager →
No doubt you know this already, but in case you don’t, this is the ongoing story of the Small IT Group at the Big Private University and their, well, lack of management.
It’s well-written and very funny so far.
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I can’t stop playing Lovely Allen over and...
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Reblogging improvements →
Tumblr now allows you to reblog any post as Text, Link, or Quote. I’m happy about that and had hoped improvements in that area might be coming. I still wonder why there are any reblog restrictions at all.
Why not allow reblogging of any type of post as any other type? Maybe it doesn’t seem to make sense to reblog a Photo as a Chat, but who knows? You can’t predict how...
What Was Putin Thinking? →
Writes a Harper’s reader:
Where on earth did Putin get the idea that he could just
manufacture a non-existent crisis, invade a sovereign nation
and overthrow its government just because he personally detests
that nation’s leader?
Oh. Never mind.
“Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.”
– Jean-Louis Gassée, by way of lkm
Poor man's Quicksilver →
Squee! Danny O’Brien is my hero.
Since the Great PowerBook Disaster of 2007, I’ve been
casting about for a way to approximate Quicksilver’s
combined application launching/window switching in Linux. About 3
seconds after I discovered Quicksilver, having one key
combination to always focus an application (whether it had been
previously started or not) became so ingrained in my...
Urban legend: don't end sentence with preposition →
What began as a guideline to promote clarity in certain contexts
was misconstrued as a blanket rule which has engendered an
onslaught of awkward sentences, contorted to avoid breaking the
“rule”.
The Stumblng Tumblr, who provided the linkage, enjoyed the
post primarily for it’s first two comments, which are funny
enough to offset a lot of the previously mentioned...