September 2007
“Eternal September (also September that never ended, perpetual September, or...”
– Eternal September - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hit & Run > I Love the Smell of Hunny in the... →
Apocalypse Pooh - An early, primitive, and brilliant video mash-up. Back in the day, people had to work to make these things. (Total coincidence that the day after I post this, Hit & Run links back to this prior post of theirs. - ToK(oT))
August 2007
“My solutions log have the form of Q&A. But instead of questions it has...”
– Tools of The Effective Developer: Personal Logs (I use Google Notebook to do something similar to this, though not as diligently as I should. - ToK(oT))
“See You Next Wednesday is a fictional film that is the trademark of film...”
– See You Next Wednesday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Open Letter to NBC re: Leaving Apple’s iTunes... →
Jeremy Horowitz:Hi, NBC. It’s me, Jeremy. You probably don’t know me, but I’m one of your customers. That’s right, “customers.” Two years ago, that word wouldn’t have made any sense to either of us. The idea of paying money for your TV shows was next to ridiculous to me back then. Even today, I think it’s on the fine edge of foolish, and all it would take is one really dumb move by your company...
Redmond Mag: Microsoft's iPhone?
Mary Jo Foley:When I say “popular,” I’m not expecting any queues winding around the block at Best Buy or Circuit City, which will be carrying the first Home Server models. I’m not anticipating TV and radio feeding frenzies. And I’m not predicting we’ll see an onslaught of rave reviews-all of which preceded the launch of the Apple iPhone in late June. ...
Using Feedburner Now
If anyone’s actually subscribed to my feed (and wants to help me track stats), please point your reader at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ToKoT. Thanks.
Inventoids →
Steve invents things while travelling to work on the train. He sketches them in his moleskine notebooks. Instead of actually making them (and becoming a billionaire overnight) he posts them here for the good of mankind.
“Fesgen said she would hear: “Well, I don’t want to be chased, but he won’t stop...”
– Elementary School Bans Tag (Another step toward raising a generation with no social immune system whatsoever. What’s wrong with simply not running if tagged? - ToK(oT))
“In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase...”
– Eggcorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tumblr - Check New Followers – Userscripts.org →
Greasemonkey script to let you know when you gain or lose followers. Lets you know with a little popup, then opens new followers in their own tabs. To disable the new tabs behavior, edit the script and set OPEN_IN_TAB to false. (from brasil)
“Eek! The Cat is an American animated series, created by Savage Steve Holland and...”
– Eek! The Cat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The biggest winner in the smells-that-make-men-horny contest was pumpkin pie.”
– The Dilbert Blog: Aroused by Pie
Dr. Grammar - Frequently Asked Questions →
A or An? According to The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style, “The indefinite article a is used before words beginning with a consonant sound, including /y/ and /w/ sounds. The other form, an, is used before words beginning with a vowel sound. Hence, a European country, a Ouija board, a uniform, an FBI agent, an MBA degree, an SEC filing. So unless...
Etiquette Survey For The Tumblrati
On occasion, a tumble I follow will reblog a post that I, in turn, would like to reblog. Like many tumblrs, I’ll typically credit both the tumble I follow and the origin blog on my reblog. This seems like the right thing to do, since it will expose any followers to both where something originated and how I found it. What about when the chain of reblogs gets longer? How far down the...
“The network allows an FBI agent in New York, for example, to remotely set up a...”
– Inside DCSNet, the FBI’s Nationwide Eavesdropping Network (via Schneier on Security)
“Possible remedy for failing American schools. Soaring imagination at the thought...”
– The “Verbs Bad” Manifesto (via Psychic Plague Panacea)
“I’m no anthropologist, but I always thought the palm-up gesture came from...”
– Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Brother, Can You Spare a Banana?
“After a few minutes I realized he hasn’t just stopped wearing shoes while...”
– Unclutterer: Shoes are clutter
“What I had discovered, in essence, was a mechanical virus. It infects Mac...”
– alwaysBETA » The Tale of the Mechanical Virus (via del.icio.us/43folders)
“Bacn: E-mail that isn’t spam but isn’t what you really want or need,...”
– Away With Words: Word of the Week: Bacn
“Compensation: Commensurate with experience.” This is recruit-speak for “we think...”
– How to Change the World: How to Not Hire Someone Via Craigslist
I put a Dashboard/blockquote disclaimer on a post, and an hour later cameron.io points out that it’s been fixed. Clearly my will shapes the universe. Muchos gracias, Marco y David. (small bug report: strikethrough isn’t rendering in Dashboard)
Searching your t'log: it sucks
aatw responds to Bill Israel:Bill Israel: Does this happen to you? Do you ever need to find an old post only to end up clicking the “Previous Entries” link until you find it? Yes. And it pisses me off. Well, it’s happened to me a lot, and needless to say, it was less than efficient. You think?! ;) Until post titles are changed to allow better indexing, a hack that’s a...
“You know what we need? Someone to take the blame; someone to pay the price. A...”
– The38thSignal: Scapegoats take the blame
WatchWhat if everybody saw you like your dog does (via my sis)
Crediting other Tumblr users: what do you think?
AATW posts: Most of the people who follow AATW do so via the Tumblr Dashboard. I know this for a fact thanks to Feedburner’s site & RSS stats. So, I’m wondering if it’s really worth the effort to credit other Tumblr users in the actual post body, since Tumblr does so already. I really want to know what you other tumblelog philosophists think (I’m thinking of you,...
Looks like I can take “get published in SysAdmin” off my goals list, and not because I did.
