May 2009
April 2009
"Popular Stuff" is not "Favrd for Tumblr"
It’s just Radar (which you’ll notice is no longer on the Explore menu) in Dashboard format.
I’m sure items still go through the automatic queue plus moderation process to get there.
Damned Effective Marketing
I’m not sure I even noticed how many times it was repeated in the commercials at first. I know I didn’t think of it as a tag line. Yet now I find that it’s the precise phrase I not only say to others, but think to myself.
There’s an app for that.
Another Tumblr Wish
Please add ‘add to queue’ and ‘save as draft’ capability to the bookmarklet form at http://www.tumblr.com/share.
Thanks.
Deadly Embrace →
A specific type of deadlock, I think deadly embrace is my favorite name for a system pathology.
I was just forced to listen politely while someone misexplained it on a call, so I’m posting this link in hopes that I might spare someone else the same fate.
Lazy Twumble - J2EE Edition
Any experienced Enterprise Java developers out there that wouldn’t mind having a short email discussion with me?
Looking for qualified opinions on something. No heavy lifting required.
My email address is in the sidebar if you’re interested.
Are you?
“Kind of unique. Sort of pregnant. “High” priority.”
– Merlin Mann - Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities | 43 Folders
Wow. Talk about a significant typo. That’s the May 2009 issue in my previous post, not, as previously indicated, 2000.
I Know. That's The Joke. →
A public service site.
OMG you guys. You're not going to believe this.
Someone sent me links to some grammar pages, and apparently we’ve been using the wrong word!
We’ve been saying your, which is called a possessive pronoun, when we should have been using you’re, which is a contraction of you are.
I hope we won’t have anymore trouble with this, now that its been pointed out.
talby:
M.C. Hawking - Entropy
A detailed...
My Boo-Boo, Let Me Show You It →
For those, such as myself, morbidly curious about what a stapled together head looks like, this link’s to an iPhone snap of my five staples.
“That sounds more severe than really it is. This is standard operating procedure...”
– Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
These are the words that immediately followed “public health emergency in the United States”. Apparently this was too long of a sound bite for national media.
“Pain or damage don’t end the world — or despair or fucking beatings. The...”
– Al Swearengen
It would seem I'm one of them there "early...
In the announcement of Tumblr’s latest addition to staff, topherchris says he joined Tumblr 2/28/2007, a week after it launched.
Since my first post was March 7, 2007 that puts me joining within the first fortnight. No wonder I feel like I’ve always been here. I pretty much have, at least as long as there’s been a here.
Edit: Found my welcome email. I joined 3/3/2007
