blog archive

March 2010

If, like me, you hose Apache on your Ubuntu LTS server when you finally...

4 Mar 2010
Things don't get much better than Eric Snider's "Snide...

1 Mar 2010

February 2010

Preparing a string for use in a PHP regular expression.

26 Feb 2010
The appendices of the CSS specification are in alphabetical order

24 Feb 2010
A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things -- Daily Intel

18 Feb 2010
Engineers at Home

12 Feb 2010

January 2010

American Pixels

20 Jan 2010

December 2009

My year in cities, 2009

31 Dec 2009

October 2009

Google Wave for iPhone is HOT.

20 Oct 2009
The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”

19 Oct 2009
Online Poll Fail

15 Oct 2009

September 2009

Presented without comment

15 Sep 2009

August 2009

Spyc vs. syck: Speedier YAML parsing in PHP

29 Aug 2009
Regarding free soda

27 Aug 2009
Permanent Brunch has a bacon bar

18 Aug 2009
Schrödinger's Kitten: The Fruit Is A Lie

12 Aug 2009
...It had better be something everybody wants to buy.

6 Aug 2009

July 2009

Coda tip: show "invisible characters" when you highlight text

29 Jul 2009
Pepsi is listening, tell them to bring Mtn Dew Throwback back!

28 Jul 2009
One reason programmers dislike meetings so much...

23 Jul 2009
Pro Tip: Use an explicit LIMIT in Doctrine

23 Jul 2009
Wait. Kindles are only three hundred bucks?

21 Jul 2009
El Scorcho in 8 bits

21 Jul 2009
Things I'd love to see in Pukka

18 Jul 2009
Better than Follow Friday

18 Jul 2009
Hey! Watch this!

11 Jul 2009

June 2009

You should be reading Neven Mrgan's Tumbl

30 Jun 2009
Microsoft's Browser Comparison Chart

18 Jun 2009
We're going to play a new game...

17 Jun 2009
Save yourself from the Twitpocalypse with this handy bookmarklet

12 Jun 2009
All Your Base Dialogue, As Translated by Google

5 Jun 2009
em v. px

4 Jun 2009

May 2009

Charles Darwin, on wives

30 May 2009
Do yourself a favor...

26 May 2009
Six fun Twitter searches

18 May 2009
Radical

16 May 2009
Let's go to the Anamanaguchi show

8 May 2009
Happy Sunday! Listen to Chairlift!

3 May 2009
How to: back up your iPhone with rsync

2 May 2009

April 2009

It bears repeating

30 Apr 2009
I don't think you ever see a Lindy Hopper that's not smiling...

27 Apr 2009
Caring for your introvert

26 Apr 2009
The grass is already growing over him

19 Apr 2009
Contented

19 Apr 2009
IE 6 "Update"

18 Apr 2009
Ever wonder what's up with Vim on your Ubuntu boxen?

17 Apr 2009
One song by the Two Gallants

8 Apr 2009
Ballmer is only half right

6 Apr 2009
"Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism."

5 Apr 2009
Nitrogen Pink and other songs that make me happy

2 Apr 2009

March 2009

Driving Lesson

29 Mar 2009
If you read one thing today, make sure it's this blog post

28 Mar 2009
If you could...

26 Mar 2009
Declaring War on Internet Explorer 6

20 Mar 2009
People say 'I'm just being myself'...

18 Mar 2009
Read this blog: The Scooter Lounge

12 Mar 2009
Post-mortem of a Search Engine Suicide

11 Mar 2009
Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz

7 Mar 2009

February 2009

A PHP Framework Showdown

26 Feb 2009
Indecision is a decision too

24 Feb 2009
"We wanted an easier way to add Google Analytics to our pages and our...

24 Feb 2009
Fuzzier (human-friendly) timestamps with Drupal 6.x

23 Feb 2009
Customer disservice

21 Feb 2009
Converting to git-svn: A Collection of Links

14 Feb 2009
I have good news

6 Feb 2009
'Unsupported operand types' in Drupal 6.x

5 Feb 2009
Changes

5 Feb 2009

January 2009

In most cases, I'll settle for 'less annoying'

27 Jan 2009
i'm still here

26 Jan 2009
Smarty {html_options} plugin with 'disabled' support

19 Jan 2009
When you're in the mood for a cynical love song...

8 Jan 2009
Free tip for copyright holders

4 Jan 2009

December 2008

Install this Firefox extension: Tabs Open Relative

26 Dec 2008
Happy Boxing Day!

26 Dec 2008
PHP Docblock generator plug-in for Coda

20 Dec 2008
I'll just look at a couple more websites.

14 Dec 2008
When you struggle with pointers

10 Dec 2008
That is all.

7 Dec 2008
It's important to remember that the user isn't a marionette.

4 Dec 2008

November 2008

How to use your iPhone while lying down in bed

16 Nov 2008
Should I use tables for layout?

15 Nov 2008
MR. PRESIDENT: I look forward to being disappointed in new ways.

10 Nov 2008
Quality vs Quantity

2 Nov 2008
If you want a peek into what goes on in my head...

1 Nov 2008

October 2008

SearchWiki - Google's customized social search is back

27 Oct 2008
"Swiss Army" software

26 Oct 2008
What's the deal with Microsoft's Live Search results?

25 Oct 2008
Good VCs will fund good companies...

12 Oct 2008
Two Equal and Opposite Errors

7 Oct 2008
"I will do one thing today"

7 Oct 2008
The perfect subway app

5 Oct 2008
Technophobe Is Starting to Get a Decent Collection of iPhone Apps

4 Oct 2008
Farewell, NDA

1 Oct 2008

September 2008

What we can learn about usability...

30 Sep 2008
Command-line batch cron processing for Drupal

30 Sep 2008
What the Milkshake?

19 Sep 2008
State of the Union

18 Sep 2008
the Air

18 Sep 2008
This is why I read Seth Godin

18 Sep 2008
How do you find your biggest fans?

16 Sep 2008
Pirate envy

8 Sep 2008
tentatively

7 Sep 2008
statistics

5 Sep 2008
de La Rochefoucauld, on censure

3 Sep 2008

August 2008

identi.ca users: how important is security to you?

28 Aug 2008
If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse...

26 Aug 2008
neuter the backspace key, save your email messages, blog posts, and sanity

22 Aug 2008
more jQuery typography

14 Aug 2008
multisite drupal problems

13 Aug 2008
a better TinyURL bookmarklet!

12 Aug 2008
A jQuery "widon't" snippet

8 Aug 2008
Hey Dale Harney, you missed a spot

8 Aug 2008
iPhone backup shootout: iTunes vs. rsync

4 Aug 2008
picking a fight

3 Aug 2008

July 2008

myPhone

25 Jul 2008
Moderation

24 Jul 2008
Reset menu sort "weight" in Drupal 6

21 Jul 2008
How does that proverb go?

16 Jul 2008
More on Google's "Digg-like" social search

16 Jul 2008
Google's "Edit Search results" experiment

15 Jul 2008
if you must IE, please IE responsibly

8 Jul 2008
tired of being sexy

7 Jul 2008
Tech.nopho.be

5 Jul 2008
The value of a perk is inversely related to the expectation of that perk.

3 Jul 2008

June 2008

del.icio.us, chapter 3 - wherein his bookmarks offer a peek into his head

16 Jun 2008
download firefox 3 on tuesday

13 Jun 2008
songs about cartography

11 Jun 2008
wrand(); // a php weighted randomization function

5 Jun 2008

May 2008

help me settle an argument

26 May 2008
brightkite fails

26 May 2008
sigh... monday

26 May 2008
Firefox 3, Del.icio.us Bookmarks and consistent interface

15 May 2008

April 2008

jQuery update in a multisite drupal environment

28 Apr 2008
plainness becomes beautified

25 Apr 2008
current mood:

11 Apr 2008
"firefox is a gateway drug"

11 Apr 2008
a brilliant example of text only typography

5 Apr 2008
avast! pirates!

3 Apr 2008

March 2008

Safari nightly build aces Acid3 test

26 Mar 2008
black is the new black

20 Mar 2008
Sometimes OS X hates my wireless Logitech mouse

19 Mar 2008
we're all afraid of getting stabbed violently by People Who Don'...

19 Mar 2008
"homogenized is the new overheard"

5 Mar 2008
never

5 Mar 2008

February 2008

uberquick comments in html/xhtml

28 Feb 2008
byusa is gearing up for elections

25 Feb 2008
one of my favorite things about twitter

23 Feb 2008
De-emphasis in design is every bit as important as emphasis

19 Feb 2008
a new pair of new balance

18 Feb 2008
i'm so over iTunes

18 Feb 2008
it's my fault

16 Feb 2008
beware...

13 Feb 2008
Why I will never purchase software from Yazsoft again

13 Feb 2008
a drupal path redirect bookmarklet

9 Feb 2008
I'm typing this blog post on my MacBook Air

7 Feb 2008
"Witch" window switcher by many tricks

5 Feb 2008
I haven't slept for ten days

4 Feb 2008
Dear Diary:

1 Feb 2008

January 2008

What exactly justifies making SMS messages sixty one million times more...

28 Jan 2008
Mood: A bit sad

27 Jan 2008
Microsoft's best interest

14 Jan 2008
He "died in a blogging accident"

11 Jan 2008
on wrecking a scooter

8 Jan 2008
If you work in customer service and/or returns

5 Jan 2008
the myspace kids are out in force

3 Jan 2008
twitter stats

2 Jan 2008

December 2007

why is it that...

31 Dec 2007
NBC Universal has an XML schema for DMCA infringements

26 Dec 2007
merry christmas from the blagosphere

25 Dec 2007
on spending time with family

24 Dec 2007
...it's certainly going to be a Next Big Language.

20 Dec 2007
Paper is an agricultural product, made from trees grown specifically for...

18 Dec 2007
keeping my custom leopard stack overlays in front!

18 Dec 2007
protocols with few options tend towards ubiquity, whereas protocols with...

17 Dec 2007
twitter is down for scheduled maintenance

16 Dec 2007
download the dark knight trailer, in high def

16 Dec 2007
do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?

16 Dec 2007
@ted boren: that was your own headhunter...

16 Dec 2007
Anger can be brilliantly motivating; but anger is not a strategy.

15 Dec 2007
i hate spammers

14 Dec 2007
the weather outside is frightful

10 Dec 2007
a noble man

6 Dec 2007
it's interesting how often we define things by what they are not.

5 Dec 2007
new gmail label colors!

3 Dec 2007
mouse cursor IRL

3 Dec 2007
To the author of the bot trying to comment spam my blog

2 Dec 2007
to my fellow survivors

2 Dec 2007

November 2007

in retrospect

30 Nov 2007
note to self:

29 Nov 2007
how not to SEO (search engine optimize) your landing page

28 Nov 2007
a taste for literature

28 Nov 2007
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are...

27 Nov 2007
think productivity

26 Nov 2007
NaBloPoMo?

25 Nov 2007
55: A Meditation on the Speed Limit Around the Perimeter

24 Nov 2007
Stella!

23 Nov 2007
this thanksgiving i'm thankful for crayons

22 Nov 2007
catch the poo

21 Nov 2007
...if oxen and horses or lions had hands

21 Nov 2007
farzad "frankie" fard

20 Nov 2007
street signs and breadcrumbs

19 Nov 2007
and today we sleep

18 Nov 2007
i took the long way home today

17 Nov 2007
byusa is like a student council only worse...

16 Nov 2007
I hate BYUSA

16 Nov 2007
this bro is intense... guitar hero III, crazy song, turned up to eleven.

15 Nov 2007
the nerd handbook

14 Nov 2007
sweet nothings

13 Nov 2007
i'm updating my blog theme

12 Nov 2007
and some days it feels good to just sleep

11 Nov 2007
i never dance anymore...

10 Nov 2007
gmail gets new urls, breaks better gmail

9 Nov 2007
Arnold Bennett on sleep

8 Nov 2007
speeding up firefox

7 Nov 2007
There is no switch that will insulate us from the Internet's effect.

6 Nov 2007
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

5 Nov 2007
howto: remove candle wax after you get it all over your desk

4 Nov 2007
i'm not really sleepy... inspiration: ...

3 Nov 2007
how much is music industry reform worth to you?

2 Nov 2007
i scribbled this in the margin of a test i took the other day

1 Nov 2007

October 2007

The balance of passionate and dispassionate, appeal and functionality, is...

24 Oct 2007
mac + firefox + justin's blog = wow

17 Oct 2007
so what happened to "reduce"?

15 Oct 2007
as seen on craigslist

5 Oct 2007
where does the justin come from?

3 Oct 2007

September 2007

censorship

27 Sep 2007
free Redbox rental code

25 Sep 2007
simon says

20 Sep 2007
Avast!

19 Sep 2007
why i like unicode

17 Sep 2007
well that didn't take long...

17 Sep 2007
xkcd on dating

10 Sep 2007
get involved: blog action day 2007

9 Sep 2007
overheard

5 Sep 2007
Paying for Schwag

3 Sep 2007
Ubuntu users! Repent now!

2 Sep 2007
time based interaction

2 Sep 2007
worthless security measures

1 Sep 2007

August 2007

i read 54 different blogs every day

30 Aug 2007
why flash sucks

29 Aug 2007
spoiler alert: this blog entry contains punchlines

25 Aug 2007
i was waking up early for a while

23 Aug 2007
i gots me a fixie

22 Aug 2007
Snippet of the day: Trim a string (the smart way) with PHP

22 Aug 2007
file this under "places i wouldn't put a loaded gun"

14 Aug 2007
poop

14 Aug 2007
darrrrr!!! join the utah pirate party!

10 Aug 2007
In case you were wondering

9 Aug 2007
msplinks.com link generator

5 Aug 2007
minor irritation

1 Aug 2007

July 2007

mandatory reboot

30 Jul 2007
google analytics is down

30 Jul 2007
magic SMS status messages with Textmarks

24 Jul 2007
five.sentenc.es

24 Jul 2007
a giant space banana

22 Jul 2007
i like my computer

20 Jul 2007
to: cache valley

17 Jul 2007
attention scammers:

17 Jul 2007
celebrate fair use! july 11

11 Jul 2007
Twitter + Remember The Milk = Productivity Addiction

10 Jul 2007
mozilla firesomething

6 Jul 2007
ǝpoɔıun ʇɹɐǝɥ ı

1 Jul 2007

June 2007

and a happy iPhone day to you too

29 Jun 2007
i look away for a second and gizmodo goes gizm[ugly]

29 Jun 2007
new features! ch-ch-check it!

28 Jun 2007
howto: make your fresh Windows XP install usable

23 Jun 2007
i'm starting a grassroots movement

22 Jun 2007
almost poetry

22 Jun 2007
msplinks.com kills MySpace link SEO karma

18 Jun 2007
twitter!

14 Jun 2007
it's tomorrow now

11 Jun 2007
justin hileman dot info is featuriffic!

10 Jun 2007
my space is cooler than your space

8 Jun 2007
a more secure drupal [multisite] install

5 Jun 2007
necessity and innovation

3 Jun 2007
blah.

3 Jun 2007

May 2007

i have a number now too!

7 May 2007
a few not-so-essential firefox extensions that i can't live without

4 May 2007

April 2007

Google acquires a conflict of interest

22 Apr 2007
i heart stella

22 Apr 2007
to: annoying, sweet-bro, douchebag neighbors

20 Apr 2007
digital music (r)evolution

9 Apr 2007
one more vote for patent law reform

9 Apr 2007
three network marketing hummers

9 Apr 2007

March 2007

free vs. open

29 Mar 2007
[re]location

27 Mar 2007
who hosts a website on a windows box?

15 Mar 2007
modernizing history

13 Mar 2007
girls don't play with computers

13 Mar 2007
chaos in man, although hopeful... can also be a little tiresome.

8 Mar 2007
does that security vulnerability come standard, or did you pay extra?

6 Mar 2007
costly capital

1 Mar 2007
make it big and bail early

1 Mar 2007

February 2007

feature creep == sleep deprivation

27 Feb 2007
the illusion of security

22 Feb 2007
some days it's hard to have an opinion

15 Feb 2007
i drank too much today

14 Feb 2007
real soup doesn't come from a can

13 Feb 2007
connectivity is not a sin

8 Feb 2007
hell in a handbasket

6 Feb 2007
nature or nurture?

1 Feb 2007

January 2007

In the land of the verbs, Google is king

25 Jan 2007
innovation gets the shaft

23 Jan 2007
musings on expectations

18 Jan 2007
two kids in a garage

16 Jan 2007

December 2006

freedom!1!!

22 Dec 2006
a.m.

18 Dec 2006
6:15 am

15 Dec 2006
five buildings...

12 Dec 2006
it's a long walk down that stairway...

2 Dec 2006

October 2006

random thoughts

27 Oct 2006
...

26 Oct 2006
my life is a giant game of whack-a-mole®

10 Oct 2006
Hubble Discovers Dark Spot on Uranus

4 Oct 2006
sarah judge sent me cookies.

1 Oct 2006

September 2006

on meeting old acquaintances

24 Sep 2006
Some things I'm digging

14 Sep 2006
i just saved 50%* on my groceries!

13 Sep 2006

August 2006

starting fresh and firefox extensions...

31 Aug 2006
»

30 Aug 2006
...

27 Aug 2006
it's official

10 Aug 2006

May 2006

know what's funny?

1 May 2006

April 2006

today i disabled caps lock

28 Apr 2006
poop.

23 Apr 2006
one bro's soap is another bro's artwork

20 Apr 2006

March 2006

what do you do when you meet someone incredible?

17 Mar 2006
Today I peed at harvard

15 Mar 2006
musings on personal space

9 Mar 2006

January 2006

Attention: Scene kids and Hipsters

24 Jan 2006

November 2005

ridiculous dance party

1 Nov 2005

October 2005

no such thing as a free ice cream sandwich

18 Oct 2005

September 2005

who's dancing now?

26 Sep 2005

August 2005

shut up

9 Aug 2005

July 2005

I laugh

8 Jul 2005

June 2005

z is for zamboni

26 Jun 2005
As I lay dying

26 Jun 2005
To: Idaho

16 Jun 2005
a little too late

10 Jun 2005
I'll take the spam spam spam spam spam bacon and spam

4 Jun 2005

May 2005

>

24 May 2005

April 2005

melancholy

28 Apr 2005
impromptu dance party. my place. right now.

25 Apr 2005
seeking: soulmate

13 Apr 2005
every day i polish my revolver and shoot my head.

7 Apr 2005
thursday

1 Apr 2005

March 2005

80 percent ain't shabby

28 Mar 2005
re: a medley of thoughts on the current housing situation

20 Mar 2005

February 2005

i suck at girls

7 Feb 2005
testing...

4 Feb 2005

January 2005

despair

31 Jan 2005
in mourning the passing of one pizza

13 Jan 2005

December 2004

finals

11 Dec 2004

November 2004

Thoughts

20 Nov 2004
ill

9 Nov 2004
single serving

5 Nov 2004
food for toghuht

4 Nov 2004
tartarus revisited

3 Nov 2004

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