I’ve been particularly quiet these last couple of days because I’ve been working on the new wedding website. Well that and slogging through some data analysis for a journal article. Anyway, head on over there and let me know what other CSS nightmares I’ve caused. http://tying.the.knot.org PS: No, I didn’t plan that when we got …
Author Archives: sandro
iPad Idiocy
Or more specifically, the nonsense that some sites are propagating in the name of the iPad. I know they’re just trying to garner page-views by starting controversy, but it’s still sheer nonsense nonetheless. Here’s a quick sampling: 5 Reasons Why We Are Already Depressed About The iPad — Seriously? This article wouldn’t even be worth …
Diversions: Gravity Hook
From the people who brought us “Canabalt“, there’s now Gravity Hook HD. It’s only available online at the moment, but it’s coming soon for the iPhone. I’m already kinda into it. It’s not Canabalt, but it’s still pretty fun. Like Doodle Jump with different mechanics.
Prosecute the Parents
Story of a silly, pointless, avoidable death: here. Seriously, who cares why the 3-year-old messed with a loaded gun left on the table. Prosecute the parents for endangering the child by making a loaded weapon available. Somehow making this the fault of the Wii, which does not come with a “solid black automatic-looking type mechanism” …
Mad Men meets Barbie
I’m a big fan of the AMC original series Mad Men, but somehow I think the Brooks Brothers suit designed by the costume director was a better product tie-in: Betty Meets Barbie as Mattel Launches Mad Men Collector Dolls
A Couple Blog Stats
In the last 4 years, Akismet has handled 102,497 spam comments. That’s better than 25k spam messages a year. Pretty impressive when you consider that Google Analytics says the site had less than 10k pageviews last year. I know that the spambots do not generate trackable pageviews, but it’s pretty sad that more log space …
Perspectives on Programming
Lately Mike Taylor over at the Reinvigorated Programmer has been on a roll with a couple of interesting blog posts (at least interesting enough to make Slashdot). First he blogged about deterioration of programming into pure drudgery and more recently he’s disagreed with Dijkstra on the value of BASIC as a first programming language. Here …
Why I Love Cars
Since I just posted about the Corrado, and I sometimes get asked about my fondness for cars, I thought I’d take the liberty of linking to an article from Esquire magazine that just about sums it up for me: The Conversion of an Apathetic Driver Any questions? (OK, that’s a picture of the R8 — …
Why it’s time to sell AAPL
After more than 20 years as an Apple user, and well over a decade as an investor, it’s articles like this one that have me considering dumping my stock: 5 reasons to buy Apple stock again Seriously, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the mainstream this pro-Apple. Either they’re poised to take over the industry, …
Review: CTEK 7002 Battery Charger
I’m a bit odd when it comes to car repair. I like to get my hands dirty, but I’m not really reliable enough to accomplish all the work I need to do on the cars. The result is that my Corrado is constantly in need of some attention, and recently that attention is almost exclusively …