For a while, I was thinking about fleeing Jekyll for some other static-site generator.

This is an old TED talk but I heard it for the first time this past Saturday. The theory is that the reason why human intellectual capacity disproportionately surpasses the intellectual capacity of other species is because we learned how to cook.

I learned a lot about the Nokogiri gem (used to parse and manipulate XML and HTML) when I wrote a script to download all my FriendFeed posts.

I am amused (because I am a weirdo) by how common the paradigm of manipulating lists is in computer programming, specifically, the need to separate the first element in a list from the rest of the list.

I don't know/remember who to blame for teaching me the bogus rule that you can't use "whose" to refer to nouns that are not people, but I find myself constantly second-guessing myself when I do use it.

Flash is dead. It just hasn't stopped moving yet.

Saying “I give up” solves nothing.

I don't know why it should make a difference to think of communication this way, since after all, I don't particularly know aynthing about the current model [of communication.]

Oh, see the sunlight's play upon
the sapphire glaze of Western Sea
as fires dance across the sky
and daylight fades to memory