This feature has been around for a bit but I only took notice of it recently. Considering I work at Goodreads and am looking at the site constantly, I take that as a sign that it may be a little buried. If you’re a frequent user of your local library, then it may be [...]
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
4 of 5 stars
Reading Microserfs for the first time right now is a strange feeling. Parts of it are so distinctly 90s dot-com culture that I feel like I’m watching people through a time warp. It’s as if I had gone into a time machine and emerged 20 years in [...]
After using the Nook for a little less than a week, I can justifiably say that ebook readers, are maybe just not for me for the time being. When the more known Kindle first came out, I had gadget-envy just because e-ink was so different than the LCD screens I’ve grown accustomed to. It was [...]
My friend Jessica showed me the Project 365 iPhone app (iTunes link) which inspired me to finally try my hand at Project 365 this year. In a nutshell, it’s taking one picture for every day of the year so that at the end of the year, I have a picture diary. The main hurdle [...]
One thing that really irks me when developing is bad error messages. Bad as in unhelpful. Bad as in vague. Bad as in “WTF, I fixed the problem, but I still don’t know what that error message meant.”
That message was caused by me passing in a hash instead of an array of hashes. Luckily, I [...]
Note: I took the download link down because there was one crucial step I forgot to list. I’ll revise this and repost it in a few days after I figure out the workflow for that step.
If, like me, you have tons of pictures on your Flickr.com account which you use on your blog, you probably [...]
I was already a fan of a Martinez over a Martini and making it with Ransom Old Tom Gin is a real treat. The gin is an unusual (for gin) brown color and has slightly sweeter taste to it thanks to the added malt. I like it because it doesn’t taste like a [...]
