2007

January

In San Jose this week | January 4 | Tagged: Personal

Professor Robert Solomon, RIP | January 7 | Tagged: Personal Philosophy_proper

Back from SJ, the Baroque Cycle Finished, and Headed to Houston | January 7 | Tagged: Austin Books Personal

In Java Training class | January 8 | Tagged: Personal Education

I caught the end of "War of the Worlds" | January 9 | Tagged: Entertainment Politics

Back from Houston, appropriately Java-ized | January 12 | Tagged: Java Travelogue

I am totally loving Guitar Hero II | January 13 | Tagged: Austin Culture

The Ice Storm ( no not a crappy ennui-drama about growing up in the 70’s ) | January 16 | Tagged: General

Gross Bathroom-related stuff, majorly not safe for lunch-time reading | January 16 | Tagged: Culture Design Travelogue

New Lease! | January 16 | Tagged: Personal Austin

Please, let us retire LOL | January 16 | Tagged: Internet_culture

No comment required: Bam-boozled | January 16 | Tagged: Politics

Still iced in... | January 17 | Tagged: Personal

Escaped Ice-o-Topia last night | January 18 | Tagged: Personal

February

Emerging from trogdolyte mode | February 1 | Tagged: Entertainment

Programmers: Are you good in math? | February 1 | Tagged: Culture Education Software

Someone I can root for at the Grammys | February 1 | Tagged: Music

Oh hey I forgot to mention, we're doing SXSW this year | February 1 | Tagged: Austin Personal

Headed to Atlanta | February 4 | Tagged: Travelogue

Ricky Bobby... | February 4 | Tagged: Entertainment

Visiting the Greenbelt on Sunday | February 6 | Tagged: Austin Sports

The Art of Dating A Developer Part I: Twitch Mode | February 7 | Tagged: Critique Culture Personal Internet_culture

Reasons *you* should come to SXSW this year | February 7 | Tagged: Austin Entertainment Music

Broadway shows not needing to be made... | February 9 | Tagged: Critique Entertainment

Happy Valentine’s Day, early | February 11 | Tagged: Personal

In Atlanta, but not on-line, under protest | February 11 | Tagged: Travelogue Houston Atlanta

Just echoing but... | February 12 | Tagged: Politics

What I did while I was not blogging: LaTeX | February 12 | Tagged: Latex Osx

Big Nerd Ranch: RoR Camp: Day 1 | February 12 | Tagged: Bignerdranch Education Travelogue

Big Nerd Ranch: RoR Camp: Day 2 | February 13 | Tagged: Bignerdranch Education Travelogue

Ruby on Rails Training Example: Allgemein Wigdgetfabrik | February 13 | Tagged: Apple Bignerdranch Ruby

Big Nerd Ranch RoR Camp: Rain! | February 13 | Tagged: Bignerdranch Travelogue

And yet again, Ms. Stefani | February 14 | Tagged: Music Personal

Big Nerd Ranch: RoR Camp: Day 3 | February 14 | Tagged: Bignerdranch Software Travelogue Education

I just remembered why I don’t wear a watch | February 14 | Tagged: Personal

Big Nerd Ranch: RoR Camp: Day 3: Evening: "The Grinder" | February 14 | Tagged: Ajax Bignerdranch Productivity Ruby Software Education

Big Nerd Ranch: RoR Camp: Day 3 (cont’d): Evening: "The fatigue" | February 15 | Tagged: Ajax Apple Bignerdranch Software Education

Big Nerd Ranch: RoR Camp: Day 4: The Reprieve | February 15 | Tagged: Bignerdranch Education Ruby Education

Meta: Small changes to layout underway | February 15 | Tagged: Apple Meta

Big Nerd Ranch: RoR Day 5, and back home | February 17 | Tagged: Austin Bignerdranch Ruby Education Travelogue

Preparing for the Big Nerd Ranch’s Ruby on Rails Class | February 17 | Tagged: Bignerdranch Productivity Ruby Education

Wrap-up of trip to The Big Nerd Ranch’s Ruby on Rails class | February 17 | Tagged: Bignerdranch Ruby Education

Thoughts on Atlanta | February 17 | Tagged: Critique

One more comment about Atlanta | February 17 | Tagged: Culture

Comfortable shoes for hackers | February 17 | Tagged: Design

Working hard to prepare, working hard to recover | February 18 | Tagged: Austin Personal

Getting harrassed by BCR Credit Collection Agency | February 19 | Tagged: Austin Entertainment

I feel like there should be a German word for this II | February 20 | Tagged: Humor Modern_times Ruminations

March

Moved! | March 1 | Tagged: Personal

Rails, and The Loneliness | March 6 | Tagged: Personal Programming Productivity

"I am half-sick of sidebars", said the Lady of Shalott | March 7 | Tagged: Meta

SXSW2007: The Premiere of "The Lookout" | March 10 | Tagged: Entertainment Movies Sxsw2007

SXSW2007: Morning 1, Interactive | March 10 | Tagged: Sxsw2007

SXSW2007: Day 2 | March 11 | Tagged: Movies Sxsw2007

SXSW20007: Funny things you learn at SXSW | March 12 | Tagged: Sxsw2007 Vim

SXSW2007 Bloggers, Authors, People who put letters on the Screen: We must do better typography | March 13 | Tagged: Sxsw2007

Ack, dmiessler, getting sneaky on me | March 15 | Tagged: Meta Personal

SXSW2007: Returning from planet SXSW this evening sometime... | March 17 | Tagged: Sxsw2007 Personal

SXSW2007: Film: Movies 3/9 - 3/11 | March 18 | Tagged: Sxsw2007

SXSW2007: Film: Movies 3/12 - 3/14 | March 18 | Tagged: Sxsw2007

SXSW2007: Film: 3/15 - 3/17 | March 18 | Tagged: Sxsw2007

Where’s the SXSW2007 wrap-up? | March 22 | Tagged: Meta

The yak-shaving is out of control | March 28 | Tagged: Meta Personal

Conversations with my mom... | March 29 | Tagged: Entertainment Personal

Oprah + Cormac = BFF | March 30 | Tagged: Books

April

Blog redesign continues... | April 2 | Tagged: Meta

New blog layout testing | April 12 | Tagged: Meta

Trying to get IE to not mangle the page | April 13 | Tagged: Blogging

Having screwed with my new theme way too much time lately | April 13 | Tagged: Meta

I learned to like Woody Allen a little bit when... | April 14 | Tagged: Entertainment

Stop the presses: Navigate Firefox with VIM-like key bindings | April 14 | Tagged: Productivity

Typographic Jihad: The parenthesis ligature | April 17 | Tagged: Typography

Typographic Jihad II: Why don’t North Americans use A4 paper? | April 17 | Tagged: Typography

I love^H^H^H^H like my nearby coffee place | April 17 | Tagged: Personal

On second thought... | April 18 | Tagged: Personal

New theme is active, bugs being ironed out | April 20 | Tagged: Meta

Dear blogosphere, how I’ve missed writing you | April 21 | Tagged: Meta

Humility: Finding old programs | April 22 | Tagged: Personal Programming

The happy couple: The Morales - Garcia wedding, April 21, 2007 | April 23 | Tagged: Austin Nostalgia Personal Pictures

Developers: The myth of starting from scratch | April 25 | Tagged: Programming Productivity

Kickin’ it with the classmates or The Season of Closing and Overlapping cycles | April 25 | Tagged: Austin Education Personal

And a dash of travel thrown in on the side... | April 28 | Tagged: Personal Worklife

Plus ça change... | April 28 | Tagged: Nostalgia Personal

I’m glad I’m not in the East Bay... | April 29 | Tagged: Nostalgia Personal

Arrived in RTP, NC | April 30 | Tagged: Personal Work

May

Rrroon Paul | May 1 | Tagged: Austin Politics

The Hip-Hop name of Mice Junior | May 3 | Tagged: Personal Worklife

Back in Waterloo | May 4 | Tagged: Personal Travelogue

Steven: Once un-helpful to Linux n00bs | May 5 | Tagged: Internet_culture

Better shape Steven | May 7 | Tagged: Personal

I webbed you... | May 8 | Tagged: Culture

Things I miss about San Francisco | May 8 | Tagged: Personal San_francisco

New media, new semester | May 8 | Tagged: Personal

Here comes The Tarot, doo-de-doo-doo-doo | May 9 | Tagged: Personal

Paper Mario is Excellent! | May 21 | Tagged: Entertainment

Where else have I been | May 21 | Tagged: Personal Travelogue

Austin Meetup.com Ruby Group Advertising | May 21 | Tagged: Ruby Web

Oh yes! «The Golden Compass» is coming | May 22 | Tagged: Entertainment Movies

Unable to upgrade to Wordpress 2.2: Not ready or am I missing something? | May 25 | Tagged: Meta Blogging

Steven: An Advertiser’s Best Friend | May 25 | Tagged: Critique Culture Design

Nancy Grace gets a lesson in .... | May 25 | Tagged: Critique

June

Dear LazyWeb: Should I buy a new MacBook? | June 7 | Tagged: Apple

Een stuk uit « Het Huwelijk » « The Wedding » | June 8 | Tagged: Nostalgia

Pieces of SXSW: I am a target market ( no pun intended ) | June 10 | Tagged: Culture Sxsw2007

SXSW2007: Film Session Wrap-Up | June 12 | Tagged: Sxsw2007

Scott Walker: My SXSW 2007 legacy | June 12 | Tagged: Art_and_design Austin Sxsw2007

The New Blue Car | June 13 | Tagged: Kickinitwitdaleague

So-Cal Shout Out | June 17 | Tagged: Travelogue

Boston-towne | June 18 | Tagged: Travelogue Work

Lessons from SXSWi, applied | June 18 | Tagged: Sxsw2007 Typography

SXSW2007: Why XSLT is sexy | June 18 | Tagged: Sxsw2007

Attending the Web 2.0 Conference, Boston MA | June 19 | Tagged: Programming Internet_culture

Tuesday night in Boston | June 20 | Tagged: Travelogue Work Internet_culture

Commentary by Ticketmaster | June 23 | Tagged: Art_and_design Entertainment

Wednesday night out in Boston Towne | June 24 | Tagged: Travelogue Worklife

Things I miss: Englishmen in Suits singing, with saxophones | June 24 | Tagged: Entertainment

Rubyists in Texas! | June 24 | Tagged: Ruby Austin Programming

Be careful with Futura | June 28 | Tagged: Typography

July

Political Correctness Trips over itself | July 3 | Tagged: Critique Culture Entertainment

Sick... | July 9 | Tagged: Personal

Bombshell | July 10 | Tagged: Austin Movies

Drugs are bad, m’kay | July 12 | Tagged: Personal

Spam reminds me sometimes... | July 12 | Tagged: Books

Begging the question | July 25 | Tagged: Critique Culture Modern_times

Many things going on... | July 25 | Tagged: Personal

Update: Shibboleth | July 26 | Tagged: General Personal

News: Getting upside down ( again ) | July 27 | Tagged: Travelogue

Weddings... | July 27 | Tagged: Personal

It shouldn’t be this hard... | July 31 | Tagged: Books

August

Sometimes they snap their fingers... | August 8 | Tagged: Personal

Lifeclock goes black: 0011110 | August 9 | Tagged: Personal

On the impending subprime lending crisis | August 10 | Tagged: General

Birthday Party | August 12 | Tagged: Personal

The religiosity of being insufficiently cute | August 13 | Tagged: General

C’est le finis | August 13 | Tagged: Education General

Thinking about news aggregation sites | August 13 | Tagged: Productivity Internet_culture

That whole metafilter post... | August 14 | Tagged: Productivity Knowledge_management

New Hosting | August 17 | Tagged: Meta

How totally freaking awesome is VMWare Fusion | August 18 | Tagged: Vmware Apple Osx

Dining out: Aborted | August 18 | Tagged: Austin Entertainment

A Mind-Map to Western Philosophy | August 18 | Tagged: Personal Philosophy_proper

If you do the "cable" thing, with the "TLC" channel | August 21 | Tagged: Entertainment Life_and_death

Quotes from Hayek | August 21 | Tagged: Modern_times Philosophy_proper

Fruits of my Labor: Trigonometry class over | August 21 | Tagged: Education

Sometimes the Internet requires me to "be open minded" | August 22 | Tagged: Entertainment

Don’t wanna be an American idiot | August 23 | Tagged: Culture Politics

The ancient arts: Geometry | August 24 | Tagged: Art_and_design Mathematics Science

September

Hell of a week | September 4 | Tagged: Personal

Making progress... | September 6 | Tagged: Culture

Letterpress: The joy of three dimensional reading | September 7 | Tagged: Art_and_design Books

Mac OSX Quest: Unicode + Command as Meta Terminal | September 8 | Tagged: Apple Osx

Leo LaPorte: Tune in, turn on, TWiT out | September 8 | Tagged: Internet_culture

Getting ahead in the world: Sī valēs, valēo | September 10 | Tagged: Productivity

Dorky or Awesome? Iron man and "Iron Man" | September 12 | Tagged: Critique Entertainment Movies

I feel like there should be a German word for this III | September 14 | Tagged: Austin Ruminations

Dvorak Snobbery | September 14 | Tagged: Productivity Dvorak

Taking some time off | September 15 | Tagged: Personal

Vacation, Week I, So Far: Textmate for Latin Students | September 18 | Tagged: Latin Ruby Textmate

We must be living through the end of our Empire | September 20 | Tagged: Latin Politics

On the Internet, things that are lost are occasionally regain’d | September 21 | Tagged: Art_and_design Latin Music

News of this week... | September 22 | Tagged: Personal

Embarrassment of Animals | September 25 | Tagged: Austin Personal

Week 2 of "Not Working" | September 26 | Tagged: Latin Personal

October

Quick Post as time is running short... | October 2 | Tagged: Personal Travelogue

Blogging on the West coast, about to cross the peaceful ocean | October 3 | Tagged: Travelogue

Manly, NSW, .au | October 7 | Tagged: Travelogue

More fun at Manly | October 10 | Tagged: Travelogue

Still in Sydney | October 17 | Tagged: Apple Travelogue

Jet Lag | October 22 | Tagged: Personal Travelogue

SSH Tunneling | October 22 | Tagged: Ssh Unix

Fall comes | October 23 | Tagged: Austin Personal

How will you be celebrating National Cosplay Day? | October 25 | Tagged: Modern_times

Dancin’ and Maskin’ | October 26 | Tagged: Austin Personal

Halloween Costumes | October 28 | Tagged: Art_and_design Personal

Scenes from the Leopard Release Party | October 30 | Tagged: Modern_times

The Darjeeling Mumbledy | October 30 | Tagged: Movies

November

Camp | November 3 | Tagged: Entertainment

I love the girl groups | November 5 | Tagged: Austin Music

Attention my Interfriends: SXSW is coming | November 5 | Tagged: Austin

Superman needs no foot-tapping, he has X-ray vision | November 10 | Tagged: Modern_times Movies

Quirky movies that don’t suck: "Lars and the Real Girl" | November 14 | Tagged: Modern_times Movies

Dealing with the flu, poorly. | November 16 | Tagged: Entertainment Personal

December

End of the Semester | December 2 | Tagged: Latin

Siiiiiiii-leeeeennnce | December 10 | Tagged: Blogging

Brave new world | December 20 | Tagged: Blogging Moving Personalsites.orgsucks Personal Software

Latin I Test collection | December 21 | Tagged: Latin

Non, je ne fume pas | December 21 | Tagged: Modern_times

Catch-up | December 22 | Tagged: Life Rails Latin Books Personal

Time for a startup: The Writers Strike | December 22 | Tagged: Entertainment Modern_times

Unicode test | December 22 | Tagged: Typography

Merry Christmas from Southern California | December 27 | Tagged: Personal Travelogue

Leaving SoCal | December 29 | Tagged: Travelogue Restaurant Longbeach