Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins: Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database. The wise amongst you might note that this number is 2^24, or in MySQLese an unsigned mediumint. Unfortunately, like 5 years ago we changed our primary keys in the comment table to unsigned int (32 bits, or 4.1 billion) […]
stikkit (tags: ajax calendar GTD productivity social tech todo) Embed any image into a Google Map via Lifehacker (tags: map Google hack howto)
Writing location: Tonight? Just The Chair… Broke 20,000. And then kept going. Because I could. Because it was there. Five days ahead of pace now. (Is it a race? The NaNoWriMo boards tell me there’s some kind of word war going between Vermont and New Hampshire.) As promised (did I make a promise about this?) […]
I got a notification from Schmap.com: They’ve decided to include (with my permission) this photo of sushi from Matsuri for their Baltimore edition: Pretty neat! Guess they liked it, too…
A. & I kept hitting refresh last night slowly watching the precincts report in. 25%… 26%… Things turned out all right here. I’m still bitter about my attempts to vote yesterday. Such a Baroque and system of voter security. The state can’t keep track of my registration, won’t let me register on the same day, […]
The smell is overpowering. Like Her in death. No one can tell where it has come from. We pull our shirt collars up to our noses and wave our hands. The smell overtakes everything else. I’m elected to take care of it. I grab the garbage can and take it out to the edge of […]
Writing location: The Chair and The Chair alone Somehow I just can’t bring myself to squeeze out the 35 more words to make for the daily goal. Not tonight. Trying to vote today just took too much out of me. (Operative word here being “trying”.) So alas, no excerpt worth its starch to share tonight. […]
VOTE411.org (tags: politics reference voting)
Writing locations: The Chair, baby (totally the chair) …despite this evening’s birthday festivities, I still managed to fit in 1,626 words (that’s 97.54% of the daily target). In other words: I’m still four days ahead of pace. No complaints. And I’m even getting near the part that I think will turn out “good enough” to […]
TEH INTERNETS via B^2: a photoset on Flickr (tags: art comic geek humor) 10 Reasons to Buy a DSLR Camera via TheTechLounge (via LifeHacker) (tags: essay photography DSLR camera tutorial todo) CSSEdit “Web 2.0 in Style” (via TUAW): a feature-rich CSS editor for OS X (tags: CSS editor Mac OSX software)