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Author Archives: Rob Friesel

About Rob Friesel

Software engineer by day. Science fiction writer by night. Weekend homebrewer, beer educator at Black Flannel, and Certified Cicerone. Author of The PhantomJS Cookbook and a short story in Please Do Not Remove.

Linkdump for March 3rd

by Rob Friesel

AirPort Extreme "Simultaneous dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi base station" — win win win win win win! (tagged: AirPort WiFi network wishlist todo ) The NewerTech Voyager Q review Hivelogic (via DF): This is pretty much exactly the solution I think I need. (tagged: Mac tech backup todo wishlist ) Structural Naming Convention in CSS (tagged: webdev […]

Linkdump for March 2nd

by Rob Friesel

"The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick" Rolling Stone Article by Paul Williams (November 6, 1975) at philipkdickfans.com (via B²) (tagged: writing scifi fiction weird interview PDF PKD todo ) Pixelmator via Mac AppStorm (this time…): I wonder if it's time to give it another spin? (tagged: Mac OSX software graphics […]

blurgle and blargh

by Rob Friesel

Though perhaps a bit early for my quarterly reflection on those personal goals, I feel like getting it off my chest:  things are not moving along at last year’s speedy clip.  I’ve scarcely written 1, I’m only on book #3 for the year, and progress on Ortho is slow at best – many fits and […]

“You have 2 cows…” (Vermont edition)

by Rob Friesel

If you haven’t seen the “You have 2 cows…” series of economics jokes…  Well, try here, here, and here.  And now, a polished version of an off-the-cuff crack I made earlier today:   A VERMONT CORPORATION You have two cows. One makes cheese, the other makes ice cream. Responding to allegations of rBGH injections on […]

Linkdump for February 24th

by Rob Friesel

Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street Great article, even if it glosses over certain things. Especially good in combination with: crisisofcredit.com — that said, I'm still not sure what a "credit default swap" is… (tagged: money economy business math ) Italian Food and Woodworking Does enlightenment bring with it responsibility and obligation? […]

Linkdump for February 18th

by Rob Friesel

IE Float model and the reality at CSS Class (tagged: webdev css IE floats essay todo ) When can I use… "Conclusion: Not Ready" — hope you like font tags! (tagged: webdev reference css ) Diagramming the Obama Sentence at The Millions (via B²): It was funny when the proverbial They did this for Palin's […]