2008 reading
¶ by Rob FrieselTaking a cue from Mike: 2008 Powered by Goodreads.com …minus a few children’s books.
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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.2009 Goals
¶ by Rob FrieselA little late in posting (compared to last year) but worth posting for the full disclosure aspect of it all. (Plus Mike said he wanted to see them.) As before, they’re like New Year’s Resolutions except measurable and realistic &c. and not vague. It’s the vagueness that’s cause for so much failure and abandonment, I […]
Linkdump for January 4th
¶ by Rob FrieselHen of the Wood "Fine Dining in Waterbury, Vermont" — recommended by Adam & Sue and now by the Terrapin… (tagged: via:terrapin Vermont food ) Acorn 1.5 release notes via DF: looks like some nice improvements (perhaps time to try it again?) — http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ (tagged: Acorn Mac OSX software graphics ) "Bacon Zombie" T-Shirt Design […]
the finest moment in the history of air travel
¶ by Rob FrieselPhoto by Ken Signorello (Green Destiny on Flickr).
Search Term Haiku: December 2008
¶ by Rob FrieselFacebook breastfeeding Quicksilver copy and paste zombiephobia or: fast torpedo sled bike from ME to AK holiday book lists As an aside to last month’s search term haikus, a couple of interesting observations from December’s search terms: 229 “zombie phobia”-related searches referred – including 21 for “ambulothanatophobia” and even one for “ambulothanatophobia get over it”. […]
2008 Goals: year in review
¶ by Rob Friesel2008 was the second year that we tracked some SMART goals here at F_D for its humble narrator. Our accomplishments during 2007 were excellent overall, so we decided to repeat the experiment. We mixed it up a bit for 2008, tweaking the individual goals, adding some new ones, removing other irrelevant ones… And 2008 mixed […]
Linkdump for December 31st
¶ by Rob FrieselThings 1.0rc now available at TUAW :: featuring a 20% off coupon code (tagged: Things GTD Mac OSX software todo ) Eventually Consistent – Revisited at All Things Distributed (tagged: essay scalability dev work todo ) Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (tagged: via:fogus language brain learning ) Version Control with Subversion (tagged: reference subversion ) Fairpoint Pledges To […]
wrastlin’ with IE6 float bugs
¶ by Rob FrieselI spent a little time this past weekend trying to wrap up my “for Ortho 0.5″ to-do list. Fixed a few obscure bugs, polished up a few items that had bugged me, deferred a few others to the Ortho 1.0 to-do list. And I was basically ready to close the book on Ortho 0.5 if […]
Linkdump for December 27th
¶ by Rob FrieselMake A GIF I've been obsessing about cheesy animated GIFs lately. I don't know why. (tagged: design graphics gif generator tools ) Whole Grain Soups and Stews At Mighty Foods. (tagged: via:aspiringlibrarian food recipe ) List of The Wire characters at Wikipedia: wanted: visualization of all characters, color-coded and indexed by the number of episodes […]
once again: Merry Xmas
¶ by Rob Friesel(Original photo on Flickr.)