May 2009
32 posts
Well it was a good run I guess. #fb
May 1st
Let’s go Blazers. #fb
May 1st
Another OT game between the bulls and celtics? Amazing series.
May 1st
April 2009
59 posts
Navarre tonight for dinner with Ariel, @rcoder, and Hannah. Yum
Apr 30th
“Yeah, I went to the set….I can tell you that s—t was mindblowing. The s—t I saw...”
– director Steven Soderbergh, discussing James Cameron’s upcoming 3-D sci-fi epic “Avatar.” (Via TotalFilm.com.) (via ncroal)
Apr 30th
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Miro Adoption Center →
This is adorable.
Apr 30th
“I love _why, but learning Ruby from him is like trying to learn to pole vault by...”
– Steven Frank, from panic
Apr 30th
Blowing the stack in Ruby is depressingly easy to do with anything recursive.
Apr 30th
About Dshbrd: Your Analytics Dashboard →
New project.
Apr 30th
Good times. #fb
Apr 29th
Going to the Blazer game today. #fb
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
Protip: Googling for “mobile opera” and “opera mobile” take you to very different things.
Apr 28th
Servers well behaved for a few weeks, which means we’ve not been babysitting them as much, which causes a Monday morning sysadmin firedrill!
Apr 27th
Did Doris Burke just admit to being a Lakers fan? Wow.
Apr 26th
It always surprises me that the NFL draft is a bigger deal than the NBA playoffs. Watch basketball, people! #fb
Apr 26th
mercurial tasks extension →
This seems interesting. We use hg at Dabble for everything but the Smalltalk.
Apr 25th
Having trouble focusing today. Not sure what’s wrong. Maybe Blazers anxiety, maybe some subtle bug I caught.
Apr 25th
“Our implementation of Mercurial is built on top of Bigtable, making it extremely...”
– Google Code, announcing Mercurial hosting
Apr 24th
Intentional Software demo is so far a snoozer, but it’s finally to the demo now. They don’t seem to have any point.
Apr 24th
The intentional software demo is on video here. I’m watching it now.
Apr 24th
Steve Nash Presents SuperBADge →
Holy crap this is amazing.
Apr 24th
Somebody sent what appears to be a real @dabbledb support email that is a screenshot of the email text. I find this confusing.
Apr 23rd
Open Government Guide Front Page →
Apr 23rd
Am I too old for Facebook now, or has it lost most of its appeal? #fb
Apr 23rd
'Refrigerator' Perry hospitalized in SC →
Get well fridge.  This is especially odd to me because I had GBS when I was 7.
Apr 22nd
Trying to buy tickets to game 5 of #blazers #rockets, and it’s amateur hour at evenue.net. What a disaster.
Apr 22nd
dshbrd →
Our new project at Smallthought.
Apr 22nd
Blazers!!!!
Apr 22nd
Starting to get excited about the Blazer game tonight.
Apr 22nd
I’m having trouble waking up today.
Apr 21st
Too much email support and no coding makes Ben a dull boy.
Apr 21st
Thinking about my friends at Sun.
Apr 20th
Apr 17th
I got Blazer tickets.
Apr 17th
One day, I won’t have to roll my own CSV parser ever again. I look forward to that day.
Apr 17th
“The brownies are good for me to make three-points.”
– Rudy Fernandez, from Jason Quick’s outsanding “Behind the Blazers Locker Room Door” series on Oregonlive.com
Apr 17th
Apr 16th
My reading of NBA seeding rules is that Blazers and Rockets will play now no matter the outcome of this game, but homecourt is at stake.
Apr 16th
Apr 15th
chris blogs: Programming for Android with Scala →
This seems interesting.  I’ve always liked Scala in theory.
Apr 15th
A depressingly large number of people are at Burgerville in Centrailia for Easter dinner.
Apr 13th
Getting on the road to Canada much later than expected.
Apr 13th
V8 has more turtles on the way down.
I think V8 is the most exciting of the JS engines in development, partly because of the team behind it in Denmark but also because it passes an important test. V8 version 1.1.6 > [1,2,3].map function map(f, receiver) { if (!(typeof(f) === 'function')) { throw MakeTypeError('called_non_callable', [ f ]); } var length = this.length; var result = new $Array(length); for (var i = 0; i...
Apr 12th
Mailed off my taxes. Five envelopes this year is some kind of record.
Apr 12th
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Apr 10th
“117 points per 100 possessions for San Antonio. Against the Spurs. This is the...”
– Kelly Dwyer, Yahoo’s Ball Dont’ Lie About the Blazers
Apr 9th
http://geekhack.org/ →
This is a new contender for geekiest website ever.  Keyboard audio clips?
Apr 8th