Right now, the Unix Epoch Time is 1234567890.
Is it excessively nerdy that I’ve been looking forward to this for the past few years?
CSS vs Tables: You’re Doing It Wrong
Definitions first.
Table
A specified set of columns and rows with cells that automatically and fairly smartly expand to fit their contents; cells can span rows or columns; the table as a whole can be treated as one block, and cells can contain tables. A table is a metaphor for visually laying out 2-dimensional content.
CSS
cascading style sheets; …Read More
Nerdery
David Spade will forever have a special place in my heart for what he did in the movie Tommy Boy. I’m not sure if it was his creation, but in that movie, Spade delivered a line that added one of my favorite words to the english language:
My fellow nerds and I will retire to …Read More
How Not to Get Real (and die trying)
Recently, Auston of the Dashboard Leadlog startup in Florida posted a somewhat snarky blog post about one of the responses to a job opening at their company. I more or less said the same things that appeared on Hacker News. Eventually my comment may show up, but it’s buried at #20, so I …Read More
My Letter to Obama
It’s a bit off-topic for this blog, but it’s important.
Please head over to Obama’s website and let the new administration know what you expect from your government.
This is the letter I just sent.
Mr. President Elect Barack Obama,
We spend far too much money on policing the world with a network of bases. Our military empire …Read More
The Haiku OOO Email
When I started at Yahoo on the Games team, there was a custom that resonated deeply with me, which was started by Dean Yu.
All “work from home” emails or “out of office” emails had to be sent in the form of a haiku. This rule was not enforced, but it’s the kind of thing …Read More