My technical meanderings and other nonsense. Published since 2002. No, really. I'm *that* internet-old. I remember the days of Please don’t tell me to “read the thread” – there are always new support representatives jumping in on tickets, and do not know the entire history of the ticket. You do, since you’ve been there for it all. But if I have a question, please don’t shoot me because maybe you mentioned it in an [...]
Category Archives: Rants
Another FriendFeed gripe: the delays
When I presented my FriendFeed wishlist, I tried to include everything that I considered about the product. A new issue has come to light that threatens my continued use of the FriendFeed service: the delays. The delays involve my content just posted to Site A not showing up on FriendFeed until hours, and sometimes days, [...]
Revisiting: email etiquette
From the matthom archives one year ago, and worth a revisit: Email etiquette: new topics deserve new threads. A year hasn’t changed much – I still receive email threads with mixed topics in my personal inbox, as well as tech-support queues I am responsible for. Too often I see people “cheating the system,” by starting [...]
Football weekly blame game
One thing I can’t stand about football (NFL, college) is the entire week off between games. It’s far too much time for the media to over-analyze everything. In other sports, like baseball, basketball, and hockey – there are more frequent games played, so even after a crushing loss, it may only be two or three [...]
Twitter: force me to accept new followers
I get so much Twitter “follow” bacn, I’ve completely suppressed such messages in Gmail. Instead of being displayed in my inbox, they immediately get archived – poof! Gone from sight. It became too much to keep up with. It would be different if my new followers were legitimate people looking to network over shared interests, [...]
Email etiquette: new topics deserve new threads
Summary: The subject of the email indicates the topics contained within. If you’re going to start a new topic, start a new email thread. I understand it’s easier to just spill out your thoughts in any email that you have open, but by doing so without regard to the subject, you’re damaging the integrity of [...]
Twitter: give me my tweets!
This is absurd. Here’s what a I want, and what Twitter will not allow: Every day, I want to see the tweets I posted exactly a year ago, this date. From what I can tell, there is no way to specify a date in an API request. There are two methods that appear to do [...]
Bugs vs. training issues
My thoughts on being a web developer and dealing with user requests/problems.
VMware Fusion large source files
I’ve been using VMware Fusion on OS X whenever I need to run Windows XP. It is great to have both environments running side-by-side. One issue I’ve noticed with VMware is the very large source files. A “virtual machine” is simply a document on your hard drive. I leave my Windows XP virtual machine on [...]
Commonly misused phrases and clichés
I started an Utter thread on misuse of the phrase, “I could care less.” Since then, many have chimed in with other misused phrases: “Have your cake and eat it too.” “You cease to amaze me.” Many are aware that I have very little patience for bad grammar, and the same goes for commonly misused [...]