Archive for January, 2009
progress pt. 2
After initial enthusiasm, I’ve actually become quite annoyed with Movable Type. Complex things are possible, like making online photo galleries. Easy things, like adding a twitter badge, seem prohibitively difficult. Plus, if I wanted to mess around with Unix permissions all day, I’d become a system administrator. I just want to write useless shit that [...]
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We Do Not Torture
Not so sure that Bush’s statement still stands up to the laugh test, but this article from the Times should chip away at any remaining trust you may have had in the integrity of our War On Terroring. He was asked when he had gone to Afghanistan and how he had met Mr. bin Laden. [...]
stories
I was at a party last night discussing the phenomenon of rehearsed personal stories. We all have them, they’re the stories about yourself and your life that you’ve told enough to know which ones work and which ones don’t, which ones are funny, which ones make you sound like an asshole and in what situations [...]
progress
I’m in the process of moving this whole shebang to Movable Type, partly because I’m a giant nerd, but also because it just seems better. After spending the better part of my christmas break installing an MT-based photo gallery on the girlfriend’s family website, I came away somewhat impressed; there’s a lot of cool shit [...]
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