Archive for September, 2009
Host your own Windows party
This is fucking hilarious to me. The dialog is so stilted and awkward, Ricky Gervais would have a hard time coming up with something better. You can practically hear the little ™ signs as they recite the product names. Also, the camera operator is either profoundly drunk or a 10-year-old who cannot stand still and…
How Reddit does permalinks
This is essentially a “nothing” post. Just something my digging has unearthed, something that was in plain sight all along but somebody out there might be interested. Reddit’s URLs for comments look like this: http:// www.reddit.com/ r/ [SubredditName]/ comments/ [SubmissionID]/ [SanitizedSubmissionTitle]/ The [SanitizedSubmissionTitle] part is calculated by taking the real title of the submission and…
Only losers update their blogs
So I’ve tried to reduce my time on the Xbox gaming in the hopes of finding the time to start a new pet project. Progress has been slow but things are starting to simmer. Idea #1 was to learn a Radiohead song on the guitar. That got old fast. They need to write easier songs…