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In the end, that’s what this internet is about. Do we participate in a project of cynicism or a project of code? Project managers call on us to code. Investors call on us to code. I’m not talking about blind optimism here — the almost willful ignorance that thinks bugs will go away if weContinue reading “The Audacity of Code”

When I was in high school I drank Coca Cola like a fiend. When I was in college I was thrilled when three-liter bottles came out. After college I hit my largest weight ever, 225 pounds. Not good. Around the time I met Niki, I was drinking up to two two-liter bottles a day. IContinue reading “Living without soda”

I met an old friend of mine at an event he was attending and another old friend walked up and introduced me to the guy he was talking to, Jack Myers. I don’t know if I gave Jack my business card or if he just has the mutant ability to sense peoples’ email addresses, but IContinue reading “Antigua threatens our IP”

I haven’t blogged in more than six weeks, mainly because there wasn’t a lot of news I wanted to share publicly. Plus, it’s just easier to give a half dozen updates over Twitter every day. Twitter has ruined blogging. We have a baby daughter arriving any day now. Niki’s mom died a week ago on a cruiseContinue reading “Quiet time”

I love web comics. I have a comic book publishing company that’s giving away comics online for free and I follow several strips both on their sites and in my feed reader. Some creators post their whole comic in their feeds and some just send out links letting you know a new strip is online. One of the onesContinue reading “Savage Chickens: One more reason I love web comics”

Niki is a big Nathan Lane fan so for Christmas I got us tickets to the matinee performance of November on Saturday, plus the all-important baby-sitter. November is a new play by David Mamet about a first-term U.S. president who is guaranteed to lose his upcoming re-election bid. He has messed up the country pretty badly andContinue reading “Nathan Lane in David Mamet’s November”

Marc Orchant was a long-time Weblogs, Inc. Network (WIN) blogger. He was the first blogger I got email from when our servers were hacked during my anniversary trip in July 2005. Sadly, he’s not the first WIN blogger I knew who has died. At our WINstock dinner two short years ago, Marc didn’t have a problem with my dev team piratingContinue reading “Marc Orchant died”

There’s a Wikipedia page with the speech Nixon was prepared to read in the event that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin didn’t make it home from their trip to the moon. I think about these kinds of contingency plans companies prepare all the time and sometimes you even read a headline that was written expecting an electionContinue reading “Apollo 11’s worst case scenario”

When I was outed on Twitter, I did a recap of some of my favorite tweets like Matt Heerema and Jeffrey Zeldman do. Here is another list of some select Twitter statuses, in the very un-blog-like oldest-to-newest order: “Would you like me to leave some of this here, as a warning to the new bottles?” http://tinyurl.com/2lj4jt Sep 13 Just sang Mr. RobotoContinue reading “My favowit tweets”

Ten years ago today Niki and I got engaged in Mystic, CT. I often think about how different we were back then from how we are now and I’m stunned at how lucky I was that we found each other — even more so that we decided to spend our lives together. I thought weContinue reading “I’m blessed”