Code || Theory

I moved my web services from Mediatemple to a box in a rack somewhere in Atlanta. I'm leasing the 1U from Chris Kelly, who is leasing several other Us, as well as power and bandwidth. My nerdier friends demand to know the specs (I ordered the box in parts from Newegg with "reasonable" as my only goal), but I'm not focused on such things -- merely being glad to be out of the Mediatemple grid server ghetto....

I like Youtube, but reading Youtube comments is like performing trepanation on your own head with a pencil eraser. I tell myself not to read them, but often they are in all caps, so they sneak into my brain anyway. I struggled with this pain for months before coming to a stunning realization: I can block Youtube comments with a tiny Greasemonkey script! However, simply shutting off comments didn't fill me with joy and hope. Fortunately, while discussing the dilemma with Zach, the solution presented itself: reduce the text of each comment to "Bla bla bla..." Genius! It may even ...

I don't know John Lim, but he linked to a Livejournal post where someone complained about their expectations being dashed when trying various comparisons....

The constant joke about the Microsoft Web Development Technology Summit was that they were spiking the Kool-Aid® with mind control drugs. There is direct evidence to the contrary:...

My Gallery recently had some serious database issues. I had to write some code outside of the Gallery proper to look for database errors. When I went to look for cycles in the tree, I didn't find any handy algorithms out in the wild of the internet, so I wrote something....