Monthly Archives: January 2007

An HR corollary

Posted on 22 January 2007 by tychay

A while back, Stuart quoted:
“You will always be known for the people you’ve hired.”
—Rikk Carey, 2006
It’s a great quote. It’s amazingly insightful. It’s also a very dangerous one because it has horrible consequences that are fundamental if ignored:
[My thoughts after … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics | 1 Comment

Get a First Life

Posted on 22 January 2007 by tychay

Mildly amusing play on this.
I don’t play Second Life, but I definitely need to get a first life.

Posted in about me, society and culture | 1 Comment

Building your family tree with Geni

Posted on 22 January 2007 by tychay

Last week, Trevor sent me a link to Geni, which is a ajaxified family tree website.

Trevor noted that the API they’re using is html which is rendered through document.getElementById().innerHTML calls. They are missing an opportunity to release a real API … Continue reading →

Posted in web development | 3 Comments

Data entry on Address Book

Posted on 22 January 2007 by tychay

When I’m typing a lot into Mac OS X address book, sometimes the focus flips from the field I’m in directly into the Note field. It’s very annoying.
Anyone else have that happen?

Posted in Macintosh | 1 Comment

Random thought while unloading my car at 2AM

Posted on 22 January 2007 by tychay

My parking slot in my apartment costs about a third of my old car payment.

Posted in about me | 2 Comments

Hi little guy?

Posted on 18 January 2007 by tychay

Holly sent me this photo:

And accompanying video:

Posted in society and culture, television | 4 Comments

The origin on PHP trading cards

Posted on 18 January 2007 by tychay

“…and Terry started taking pictures as Terry does with everything.”
—Cal Evans, Editor of Zend Dev Zone, in a Pro::PHP Webcast

Look on my cards, ye Mighty, and despair
Open Source Conference 2006, Portland, Oregon
Nikon D200, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
DxO (exp, blur, distorion, … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, photography | 2 Comments

Beauty and the mofo Geek

Posted on 18 January 2007 by tychay

Ed thinks I should be on Beauty and the Geek.

Akk! My contacts didn’t survive the trip and I had to wear glasses. Luckily they’re not taped together.

To be honest, I’ve never seen the show—you mean cable isn’t just for broadband? … Continue reading →

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More thoughts while waiting for my fast food

Posted on 13 January 2007 by tychay

I’ve talked about this before, but since I’m on the move again, grocery shopping is out and fast food is back in. Here are three thoughts that have occurred to me while waiting for my order at the nearest three … Continue reading →

Posted in food and wine, society and culture | 8 Comments

Filming my swing

Posted on 7 January 2007 by tychay

Golf and I is the story of me trying to avoid anything resembling real exertion.
I started golfing when I joined J.V. Golf in high school to avoid the stigma of Physical Education. Like J.V. Baseball (which provided for me spring’s … Continue reading →