Archive for January, 2007

An HR corollary

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

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 the jump.]

Get a First Life

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

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

Building your family tree with Geni

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

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 which would allow mashups with Flickr and Plaxo.
[My comments after the jump]

Data entry on Address Book

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

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?

Random thought while unloading my car at 2AM

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

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

Hi little guy?

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Holly sent me this photo:

And accompanying video:

The origin on PHP trading cards

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

“…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, ca, vignette. noise, lighting)
1/15sec @ f/4, iso 250, 26mm (39mm)

BTW, Marcus Whitney is in the [...]

Beauty and the mofo Geek

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

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? I’m not sure I would clean up on “that shit” though, unless the competitions were [...]

More thoughts while waiting for my fast food

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

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 fast food joints:
When I was in college, a “Thirsty two ouncer” from AM/PM was a [...]

Filming my swing

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

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 version of J.V. Golf), J.V. Golf was full of rejects like me who couldn’t golf [...]