The Woodwork

CNET is hosting an open house on October 2nd (Tuesday). Given that every PHP Meetup in SF has been cancelled the night before, I suggest you go to this.
GameSpot, TV.com, MP3.com and FilmSpot.com will be having a panel discussion on using PHP/MySQL framework to share code between multiple sites that support 49 million [...]

Twitter has all of the sleaziness of stalking with none of the messy work of having to actually leave my desk. But I found a dark underside to it: it makes stalking way too easy. Sometimes I get caught in my laziness:
Out in the real world, a girl comes up to me. “Hey!”
Me: “Hi. I’m [...]

A lot of people at work were asking me about this bright red cut I had on my nose today. The truth of the matter is, I was showering and the shampoo bottle slipped out of my hand and I cut myself across my nose. But nobody was believing that story.

Battle wounds
North Beach, San Francisco, [...]

“I’m really low on my scatological count here…I’m sorry I didn’t crack enough jokes or use enough [cuss words], but I’m sure people will forgive me. They can just attend one of my talks and get their cuss quota for the year. And if not, coding these web apps themselves involves a lot of swearing—a [...]

Dave finally found The Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character? quiz.
He told me he got around a 33 out of 43.
I said, “You read too much TechCrunch.”
[Small observations after the jump.]

This is actually another one of my infamous PHP job postings. But because the people of CNET are so cool, I thought I’d preface it with a couple of CNET stories first.
(I honestly don’t know if I should blog this. I have a standing invite to visit CNET networks next week and, knowing

Flights of fancy
somewhere over the Eastern United States
Leica M8, Cosina-Voigtländer NOKTON 35mm F1.2 Aspherical
1/90sec, iso 320, 35mm (47mm)

My tweets make no sense.
This is why nobody follows me and even my friends have turned off updates.
I just can’t seem to explain my experiences in 140 characters. Maybe I should have titled this blog “The Circumlocution.” Oh [...]

Like last year and the year before…

Text reads: Ahoy me mateys and buxom wenches!
The day ’tis ripe fer Talk Like A Pirate.
Ye be talkin’ like a pirate or ye be a scurvy bilge rat!
Arrrrrrr!
—The Dread Pirate Terry

I think the reason I love Pirate Day so much is that I had a horrible speech impediment in [...]

Weird and unfair
Somewher in ATL, Atlanta, Georgia
Nikon D200, Nikon 85mm f/1.4D
1/60sec @ f/1.4, iso 180, 85mm (127m)

I didn’t take this photo, though it is one of three such shots of the same thing on my memory card. The camera was in my luggage at the time so I can only guess that this photo was [...]

Definitely the most fun feed item. It’s like live daytime soaps.

First, Yahoo! Mash is up. It used to be called Yahoo! Mosh, but since Nokia has a beta product called Mosh, they changed it.
Surprisingly they kept “Pulse” which is direct conflict with Plaxo Pulse.
Go figure.
Speaking of Pulse, feeds, and other things… [after the jump]