Category Archives: Personal

Possibly not interesting if you don’t know me personally, and then, even.

Facebook is not a social network

At approximately 12:30 a.m. last night I locked myself out of my apartment.

How to Learn to Program in 2010

This is a response to a friend, Nate Dern, a smart guy who wants to learn to program but doesn’t know where to start. Spoiler alert: I rant for a while and then briefly answer his question at the very end. Here’s what worked for me: I was born in 1980 to parents who were

Working vs. writing about work

I’m currently working on a web application for people who want to post a list of upcoming events on their websites. People like the performers I hang around a lot. I spent a few hours working on it yesterday, and for all that time I basically only improved the login page. It’s frustrating. To be

Windows is still terrible

My brother got me an Eee PC mini notebook computer for Christmas. I want to say right off the bat that I’m very grateful for the gift: it will be useful for testing web sites on Windows as well as allowing me to run Adventure Game Studio. What follows is more a complaint about what