My first month with the Grado Prestige SR60i's
The creepy mustache that is Jesse Thorn, of Put This On (the thinking man's style blog) published a bit about good headphones back on February 16th. When you think style blogging, you probably don't...
View ArticleWFNX is dead, long live WFNX
Good radio leaves me remembering the past fondly, and these last few weeks with WFNX have been good radio. WFNX, a local Boston independent radio station, was sold to Clear Channel in June and most of...
View ArticleEAT · MOAR · F.U.D.
The tone of the Chick-Fil-A discussion has (of course) completely derailed into demagoguery (I'm not linking the event directly because I legitimately think they're missing the point). Unsurprising; I...
View ArticlePlease don't be a donkus with your code
First, some background… About two weeks ago, Dan Langille sent me a short email. He just wanted to to let me know that he was about to post a bit on his personal blog about mod_watch, and that he was...
View ArticleInterviewing pro-tip: your time has value
Here's something I've learned from having been on both sides of an interview: Don't waste the time you're spending on the interview Take every interview seriously, even if it's just the sort of...
View ArticleInterviewing pro-tip: the Candidate is not the enemy
Anyone who has ever interviewed anyone for an open req. has experienced a Candidate bombing the interview for one reason or another1, and we've certainly all bombed an interview. Now, I don't know shit...
View ArticleSCOTUS, Proposition 8, and DOMA
I really tried to avoid saying anything about this today. And (to their credit) my friends tend to agree with me, at least in regards to what I'm about to say so I didn't think I needed to say it. So,...
View ArticleSoftware trends that puzzle me: today, it's 'one-line installations'
Maybe my UNIX neckbeard is showing, but the trend of one-line installations confuses me. I guess it's not fundamentally different than installing whatever random packages you found from some no-name...
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