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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...

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WFNX 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...

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EAT · 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...

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Please 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...

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Interviewing 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...

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Interviewing 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...

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SCOTUS, 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,...

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Software 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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