Quick note… personally, I’m coming to see that good programmers need also have some measure of designer in them. While there is a sense of art in the constructs of the code, tonight I’m talking on a purely visual level.

Most of the time, my little hacks are command line apps, without much flash. But lately [...]

Note to Emily — if you’re reading this early, we’ll be calling you tomorrow to wrapup — so avoid the spoilers

So Monday was my 23rd birthday and today was the celebration.

Something was clearly up with Mari and Patrick — I was to keep this afternoon free to do… something…, and after Lindy on [...]

The sun came out this morning after pouring yesterday and I found it fitting.

I woke up this morning, early, for the first time in a week, to get in early, to skip lunch, to leave early, to buy Obama/Biden buttons from the SF street vendor outside the BART, to vote, to get food and to [...]

Okay, was going to blog about Seattle, but the past hour and a half has to be put down first:

So I landed in Boston and caught the last T out from the Airport (win!) met with the Green Line over to the Red (win!)… and then watched the last T to Kendall Square leave (fail)

I’m [...]

Never flown first class before. I see the appeal.

Am writing a substantive blog on the plane. Have this weird feeling of “Aw, adventure over” and “Yay new adventure” at the same time.

Pictures, including those of the Boston Tea Party, are now up on flickr….

Right here

Meanwhile, I have a new place to live (pretty sure) in North Berkeley! I am building a server so as to retire my current one and reduce the number of boxes I have… and life continues.

Also — Wordpress 2.5 == w00t.

And PicLens [...]

Sidebar: Site updated for speed — you’ll notice the networks link on the right now, as that will connect you to my pages faster than trying to load some of them in.

My thoughts on standard nightclubs:

I’ve never been a fan. Maybe I’ve never been to a good one. Over time it’s become less of the [...]

Are up:

You can find them here.

I also ordered myself 14 prints, of photos new and old, off Flickr to hang on my wall.

Woot!

…Tell me your own politik

It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten fired up about politics.

Aside from local skirmishes here and there, such as the tree sitters, I haven’t really given a damn since 2004. Even 2006 and the Dems winning back Congress was sort-of nice-but-not-interesting.

I’ve become complacent in being a Berkeley moderate. Which is [...]

So my little project while I’m bored at home is PumaCreed — a poorman’s Google MapReduce. (astute hunter-types will notice the anagram name)

I’ve been toying with the idea for the past few days since I got inspired by the MapReduce chapter in Beautiful Code. Mostly it’s a cute little project that’s trendy and scratches an [...]