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Lies We Tell Kids

Daniel — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:45:54 +0000

Paul Graham’s latest essay, Lies We Tell Kids, is long, insightful, and well-thought. I don’t agree with everything Mr. Graham writes, but I do try to read everything he writes. Whenever my muse decides to wake up from its long slumber, I hope to approach the craft much as Paul does.

Rhett Butler

Daniel — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:24:51 +0000

It occurs to me that re-introducing myself to Ruby on Rails (new shiny 2.0.2) after ~2 years in Siberia (VBScript, for $deity’s sake) and digging back into the legacy trenches of ColdFusion (in the past 2 months) might not be the smartest thing I’ve ever done. In fact, it’s downright stupid to taunt my inner developer, starved of grace and beauty for lo these many years. Like pouring out a glass of water in front of a man dying of thirst.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

(Which is a roundabout way of saying I’m loving every goddamn minute, poking things with sticks and regaining my Ruby-legs (I was sad that I couldn’t work in the glorious pun “sea-legs” until I realized that meant I’d actually be dealing with C. (shudder)(When you think about it, I’m practically writing Lisp, as it is))

Noodling

Daniel — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:11:08 +0000

Insofar as it describes my habitual train of thought, I might as well title this post “What [I] do every night, Pinky”. I am writing a bunch of patter just to get myself back in the pseudo-confessional habit.

You’re probably reading this through a feed reader, and $deity-bless you, because the theme blows visual Bronx cheers. I’ve been a bit busy since I shuffled my world-wide-webly possessions into its shiny new Solaris home. Perhaps this weekend.

I just noticed that I have to get the Markdown plugin installed. I coulda swore it was included by default. Lots of things to do. Lots of time to do it.