Least favorite rhyme of all time.
@anildash I'm experiencing the same kind of thing with M.I.A. Which is .. a little bit the same?
Awful news out of Edinburgh today. Hugs and best wishes to everyone. Be well.
Least favorite rhyme of all time.
Just paid for lunch with Paypal. Easy. Sure hope they never randomly withhold restaurant takings.
Art of Knightmare: all the original dungeon room paintings from the early series. So cool. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/david-rowe-s-art-of-knightmare
What's an awesome, downloadable, relatively-liberally-licensed movie with great 5.1 sound?
Obama announces toothless, cowardly NSA reforms with no meaningful changes: http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/17/22338817-obama-seeks-balance-with-new-nsa-reforms
@gnuwilliam Will do. The page is a little wide - but it's a great piece of work. Thank you for it. @danlyke
I've been wanting this for a while. JavaScript, the Right Way: http://jstherightway.org/ (Doesn't seem to do HTML/CSS quite the right way.)
Excited to have a normal day where I go into the office. Sometimes a little structure can be like a welcome embrace.
@C_LosRun Sometimes I want http://www.phptherightway.com/ to hug me while I rock myself to sleep.
Booth babes don't work; it's better to get in people with knowledge and experience. Shocker. http://io9.com/scientific-evidence-that-booth-babes-dont-sell-product-1502478423
Yo dawg, I heard you like webkit ... https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js
@tef You're right. The NSA is counter to everything America *says* it stands for.
Bruce Schneier had to brief a branch of government on a government agency today:
This morning I spent an hour in a closed room with six Members of Congress: Rep. Logfren, Rep. Sensenbrenner, Rep. Scott, Rep. Goodlate, Rep Thompson, and Rep. Amash. No staffers, no public: just them. Lofgren asked me to brief her and a few Representatives on the NSA. She said that the NSA wasn't forthcoming about their activities, and they wanted me -- as someone with access to the Snowden documents -- to explain to them what the NSA was doing. Of course I'm not going to give details on the meeting, except to say that it was candid and interesting. And that it's extremely freaky that Congress has such a difficult time getting information out of the NSA that they have to ask me. I really want oversight to work better in this country.
If there's this level of government oversight on the NSA - i.e., practically none - and if the NSA is actively spying on government, which seems likely, it's fair to describe them as a superlegal organization. They're effectively above the law, above the government, and above democracy. All in the name of security. Is this the kind of agency that should exist in a country whose stated principles all relate to representative democracy and individual freedom?
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Looking for an experienced contract web developer (PHP, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3) in Austin / San Antonio. No agencies. ben@latakoo.com
@micho It's t-shirt weather right now, but the temperature is supposed to divebomb this weekend, sadly :(
@micho Wait, you probably know this already. I wouldn't bet on the warmth lasting though.
@micho All of them ;) Wear layers! It's warm here now but can turn chilly very quickly. Lots of microclimates.
Just got an invitation for the first private industry event I ever went to, a multimedia show in Cannes, France. I was 15; my mother snuck me in. She helped me learn to program, ran a computer club so I could have exposure to high-end PCs and Macs when we couldn't have one ourselves. I owe her my career, and so much more. I'm sitting 5 minutes away from her hospital ward. There aren't enough hugs, there isn't enough time, I can never do enough. I aim to pay it forward; when I have a family, I want to show them the love, the support and the encouragement that she has always shown me.
Working from the Inner Sunset today. Still think I'd like to live here at some point. Great neighborhood.
Every moment is a gift. That's not the start of a trite Hallmark-ism; it's just a fact.
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