A private invitation
From someone I don’t know
Arrived in my in box today
I didn’t read it though.
Cuz I was busy checking out
Hot tips on penny stocks
I’d gotten from three strangers
Opportunity knocks!
I thought I’d spend the riches
That would soon come rolling in
On a logo for my company,
And Rolexes for my kin,
Down payments on a home or two
With [...]

Looking after number one–
The more I work, the more gets done.
…the more I do, the more he asks–
I’ll add it to my list of tasks.
My list consists of four main parts:
With urgent tasks is where it starts–
Important first, and then less so.
Below is where non-urgents go.
Non-urgent, but important task?
It’s in the section next to last.
And [...]

There once was a man named Antone,
Who, to write poems, was known.
Subscribe to my feed,
To my poems read,
And please keep it down when you groan.
Okay, so the first poem in Poeticalizationism doesn’t live up to the subtitle: “Do you believe in living beautifully?” My intention is to post new poems here nearly every day. With [...]

What do you get when a programmer works at home with a small child? An homage to Slashdot, sung to the tune of the cartoon Caillou:
I’m just a karma whore
Each day I earn some more
Not quite sure what it’s for
Slashdot
So many things to write
All day and every night
My point of view’s right
On Slashdot
Defending downloaders
And guys [...]

Summary: House of Flying Daggers is eye candy best viewed with one’s brain turned off. It had potential–some interesting plot twists, entertaining martial arts action, and rich, beautiful colors throughout–but was ultimately too completely divorced from reality to even approach the level of a movie like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
WARNING: Some spoilers follow
A quick comparison [...]

Anwar got sent home tonight. Anthony didn’t. Something is definitely busted. Although Bo has divided my loyalty to Anwar somewhat, I’d have to say that as a musician and a person (as far as I can tell from watching the show), Anwar is my favorite of this year.
Oh well, he may not have won the [...]

Last night, I did a few experiments taking pictures with a 15 second exposure using the Canon PowerShot A75 that my dad gave my wife and I for Christmas. Here are two of the resulting photos.
This is a view of my neighboor’s yard that’s visible through my living room window, and is the scene [...]

“Five Nines” of up-time for a system isn’t so hard to achieve as long as you don’t define it as 99.999% availability. Here’s a little comic to illustrate:

“Our profits are growing exponentially!” Sounds great, right? Not necessarily. Here’s a little one frame comic I drew to show how exponential profit growth can actually be a bad thing.

Today, let’s talk a little about how to create a color scheme for your website. In the old days, web designers had a palette of 256 “web safe” colors to choose from. These were the colors that wouldn’t get dithered on a computer whose display supported only 256 colors at a time. It was important, [...]