Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

Maven Eclipse Plugin 0.10 is Better

Friday, March 5th, 2010

I’ve been using the maven eclipse plugin m2eclipse for a long while now and recently upgraded a couple of my eclipses to the 0.10 version. All told, it’s better than the previous version of m2eclipse.
Of course as I write this, I try to set up another eclipse instance and it fails to load a [...]

Timothy Treadwell a Perfect Liberal

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Via

Timothy Treadwell loved bears. In the name of loving them, with a stalwart sense of the innate sanctity of his mission, he continuously abused them for thirteen years. Time and again from 1989 until 2003 he invaded their territory — startling them, scaring them, angering them. Interrupting their hunting, their mating, [...]

Test post

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Argh, ‘automated upgrade’ my ass. I hope my blog still works.

STAPLES CENTER parking

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Awesome parking at the basketball game.

Queen of the road

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

And baby

NY Times 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Amen to all 100. I don’t care who you are, I didn’t come for the color, I can eat at home for 1/30th the cost and get all the color and excitement I need.

Do not let anyone enter the restaurant without a warm greeting.
Do not make a singleton feel bad. Do not [...]

Obama’s Robot Smile

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

Water plant tour

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

A field trip to the water plant included some “big truck” time.

Data Trumps Guesses

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Jakob Nielson’s Alertbox has been one of the best sites on web usability for many, many years. A recent post does a nice job of showing just how pointless it is to argue in a meeting about what design is probably the best.
testing just 2 users per design reduced the probability of being wrong [...]

What is great blogging

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Last year Dave Weiner did a great job of defining what makes for good blogging. The criteria don’t just apply to blogging, but any writing in general.
People talking about things they know about, not just expressing opinions about things they are not experts in (nothing wrong with that, of course).
Of course, Joel Spolsky, who [...]