I think some people I know might find Sam Starbuck's experience useful. He has social anxiety but wanted to leave the house more often, so he developed methods to cause himself to do so.The idea …

Oh, one more thing -- Leonard & I distilled my ten best microblog entries from 2011: #captions error on TV yesterday: "We hold these trouts to be self evident" You know that moment when you …

Part of the pleasure of starting again is feeling the years and years of riding behind me -- the teenage bolting around like a lunatic and learning how to land on my feet, the years …

I enjoyed having the apartment to myself for a week while Leonard visited his blood family (why is it easier to clean when I have the house to myself? Why?!), but of course I also …

Yesterday I helped a bit with a Dreamwidth code tour. Every time Dreamwidth deploys a new update to the site, someone writes up explanations of what all the new bits are. Not just a summary …

I get a different kind of understanding, now, out of Paul Ford's "Cleaning My Room," ten years later. When I reread it, I flash back to my old messy apartment in Berkeley, where I sat …

I am on my couch in New York City. My Dutch colleague, who also works from home, is waiting with me on the conference call. We're waiting for the San Francisco folks to show up …

First contact isn't all fun and games. Ariel Blum is pushing thirty and doesn't have much to show for it. His computer programming skills are producing nothing but pony-themed video games for little girls. His …

From some recent explanations of software stuff to nontechnical folks: Suites like Windows/IIS or LAMP go together the way everything at IKEA matches anything else you buy at IKEA. Source control is like a wiki. …

The song in my head right now is Pete Seeger's version of "Business" (hear a sample at Smithsonian Folkways). It's from an English translation of a French poem by Guillevic -- I should look up …