game, game. repeat.

A government with easy access to all the public and private information of its people, that collects this information against their wishes, that makes them more vulnerable to harm in order to maintain their access, and then lies in order to cover up their…

Get the Swiss milk chocolate milk shake from Fentons.

While the war rages on for software engineers, I can’t help wondering when UX, interaction designers, and product managers are going to have their turn.

When a software company is searching for a new CTO or VP of Engineering, they tend to look for either a Chief of Surgery or a Head Coach.

When I started work on DishFu.com (one of my code playgrounds…its something like Yelp) a couple years ago I wanted to support natural language search so that, instead of clicking lots of checkboxes to search for the best burrito in my zip code, I could ju…

For months I struggled with frequent audio dropouts while connecting to stereo through my Airport Express from my Mac laptop.

While developing a Rails apps using PostgreSQL (unlike MySQL) I often run out of db connections and see errors like and when I do, my Rails app stops working.

I keep my music and my photos on a server at home.

They’re both good, but Last.fm wins.

I looked around for an easier way to post an internal IP to DynDNS, but I didn’t find one.

Sometimes you need to know your Windows machine’s IP.

There’s more than way to go about it, but I prefer using the open source ClamAV and a script that runs to scan each email as it comes in.

I would like my Facebook Connect app to publish stories to my users’ Facebook news stream.

Rake tasks contained in a gem are not automatically available to a rails app that requires the gem.

I too ran into some trouble before discovering that my beloved AuthLogic is validating my email field.

I’m going to run out of hard drive space at some point.

I’m going to run out of hard drive space at some point.

Want more traffic from your friendly neighborhood search engine to your site?

The meat falls off the bone.

Sneha rolls buffet style, all you can eat.

Why should wine get all the good grapes?

Try the Chicken Pizza and order a large so you can take some home.

The Refuge in San Carlos, CA makes their pastrami in-house and its amazing.

The mess of cables behind your computer sure doesn’t look safe.

Ziploc freezer bags help keep your cables untangled and easy to sort through.

There comes a time in every professional’s career when they need a graph.

Many usability professionals focus on, well, usability.

If you’re tired of your keychain poking holes in your pockets you may want to consider investing in some protection.

In the ’80s all the cool executive-type people carried around small tape recorders for capturing ideas any time they had them.

WHAT IF you could subscribe to your favorite websites and automatically be sent any new articles they post instead of checking back a couple times a day or week to see if there is anything new?

While you were reading the post about how to ship a used book, you may have found yourself strangely compelled to hover your mouse over the cool, image hotspot mouseover hover caption thingies on the picture of shipping supplies.

So you sold your used book on Amazon, you’re basking in the glow of your success, and then it dawns on you that the buyer is expecting you to send them the book.

They do look good on your bookshelf, but are you really ever going to read them again?

Not knowing what to expect, I played Passage and found myself moved (not in the U-Haul sense, the other moved)…something no other video game has accomplished before or since.

You had me at hello.

It’s easy to run out of power outlets with all the must-have gadgets in our lives.

They won’t be serving these at the Ritz Carlton any time soon, but don’t let it’s commonplace appearance fool you.

Made–spring rolls–this weekend and they were good.

1 pound broccoli 0.5 cups avocado or grapeseed oil 0.5 cups water 1 teaspoon salt Boil broccoli in water for 10 minutes.

Makes any number of servings.

Makes about 12 servings. 5 pounds golden potatoes 1 package Philadelphia Cream Cheese 1 pint sour cream 0.5 cups milk 0.5 stick unsalted butter 3 medium size cloves of garlic 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon white pepper optional: horseradish sauce Peel potato…

There’s Hagen Daz, Dryers, and a whole lot of other companies making ice cream.

Makes about 8 servings. 3 leg-and-thighs of chicken 1.5 cups pearl barley 2 carrots 2 stalks of celery 0.5 white onion salt pepper Wash chicken.

This is old hat to California natives, but if you haven’t visited in say, the last 15 years, you may not have heard of In-N-Out.

It’s not as good as homemade but Michelangelo’s has had the same special for 5 years: linguini with baby clams, shrimp, and mussels; and it’s really good.

Makes 10 servings. 0.5 cups avocado or grapeseed oil 4 cloves garlic 1 large yellow onion 1.5 pounds lean ground beef or Impossible Burger 15 ounces tomato sauce 12 ounces tomato paste 1 bottle of red wine or 4 cups of Burgandy 1 tablespoon oregano 1 tabl…

My girlfriend introduced me to this joint last time we were in Malibu–I ordered a 3 piece fish and chips and Malibu Seafood gave me the biggest chunks of fried fish I’d ever seen.

Whenever I visit my family in the LA area I try to find my way to Billy’s in Glendale for an order of corned beef hashand an order of hash brown potatoes (with plenty of ketchup).

Bread Machine Variant Makes 1 loaf.

Hey everyone–I’m in the middle of reworking the site.