If I were a designer, maybe I could tell you exactly why the new at&t logo sucks. Since I’m not, I’ll just say that I think it looks stupid and leave it at that.

And then, depression set in…

This post on 43Folders reminded me of why sticking with David Allen’s GTD is oh so worth the effort. It’s not necessarily about getting more things done, but rather about how things get done – and being much less stressed about the process. Say it with me now; “Much…less…stressed.” Aaaah.

One of my more famous sayings has always been some form of “If you wait long enough, someone will do it for you.” Case in point. Validation in Ruby on Rails is awesome. Just add :validates_presence_of “title” in your model and you get a nice error message “Title is required” without doing any real work. Sometimes, however, it’s desirable to override that message with something a little nicer, say “Please enter a title for your new article.

Yes, those are my feet. And yes, that is really the carpet in the bowling alley.

I have read Jeremy Zawodny’s blog for quite a long time. He’s tight with Yahoo, knows really everything there is to know about MySQL, and is generally interesting. On the other hand, there’s his rant about Apple and iTunes, which starts out off the tracks and just gets worse. You can read it if you wish, but the gist is that he upgraded iTunes (on XP) and somehow the process missed some of his songs.

This post by Dave Winer in 1995 has always struck a chord with me. Probably because I make shitty software and it’s nice to hear that not only am I not alone, but I’m in the 100% majority. “Software is a process, it’s never finished, it’s always evolving. That’s its nature. We know our software sucks. But it’s shipping! Next time we’ll do better, but even then it will be shitty.

I have built dozens of web app administration areas which consist basically of a table/search/add interface. Adding the ability to sort the table by clicking on a column header is something I frequently leave out. Why? Because it’s a PITA. Jeremy recently pointed me to SortHelper, a simple Rails helper which makes implementing sortable tables just cake. Now I’ll need to find a different excuse.

“Before you decide that everyone knows something (or no one does), take a second to realize that you’re wrong.” – Seth Godin

Ozzy, on plans to write a musical… “being Ozzy Osbourne is great, but if I don’t sing about the fucking devil or bats or whatever, people don’t really want to know.” I still love the Ozzman.

“Wow. Saudi Arabia is like the Footloose town – times a million!” – American Dad

I’m used to having lovely syntax coloring in VIM using a terminal. Alas, when logging in to my Textdrive account it was not to be. It didn’t bother me enough to do anything about until just a few minutes ago. So. Put the following in .profile TERM=xterm-color; export TERM CLICOLOR=1; export CLICOLOR And make sure the following is in your .vimrc file… syn on Ooooh. Pretty.