Tara asked me to try to do some guest posting. As she gets pulled into conferences and other community catalyst (it’s her title!) type tasks, it’s nice to have some blog posts “in reserve”. I decided to do a small and very basic series on website optimization. You can find the first post here and […]

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This post is incredibly nerdy. Just putting that out there up front.
Here’s my vimrc file.
Here’s what it looks like in OS X terminal with white text on black.

Here’s some of the things I’ve customized that have proven useful in my workflow:

,t (that’s comma-t) for a new tab; ,< for moving to the previous tab, and […]

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Here, we sit down together with PhotoBooth to get a cat’s first take on the 3 Presidential frontrunners. Politicians call this a focus group and it is a real and totally serious thing ok?

Since this is very serious, I have decided to encapsulate the responses for you in LiveJournal style.

We start by getting comfy […]

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My friend Jay IMs me a lot with weird movie titles he finds browsing Netflix’s new releases feed. They’re always interesting and sometimes the titles make you want to watch out of sheer potential for hilarity.
Of course, actually watching a terrible movie and making it funny is a tough process, but I think Jay’s got […]

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Well, it’s taken a while to set up, but I’ve got WordPress running now on this new hosting, a Xen Virtual Machine running at slicehost. The backing engine is nginx with FastCGI and PHP. A fun tech experience to set up and one I’ll blog about soon. Also, lots of other things to do: add some […]

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