Quoted: I recently read jPod:amazon:0747585873 the book by Douglas Coupland. Its a pretty good book, kind of weird - perhaps Quirky is a good description. As a programmer in the video game industry, its kind of required reading It turns our that CBC in Canada turned this into a TV Show) This story works much better as a TV show!

Quoted: I tracked down a performance issue in my code today that was pretty subtle. I have a table with a varchar column that contains a number, mainly for size reasons. This column has an index all to itself, so queries using the column should be pretty snappy, but they weren't. My code went something like this: find(:all, :conditions => "my_col

Quoted: As far as I can tell, Facebook is always broken. Ok, they do seem to struggle on serving users, but a lot of functionality breaks on Facebook every day. I've seen no press on this, I guess the vultures are all circling around Twitter. Here's some examples over the last 2 months: Today - The category selection tabs in the Application directory broke.

Quoted: In the Facebook Developer Application, the act of deleting an application does have a confirmation page, but it isn't very clear on what application is being deleted - there is the name of the application, but not the picture or icon. And the delete works even if you have thousands of users. Ask me how I found this out, I dare you!

Quoted: Many would say yes, but Tom Standage would beg to differ in his book The Victorian Internet Mr Standage tells the story of the people who created the telegraph system starting at the end of the 18th century, and leading to Samuel Morse and the first electric system in the US. He goes into the social aspects of suddenly being able to be in touch

Quoted: One of the interesting things about Facebook is that, of the interesting pages on Facebook, everyone sees a different version of that page. Search is clearly filtered to show stuff that is more relevant to you first. Your 'facebook' page has stuff filtered out depending on what Facebook thinks is interesting to you (with input from the tiny 'Preferences'

1. “Quick! Someone cast Raise Dead!”
2. “Don’t worry – he’s just playtesting the Astral Plane for the next edition.”
3. “He’s gone the way of Star Frontiers.”
4. “Analysts warn of a free-fall in Mountain Dew futures.”
5. “In the next town, you meet a stranger named Barry Bygax.”
6. “Now who will lead our young people to Satan?”
7. “With his last breath, he cursed the name of Marlon Wayans.”
8. “I wonder how they’ll divide up his XP.”
9. “Pallbearers, make a Bend Bars/Lift Gates roll.”
10. "At least he didn't live to see Disney's Greyhawk On Ice."
11. “Lorraine Williams is behind this somehow, I just know it.”
12. “The worlds of adventure gaming, fantasy fandom, and van painting will never be the same.”
13. “When I heard, I cried 2d10 tears.”
14. “Is there anything in the will about electrum?”
15. “Heart condition? Wow, I always thought it’d be owlbears that got him.”
16. “Suddenly, nobody in Heaven wants to hang out with Marilyn Monroe on Friday night.”

Quoted: I've been working on a project for a while. The site has been live for a month or so, and seems to be stable. If you visit my site to read the posts, you may have noticed the top section of the left sidebar has been showing a widget from my new site VideoSlush:http://videoslush.com VideoSlush:http://videoslush.com is a trading game for YouTube videos.