Punderings

@monkchips 77AgencyLondon’s recent tweet says it all: “How social media can resurrect your brand’s reputation”… or not.

@ndw Lesson to world: always sanitize inputs. You never know what someone else will think that punctuation means otherwise.

@ndw Funny, I think #twhirl displayed ’s incorrectly in it’s pop-up, but correctly in the main stream window

@jimjag Amen, brother! I keep thinking ASF should take more leadership in defining the conversation somehow. Oh, to find time…

@gdaniels liberate liberate liberate http://tinyurl.com/dfwo7a

RT @FoodWriterDiary: I’d love your opinion of Spanish food in US http://tinyurl.com/d8ogpf and @sgala post (in Spanish) were simultaneous

/me questions if small batches of stock options are really worth it given how annoying US taxes are to do.

RT @zzqa: Greasemonkey un-tinys URLs inline: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40582 First compelling reason I’ve seen to install it.

@alberttwong I’ll pay the first 29.95 for their convenience – before, had gotten rebate city paying for everything else. Oops. kthxbye!

Ah, forgot how evil TurboTax is. State downloads on Basic version are charged separately: $40 – waaaay more than I remember.

Yes, it’s almost that time of year, so I’m sitting on the porch blogging away. Looking forward to doing more of it soon now that it’s spring, and the sun is up so long.

I saw an old friend this morning after my morning cappuccino and coding at my favorite coffee shop, Peet’s in Lexington. It was one of those odd moments of complete and happy surprise, since while we email regularly, I really didn’t expect to see him in downtown Lexington, just sitting on a park bench. In any case, he reminded me that I should blog more, and not just about that Apache stuff. So here you go. I will say I’m looking forward to catching up with old friends in the next two weekends, since I think some plans will be coming together nicely.

Hey! If anyone has good links for Patriot’s Day events this year, email them or post them here. I really want to get a good calendar of what’s happening when, since it’s one of my favorite holidays of the year. I’ll drop one excellent link here – if you want to know what actually happened back then, read Boston 1775, a blog by J.L. Bell, who has great commentary as well as links to original source material from the time of the revolution.

In other news, I’m ashamed to say I’m drinking instant coffee with my stroopkoeken. It’s one of those guilty pleasures – I love the Idee Kaffee instant coffee packets that I brought home from Amsterdam last month. Please don’t tell Janice or the staff at Peet’s I’m drinking anything but their bar drinks or my whole bean Maj. Dickason’s I get each week.

So strip (your styles) already!

Read the background of CSS Naked Day. More importantly, try to imagine what the world looks like to other people – perhaps people who don’t or can’t see the world as you do.

Best of luck to Shane, a Mass. Maritime graduate and crewmember on the US-flag ship that was recently captured by pirates. Luckily, the latest reports show the crew was able to recapture the ship from the pirates themselves.

It’s hard to remember there’s still large-scale piracy in the world. It’s also hard to remember how dumb pirates can be. Taking a US-flag ship? Not a wise idea in any case.

The odd thing about all these news articles from today is that they’re all true. These are strange days we live in.

• IBM is planning to buy Sun. We really need a list of good blue sunlight jokes now.
• The Boston Globe is close to closing. Boston as a one-newspaper town? Eeek!
• Baby formula includes rocket fuel. And not the good kind. What the heck is up with tainted food the past year or so? (Note that the CDC study doesn’t directly link this to baby risks yet.)
• Iowa legalizes same-sex marriage. I was proud of MA’s staunch equal rights when they did it; not surprised at CA (although overruled); and CT is, well, just there. But Iowa? Weird.

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do.
I’m half crazy all for the love of you.
It won’t be a stylish marriage, I can’t afford a carriage.
But you’ll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.

With Google’s new CADIE technology improving search results even more today, I’m surprised that more people haven’t figured out there are now new ways to improve your search results. For example, I don’t even need to mention names to get more search hits, since it’s obvious who CADIE might want to meet.

More importantly: I hope to update my commenting system to take advantage of Autopilot so that I can keep the conversation going with all of my readers.

Separately, Opera’s new Face Gestures is worth a second look.