Question: is there ever a case where “utilize” is more appropriate than “use”?
Related: See word lists.
Matinee movie! Leatherheads.
Watching 60 Minutes on TiVo. Nice to see Al Gore has upgraded to Leopard.
How Software Is Built Interview
A few weeks ago I got the opportunity to do a phone interview with Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell who are doing a series of interviews regarding How Software Is Built. The interview was a lot of fun and really hit around the general theme of how open source is changing the way software is created. It is long, but I think it came out pretty well.
(Update 2024): The original site for this interview no longer exists but you can still read it via Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
- Feeling fairly stupid having trouble migrating to WP 2.5 built-in avatar support and ditching Gravatar plugin. Ugh.
- Avatar success! Magic is:
<?php echo get_avatar($comment, '50'); ?>and it does everything, entire IMG tag. - I cannot even begin to express how much I love the Search Regex WP plugin. It has saved me hours!
- A little overwhelmed by how much cleanup work I need to do on my blog. Not WP 2.5 related, just years of messy junk.
- Changed my whole permalink structure and have done everything I can to make it right. Wondering how much of a hit I’ll take from Google.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Getting tired of the more and more elaborate April Fools things from various Internet sites. Perhaps I’m being lame.
Heading to The Bulldog for early ruby.mn fun.
Seems the USB hub in one of my Dell monitors is dead. 1 hour of my life wasted.
Watching Clifford Stoll’s TED video. Dude seems totally insane.