Tag Archives: Rants

Uh, how?

By Josh | Published: October 20, 2008
Sure, I know how to do this, but would my Mom?
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When Lawyers Attack

By Josh | Published: May 23, 2008
In an earlier draft I was going to put some witty joke in here about lawyers being out of control. I finally came to my senses — obvious jokes aren’t jokes at all, they’re just annoying. Now, if only I had an intro to put here that I didn’t think was stupid: You shall, in [...]
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Marketing Genius

By Josh | Published: April 22, 2008
Whoever sold this ad is a marketing genius. I mean honestly — if you were selling cookbooks, would you have realized you need to get on SourceForge? No, you wouldn’t have. You know why? I’ll tell you — you’re an idiot. Meddling amateurs like you or me would have been wasting our advertising budget on Food [...]
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Uh…click what?

By Josh | Published: September 1, 2007
Having trouble clicking? Try clicking instead:
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Same shit, different language?

By Josh | Published: February 21, 2006
I like PHP. I also like Ruby on Rails. So, it naturally follows that I would also like Rails ported to PHP, right? Well, maybe — but I’m not sure I’ve seen a good example of this.1 Here’s a totally made-up example (in Ruby): class RockStar < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :roadies has_many :groupies end {: lang=ruby [...]
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Mac Indie Software Pet Peeves

By Josh | Published: December 28, 2005
This applies to software distributed on compressed disk images, which includes most indie software. It excludes software distributed on disk images that are then compressed, only because this annoying behavior is thankfully uncommon. I’m talking here about things that I see frequently. {: .itemized } Finder’s toolbar is hidden The most convenient access to the [...]
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Crash Course

By Josh | Published: December 27, 2005
It snowed here Sunday evening, and since we spend Christmas morning with L’s parents and the evening with mine, we had to drive through it. It wasn’t a note-worthy drive because it was the first snow — that happened weeks ago. It wasn’t snowing especially hard, the roads weren’t glassed over with ice, and you could [...]
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When you're in a hole…

By Josh | Published: November 15, 2005
It’s a simple rule, really — when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. It isn’t even a new one really (except to Sony apparently). It’s one thing (albeit an incredibly stupid one) to use a buggy rootkit in your DRM; it’s another entirely to tell the SysInternals guys how Windows really works in [...]
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Simple Pleasures

By Josh | Published: July 8, 2005
There’s sort of a weekend tradition in L’s family; doing a crossword puzzle. They never did anything for me growing up, but now staring blankly at the WSJ crossword puzzle is something I could get used to. The thing is, the Online Journal’s version of the puzzle is a Java applet, which just isn’t the [...]
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PowerBook-ing

By Josh | Published: May 25, 2005
I use my PowerBook everywhere — including at work, where I am provided a perfectly functional Windows box to work on. One of the ongoing concerns of anyone who works similarly is security; how do you minimize the damage if some jerk swipes your computer? So, having presented the background material, my pet-peeve every time [...]
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