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Plimpton & Hemingway
He keeps track of his daily progress—“so as not to kid myself”—on a large chart made out of the side of a cardboard packing case and set up against the wall under the nose of a mounted gazelle head. The numbers on the chart showing the daily output of words differ from 450, 575, 462,…
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WTF by the Numbers
Mitchell Scherr has done a statistical breakdown of what Marc Maron calls his listeners during the intro for WTF over the past 50 episodes. I’ve always really enjoyed hearing “What the fuckstables.” so any time I can see that in print, I’m happy…
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Moving Day
If anyone notices a significant speed increase on the site here, it’s because I’ve finally gotten around to moving it from a well meaning but poky VPS over at DreamHost to a shiny new supercharged account at WP Engine.
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Cleaning Up Unicode Cruft in WordPress
While helping someone with WordPress move earlier this week, I noticed a bunch of weird Unicode cruft (like ’ and –) in their posts and comments. Apparently, MySQL databases don’t like it when you switch their default character encoding. But different web hosts have different ways of doing things — so default character encodings can (and…
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CMD + Conquer
When I started over at WP Engine earlier this week, a brand new MacBook Air came into my possession. It’s very pretty and lightweight and I kind of love it more than any other computer I’ve ever owned. So much so that I made the decision to break with my normal tradition and keep this hot…
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Peeling a Whole Head of Garlic, Very Quickly
At first, I saw this and I was like: But then I did some Googling and saw that Real Simple suggested the same method and I was like:
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Lytro
Hello, Lytro. You’re a mighty handsome gentleman, aren’t you? One day, I will be able to justify purchasing you. Until then, I’ll just be hanging out over here. Staring longingly. *sigh*
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Goodbye, Betty Jean
Shit. I just found out that my grandma Betty passed away this morning and I am absolutely gutted. I knew this day was coming and I tried bracing myself for it, but the very second I heard the news, my heart started to ache. Knowing that I’ll never get to see her smile or share…
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Why I Prefer WP Super Cache
Even though W3 Total Cache seems to have become the more popular and robust option for WordPress caching, I’ve stuck by and continue to recommend WP Super Cache. Why? In a word: simplicity. Now I could write a big long entry on why simplicity trumps a crapton of options and flexibility, but I’d rather have a…
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CSS3 Hyphenation
Now that the most recent versions of Safari & Firefox support proper hyphenation via CSS3, I kind of want to implement it on my sites. But thanks to Microsoft Word, I also have some really strong feelings against auto-hyphenation. *sigh* What’s a nerd to do?