Monthly Archives: March 2007

tags, items, users – loose the joins – gain the freedom.

Long time readers of this blog will assert that I have no problem presenting an unpopular opinion, and/or sticking my foot in my mouth. Some times both at once! (“But wait… there’s more!”) So when N. Shah asks me how he should split his database (a tags table, items table, and users table) I say: [...]

Dear every site

With the hoops I had to jump through to make a darned account on your site to be able to do anything at all, even only for a moment… One might get the impression that you actually don’t want people to sign up and use your service.  What a horrendous chain of data entry, waiting, [...]

Actually… iTerm *and* negatives in speech :)

Marc – I did manage to get it behaving MOSTLY the way I want it to… I’ll post more on that later tonight or tomorrow ( hopefully ) Bon – you’re right I *did* mean that I wouldn’t have it any other way.  I consider English my 4th or 5th language behind things like bash, [...]

I give up on OSX’s terminal.app

Lets face it. If you rely on vim locally, vim remotely on non debian based systems, and vim remotely on Debian based systems. ESPECIALLY in an environment where you don’t get to put in your own .vimrc (such as when logged in as root, and other people log in as root as well.) You’re pretty [...]

In a fit of vanity…

I bought, for myself, demitrio.us and dem.itrio.us  How cool is that?!

Testing some video stuff. Heres a video of my dogs at the pond :)

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Whoa, talk about neglecting your weblog! Bad Form!

I know, I know, I’ve been silent for quite some time. Well Let me assure you that I’m quite all right! Are you less worried about me now? Oh good. (Yes I’m a cynical bastage sometimes.) So life has, as it tends to do, come at me pretty fast. I’ve left my previous employer, Ookles, [...]