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Last day at Optaros. New world…

erik — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:47:26 +0000

Last day at Optaros. New world awaits on Monday. Exciting times!

One of the most fascinating as…

erik — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:10:03 +0000

One of the most fascinating aspects of http://data.mint.com/ is that it’s public. CC companies have had similar data, but never shared it.

Postalicious still regularly p…

erik — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:51:24 +0000

Postalicious still regularly posting 500 Errors on my WordPress blog. Any alternatives for creating blog entries from del.icio.us feeds?

Insufficient focus on User Exp…

erik — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:49:41 +0000

Insufficient focus on User Experience and design cost Wasabe their company: http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint

So how do we vote ‘no’on this wiretap…

erik — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:28:13 +0000

So how do we vote ‘no’on this wiretapping proposal?

For more on why you want to vote ‘no’, see Wiretapping the Internet, by Bruce Schneier.

JavaScript in JavaScript for language ha…

erik — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:34:15 +0000

JavaScript in JavaScript for language hacking: “Zaphod 1.0 Released” Still need to look at the parser’s source to see how hackable it is.

Another reason not to expect p…

erik — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:57:22 +0000

Another reason not to expect privacy on Facebook http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/14/damning-zuckerberg-i.html

Gymkhana 3, pt.2 is awesome, but looks m…

erik — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:43:37 +0000

Gymkhana 3, pt.2 is awesome, but looks more like rally practice than previous shenanigans http://www.youtube.com/user/DCshoesFILM#p/u/0/4TshFWSsrn8

Corn industry hopes to rename …

erik — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:48:43 +0000

Corn industry hopes to rename High Fructose Corn Syrup to “corn sugar”. New name, same product to avoid. “Goodbye High Fructose Corn Syrup, Hello Corn Sugar (Signed, Corn Industry)“.

Dear Gran Turismo 5. Please pl…

erik — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:23:15 +0000

Dear Gran Turismo 5. Please please please please please include the Austin F1 track

I had started writing a JavaScript style…

erik — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:16:03 +0000

I had started writing a JavaScript style-guide conformance tool. Might not be needed now: http://code.google.com/p/closure-linter/

Note that I’m currently partial to running it like this:

gjslint.py --strict $filename | grep "^Line" | grep -v "Line too long"

New Firefox builds offer JavaScript pars…

erik — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:59:21 +0000

New Firefox builds offer JavaScript parse tree API: “An API for parsing JavaScript” Neat for tool devs. No word on whether you can modify/write to it.