Flyover Country

“Shipping is a feature.”
— Attributed to Software Developers Everywhere

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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
— Hunter S. Thompson 1937-2005
The odd thing is that I was just thinking about this phrase yesterday, I never knew who coined it. Little did I know I’d see it splashed over a thousand weblogs 24 hours later.

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From NewDonkey today: Hillary Clinton has just given us all a textbook case of what it really means to “seize the center”: it does not mean “moving to the right,” it means moving to higher and stronger ground.

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I’ve been thinking about buying a Super Nintendo for a while, just so I could play Final Fantasy 3/VI. Yesterday, though, I was at a Best Buy in Bellevue where I ran into a copy of Final Fantasy Anthology for Playstation that contains FF5 and FF6. I decided to put together this list to save [...]

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Mike Godwin (best known from the EFF) with Neal Stephenson: It has been the case for quite a while that the cultural left distrusted geeks and their works; the depiction of technical sorts in popular culture has been overwhelmingly negative for at least a generation now. More recently, the cultural right has apparently decided that [...]

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One thing that Chimp Tunes has taught me is that not everyone listens to Top 40 drivel. Say, for example, like the person who listened to Make it Big by Wham!

Let me be the first to say that I have no clue whatsoever about who these guys are, but I am [...]

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I fixed one more little bug in Lullabye earlier today. It would prevent alarms from working after Lullabye had been used. The problem that caused it was that iTunes would not quit before the computer went to sleep, which would cause some issues with iRooster upon wake-up. I feel that I’m almost ready to release [...]

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Forget the Son of God… What Would Evil Spock Do? (WWESD)

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Couple simple things:
1. I’m getting set to release iRooster 2.1 Beta 3 or RC 1. I need to try and repro a couple bugs that have been posted on the forum, and then I’ll evaluate it from there.
2. I had my best month ever for sales with iRooster; I’m definitely not [...]

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