Fifteen Minutes Of Forever
Well, that certainly took off, didn’t it? I’ve had some pretty mixed feelings this week; putting a ton of time and effort into a startup that doesn’t take off and then seeing a tiny little side project...
View ArticleGenuflecting To Fools
Guys guys great news: it turns out that panicky superstitious people who deliberately misinterpret their shallow understanding of an incredibly narrow slice of a foreign culture they’re otherwise...
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How Does Anyone Work In These Conditions
A little while ago, the espresso machine in our office broke down. This doomsday scenario is, and I say this without the least bit of hyperbole, the most catastrophically dire situation that can exist...
View ArticleWhat Better Place Than Here, What Better Time Than Now
I was in an Ikea last weekend, when their background music system started playing Rage Against The Machine. I was actually paralyzed for a moment. I found myself looking around, thinking “Am… Am I just...
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Architecture For Loners
This has been sitting around in the drafts folder for a while. I’m not sure why I wanted to finish it off tonight, but I want to get all these half-finished posts done. This seemed like a good way to...
View ArticlePractical Orthodonty
My dentist expressed some concern today that when he pokes my gums with a piece of sharp metal, they’re prone to bleeding. My observation that almost every part of me has that quality was not...
View ArticleInsecurity Theatre
Your new password must contain a mix of: uppercase letters lowercase letters numbers symbols symbols that are also numbers illuminati symbols hobo signs occult symbols (not illuminati) old girlfriend’s...
View ArticleA Beautiful, Momentary Friendship
For about ten minutes this morning I was in a beautiful relationship. I bike to work in the morning, and I’m pretty aggressive about it. I’m one of the scofflaw cyclists people like to complain about...
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Rogue Cryptocurrency Bootstrapping Robots
I tried to explain to my daughter why I’d had a strange day. “Why was it strange?” “Well… There’s a thing called a cryptocurrency. ‘Currency’ is another word for money; a cryptocurrency is a special...
View ArticleGo Home Yosemite You Are Drunk
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View ArticleOpaque Symbology
A collection of highway traffic signage unused pending an economical symbolic representation: Warning: Ornery Local Stereotype Completely Unremarkable Natural Phenomenon: 2 KM Something Will Happen And...
View ArticleCouch Gags Eternal
it rules that the simpsons is going to be on tv until every last one of its voice actors is dead — imogen binnie (@iphisol) September 1, 2015 There are only two of us left. The scripts and pictures...
View ArticleFailure Modes Of Novel Terminology
Somehow this has sat in my drafts folder for almost a year. At some point late in his second year, in that magical time when toilet training can be kind of touch and go but barreling around the house...
View ArticleThe Bourne Aesthetic
“The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to...
View ArticleThe Thousand Year Roadmap
I made this presentation at Seneca’s FSOSS a few weeks ago; some of these ideas have been rattling around in my brain for a while, but it was the first time I’d even run through it. I was thoroughly...
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Barbiephonic (redux)
I have a funny story about the recent Hello Barbie networked-device security failure. This is doubly a repost – it started its current incarnation as a twitter rant, and longtime readers may remember...
View ArticleDevelopers Are The New Mainframes
This is another one of those rambling braindump posts. I may come back for some fierce editing later, but in the meantime, here’s some light weekend lunacy. Good luck getting through it. I believe in...
View ArticleBrought To You By The Letter U
Being a global organization, Mozilla employees periodically send out all-hands emails notifying people of upcoming regional holidays. With Labour Day coming up in Canada, this was my contribution to...
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Pageant Knight
On September 17th, DC “celebrated” what they called “Batman Day”. I do not deploy scare quotes lightly, so let me get this out of the way: Batman is boring. Batman qua Batman as a hero, as a story and...
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The Scope Of The Possible
This is a rough draft; I haven’t given it much in the way of polish, and it kind of just trails off. But a friend of mine asked me what I think web browsers look like in 2025 and I promised I’d let...
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