Easy to die (3) Feb 1, 2008
Sometimes it frightens me how easy it is to die.  I'm not talking about death by dangerous things like skydiving or mountain climbing, or even death by somewhat normal things like car accidents or wildlife encounters while camping.  I'm talking about everyday things like eating a meal or plugging in an electrical cord.  If a piece of food gets lodged in my throat when I'm eating alone, there's a pretty good chance I could die.  If my finger touches one of the metal prongs of an electrical cord as I'm plugging it in, I could easily die.  I never think twice about flying in a plane or walking near the edge of a rocky cliff, but doing certain simple everyday things makes me nervous. #psychology
Twitter downtime solution Feb 1, 2008
Everybody complains about Twitter's constant downtime problems.  It was down during the Macworld keynote address.  It was down this past weekend (I think).  As a non-user of the service, the one thing I always read about Twitter is its constant downtime issues and its scalability woes. 

I have a pretty simple solution:  STOP USING TWITTER.  For reasons still unknown to me, many people have adopted Twitter as one of their top three must-haves, right after email and RSS feeds.  What with the growing number of other solutions to the non-existent problem of keeping up to date with minute details of your friends' and acquaintances' daily lives, there are other boats in the ocean besides Twitter's (Jaiku and Pownce to name two).  And by rejecting their service, you'll be giving them the exact feedback they need and deserve:  Figure out how to scale up or host your service, and then look for users.  Don't gain a bunch of users and then scramble to figure out how to keep your website working.  If Digg can do it, if Flickr can do it, if del.icio.us can do it, then you can do it.  Jaiku would be my top choice because Google just bought it.  When was the last time Google had downtime problems? #technology
This site in IE (3) Feb 1, 2008
My apologies to anyone who uses Internet Explorer to view this website.  You might've noticed that it looked pretty ugly for a couple weeks, with things spread out unevenly across the page.  The problem is that I design my website to be viewed with Firefox, because that's the browser I use.  Firefox follows web design standards, Internet Explorer usually doesn't.  So everything looked fine in Firefox, but it looked awful in Internet Explorer.  I think I fixed it. #technology