One thing I like to do is make fires. It’s often considered a less socially-acceptable pastime than my other wood-destruction hobbies like writing and...
This summer marked 15 years since I first started blogging here, and I’m happier than ever that I’ve chosen to live so much of my life in this place, with all...
I don’t usually agree to participate in corporate promo videos, but Microsoft asked me to talk broadly about why writing software is still inspiring to me after...
While I’ve always liked doing a lot of my notes and writing with pen and ink, I’ve never been particularly well-versed in the latest innovations and trends in...
From this New York Times story on proper use of a semicolon in subway signage: David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer who taunted police and the press...
I would think there’s some money for unemployed writers in proofing the text of the Nigerian 419 scams. Given how they’re so incomprehensible right now, better...
I thought it might be nice to take some time to commend some personal websites that I enjoy. I put categories on them for the sake of simplicity. This is just...
Discussions about flexible straws, huh? Trivial? Absolutely. But what if there were, say, some larger point? What if I were pleased that my audience could...
Today marks three years (more or less) that I’ve been updating this site daily (more or less). It’s helped me make friends, learn lots of new things, improve as...
These are the things you must know: Deprecated is not the same word as depreciated. Formerly and formally are not interchangeable. Nobody knows how to spell....
Geeks are at their happiest when among those who understand them. One of the pleasant things about my job is being surrounded, to a certain degree, by geeks of...