Author Archives: timmfin


I hate chain email, but this takes the cake

I normally don’t talk politics, but an email I just received is utterly horrible and completely unacceptable. You can find the text of that email at this blog.
There have been way more than 13 tragic events in the past 50 years, and cleverly editing the list to be exclusively Islamic and male does not mean […]

Massachusetts Comcast channels

Comcast certainly doesn’t make it very easy to figure out what service you need to get the channels you want, so I took some time today to figure that out. After a bit of screen-scraping, shell scripting, and a phone call here is all the info. Note that these packages are cumulative so buying a more expensive plan gets you all of the above channels. Also you might be able to get a better deal if you sign up for these packages as a new customer.

Hope this helps someone else!

The engagement story…

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A look back at our very (very!) memorable engagement weekend. It’s long, so if you are lazy you can go directly to the summary and pictures.

We started our Memorial Weekend hiking trip bright and early Saturday morning. After a quick stop at the information […]

The first weekend of our Europe trip

Since I’m heading out on a trip to Puerto Rico tomorrow, its a good time to actually blog this forever in progress post. It only details the first weekend of our Europe trip, but at least its something.

In the beginning of October, Cindy and I flew across the Atlantic to soak in the sights of […]

Design is the art of balancing

I’ve seen many people link to Edward Tufte’s video on the iphone interface so I followed suit. Yes, he does a good job articulating some of the great design choices made by Apple and throws in some good suggestions, but he seems to make the assumption that the single point of interface design is to […]

The life of a webdeveloper…

Posted as a comment to the IE Blog
Yea, I know that IE is in a tough spot. This is (at least) partially deserved but I’m going to try and not hold a grudge.
I personally think that you should really consider making the real IE8 engine (”super standards” as some have called it) the default option. […]

All your base belong to us…

Time to welcome the robot overlords, turn on Skynet, turn in fear from Hal 9000, and hope that it/they is/are/can be nice like Jane.
The Storm Worm is coming to get us all

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