Category: Geek

If you live in town, please join us next Tuesday evening to celebrate the launch of the Obama ’08 iPhone and iPod Touch application and to watch the next presidential debate. We’ve reserved the Mission Theater for this event, and it is expected to hit capacity (fire code). It’s free, so get there early! Get [...]

It is with great joy that I am finally able to share with you the project that I (and a ridiculously talented small group of people) have had the good fortune to be a part of: Obama ’08, the official iPhone application for the Obama/Biden presidential campaign. Neat, huh? The amount of energy that went [...]

Over the years of working in tech, I have noticed a pattern: certain technologies, languages, procedures, whatever, tend to make sense instantly and permanently to me. Other things, even if I work with them for months or years, never feel quite right. The latter leave me feeling less than intelligent. I’ve also noticed that the [...]

Complaining Bloggers Have a Cable Company’s Ear – NYTimes.com: “” Lyza Gardner, a vice president at a Web development company in Portland, Ore., used Twitter to vent about a $183 cable bill last month. (The bill was prorated for almost two months of service.) Her comment — “very angry at Comcast” — set off Mr. [...]

One thing that I have done right in my life is my domain. I was together enough to register lyza.com in the mid-90s. I was together enough to maintain some semblance of Web presence. Google developed a strong relationship with my site. Anyone in the world who needs me or wants to know about me [...]

So I call my mobile device a cell phone, a lot of the time. I’m kind of in the biz (mobile and Web development), so maybe it matters, my jargon. Cameron Moll, in his book “Mobile Web Design” decries this habit as podunk and indicative of a culture ignorant of the impact (or potential impact) [...]

whirly feet Originally uploaded by lyzadanger Mine was, inexplicably, or ironically, one of my feet. I took it in San Diego where I was attending O’Reilly’s ETech conference in 2005. Flickr was quite the topic of conversation. This was back in the era where your account/profile had to be approved before you could actually post [...]

Five Myths About Drinking Water : NPR I always knew the OMG-everyone-is-chronically-dehydrated blowhards were full of it. (tags: health npr water) There Were Orders to Follow – New York Times Well, I’m depressed. (tags: bush torture editorial)

Essay About Love and Literary Taste – Books – Review – New York Times Humorous or snotty? I can’t decide. You decide. (tags: books reading NYT essay)

Non-tech readers can ignore this. Continuing to proselytize the JQuery JavaScript framework; getting a lot done with it. Approaching a brown belt in WordPress customizations and cetera. Just tapping the surface of Drupal Getting my fingers wet on a little iPhone Web app; a bit wary but excited about the SDK Hoping to get the [...]