Pragmatic EntropyProud Purveyor of Bytes and Pixels Since 1980

Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

One of my favorite quotes

by Scott Williams » click here for full post

"You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
– Anne Lamott

Take my picture

by Scott Williams » click here for full post

An interesting [to me anyway] observation - When asking someone to take a picture of me with my camera:

4 years ago - With a point & shoot - Now, it’s digital so just look at the screen.
Today - With an SLR - No, you have to look through the viewfinder. No really, that screen is [...] Read more »

FogBugz For Free

by Scott Williams » click here for full post

One of my favorite tech/programming blogs has been Joel Spolsky’s Joel On Software. I’ve also been interested in his company’s premier product, FogBugz, but the $129+ license fee turned away small time developers like myself.

Recently, they put together a version of FogBugz that is 100% hosted by Fog Creek’s servers, and included a “startup and [...] Read more »

“Throwaway” dummy text

by Scott Williams » click here for full post

Why you shouldn’t be too outlandish in the garbage text you create when debugging an email script: there may be someone else in the company that has the same name as you, and only a ‘.’ differentiates the address. The “other” Scott Williams was cool about it though. Fortunately I didn’t fill the body of [...] Read more »

Night Factory

by Scott Williams » click here for full post

Not sure exactly what this building is. It looks like some kind of quarry elevator thing.
I’ve had my eye on it for a while, the lighting works quite well when it’s dark out, but it was hard to find a good position to get in for the shot. It’s gated pretty much all the way [...] Read more »

Word Play

by Scott Williams » click here for full post

I love how “procrastinate” has the word “pro” in it; makes it sound positive.