http://wantingseed.com/sprout blogs just keep sprouting Mon, 19 May 2008 01:15:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's always some good reason why I'm not posting.  Well, there are always reasons, anyway.  I'm not sure they're always good.  Not that anybody cares, but the following is a non-exhaustive list of things I've been working on besides writing here: finishing my presentation for Rational, playing Final Fantasy Crystal ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2008/05/18/always-something I was writing an email to a friend when I realized that I'd written most of a blog post I've been meaning to do for a while right into the email.  So in the spirit of eliminating the fowl with stones deux, here's a quick summary of the many reasons ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2008/05/01/quicksilver-lovn At the Lin wedding last week, each table was invited to write a poem or story beginning with the line, "Ellen and Eric were just wed..."  My table decided the most equitable thing to do was to let each person at the table write two words at a time and ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2008/02/23/collaborative-effort I sleep funny. Or rather, I sleep in strange and awkward positions that for some reason I find entirely comfortable. Most people upon seeing me sleeping assume I'm a corpse with a broken neck. I was digging through some backups recently looking for a document when I ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2008/02/05/nearly-broken-neck Please help my failing memory.  There used to be a hilarious recording of a guy who had hooked up some equipment to his phone line and would reverse-spam telemarketers who called him with an automated system.  Key points -- the fake person who answered the phone asked silly questions like: "Think ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2008/01/08/dear-interwebs I've got a lot to talk about. We've moved cities, I changed jobs, and Jodie does something new, cute, and amazing nearly every day. So I'm going to talk about pens instead. In theory, I'm going to get back on a roll and start updating the blog with all the other ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2007/12/29/my-life-lately Skip this post right now if you're not interested in details interesting only to web application security geeks.  Don't complain, I warned you.There's a lot of wrong ways you can try to secure a web application while still allowing content from users.   It's a surprisingly difficult thing to do, ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2007/11/19/how-not-to-protect-your-webapp Macs are a lot of fun. Everybody gets to pretend they know how to edit a movie or write a song. Of course, no amount of cool toys will make my movies or songs come out better, but that's a separate issue. Anyway, today I had need ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2007/11/06/burn-a-large-imovie-archive Am I the only one who thinks the Country Music Awards logo looks strangely like the Starfleet Command insignia from Star Trek: The Next Generation? http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2007/11/05/cma-or-sttng I mostly got it right, but there were a few gotchas that bit me as I upgraded to Leopard from Tiger.  I always do a clean install instead of an upgrade since it helps clear out the cruft that builds up on my machine.  Anyway, here's a few of the ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2007/10/31/quick-and-dirty-leopard-upgrade-guide