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HOWTO read and pronounce URLs
URLs usually appear in written form — online or on paper. Sometimes, URLs are spoken aloud. You’ll often hear URLs read out: So what? Well, almost everyone gets it wrong. And you sound like an idiot when you do. I’ve seen directors of national political organizations and billion-dollar public companies make these mistakes. In the …
Michelle Obama awes London (and me too)
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Dallas police officer Robert Powell is a jackass (and probably racist)
From the Dallas Morning News: Jackass “officer” pulls his gun during a traffic stop, then takes 13 minutes to write a ticket. Oh yeah, Moats’ mother-in-law died while he waited for the ticket to be written. Kunkle said Officer Robert Powell has been placed on paid administrative leave in connection with an incident last week …
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HOWTO deploy PHP sites with Capistrano 2
When I learned Ruby on Rails, I found out about Capistrano. This whole automated deployment thing seemed pretty neat. But then my Rails project finished, and I was back to working on a PHP site. There I was, coding along in naive bliss. Then I started working on voteforchange.com for the Obama Campaign. Nick and …
Jim Cramer: He’s like a dartboard that talks
REI grammar fail
HOWTO stop receiving phone books
You can call the following Yellow Pages producers to be removed from their lists: AT&T/YellowPages (formerly SBC/Bellsouth): 800-792-2665 or 800-248-2800 Verizon (Idearc): 888-266-5965 or 800-888-8448 or 800-555-4833 Valley Yellow Pages: 800-350-8887 Dex: 877-243-8339 Yellow Book: 800-373-3280 or 800-373-2324 or 800-929-3556 You can also sign a petition to request that the Yellow Pages Association use an …
HOWTO set the default target in Xcode
Your Xcode project has one or more targets. Each target builds something—a command-line tool, a framework or an application. The Target popup menu lets you determine the active target. The active target gets built when you click “Build” or “Build & Go.” But what about the default target? What is it, and why do you …
gap.com == fail
Store hours? What store hours? The Gap web site was clearly not designed by anyone who actually wanted to shop. It might have been designed by people who wanted to sell things, but that doesn’t help me. So what’s wrong? Store hours are not listed. Anywhere! (I tried calling the Burlingame store, hoping to get …