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  • Good News, Everyone! (A Job!)
    published on Jul 16th, 2010 in Work

    I’m extremely excited to announce that I have agreed to take a position with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (aka CHOP) starting in early August. I will be working as a senior Linux administrator in their research department and will get a chance to ply my trade in pursuit of gene sequencing and population studies [...]

  • Mousetrap Never Works (Or: I Love The Internet, Reason #123,762)
    published on Jul 14th, 2010 in Humor, Music, Videos

    Satirists the world over are given a gigantic stage upon which to display their talents. You’ve seen Ok Go’s “This Too Shall Pass”, now watch the pitch-perfect dissection of a fondscarring childhood memory, disguised as a parody of the aforementioned song:

  • I’m Speaking At WordCamp Philly
    published on Jun 4th, 2010 in Blogging, General, Work

    Write down the date — October 30, 2010, the day before Halloween, I’m due to speak at WordCamp Philly down at Temple University in Philadelphia. I’m incredibly honored to be given the chance to speak on a topic near to my heart: Making WordPress Work AT Work. I plan on posting a series of articles [...]

  • Making phpPgAdmin Work
    published on May 28th, 2010 in Open Source Software, Work

    This post is more of a reminder to myself than anything else. It took me a while and a bit of Googling to find the right answer. If you’re using phpPgAdmin to administer PostgreSQL databases and you want to be able to alter records from the web-based interface — i.e., you want each row to [...]

  • “Carlton! You… Shall Not… PASS!”
    published on May 24th, 2010 in Humor, Television, Videos

    The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, as interpreted by Sir Ian McKellen: Too, too funny.

  • WordPress Hg
    published on May 18th, 2010 in General, Open Source Software, Software, WordPress

    I’ve really caught the Mercurial bug recently and have begun chewing coworkers’ ears off about its benefits. I’ve been looking into ways to integrate it into my WordPress-related efforts and, inspired by this recent post on the WP Devel blog announcing a github effort to make WP available via git, I decided to set up [...]

  • Zee Pixels! Zay Are Comink!
    published on Apr 8th, 2010 in Video Games, Videos
  • That’s Some “Weird”, Wild Stuff
    published on Mar 25th, 2010 in Humor, Videos

    A bit of revisionist history, perhaps, but I can’t wait for the theatrical release! *chuckle*

  • Clever Post Title
    published on Mar 14th, 2010 in Humor, Movies

    Hyperbolic statement of praise! Overt statement requesting readership views video embedded above, delivered in interrogatory format. (Cite source.)

  • Okay, Go Watch This OK Go Video. RIGHT NOW.
    published on Mar 2nd, 2010 in Music, Videos

    I am utterly speechless. Yowsa. Make sure to watch the making-of videos for this masterpiece.

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