I’ve tried this idea before, but this time it’s going to stick. I’m keeping politics, religion, trenchant observation, and so forth here at Thudfactor. Technical topics are moving to my Almost Prefect, my new weblog.

Mixing the two just wasn’t working very well for anyone, especially me. I’ll see some of you over [...]

I’ve had an iPhone 3GS since January of 2009. I wasn’t eligible for upgrade when the iPhone 4 came out, so I decided to wait until the next version.

I did own both 3G and 3GS model phones — thanks to a generous employer. The 3GS was a far better device, even if all they [...]

I flag several posts a day that I’d like to come back to at some point and respond to or write about. Obviously that rarely happens. So here’s a link dump instead:

John Gruber at Daring Fireball writes about the experience of The Unfamiliar. As someone whose web skills are broad and shallow, [...]

My four-year-old son is such a finicky eater that he has never tasted his own birthday cake. So I was a little surprised when he agreed to eat a maraschino cherry and *even more surprised* when he asked for another one. When he asked for one more, I offered him an all-natural, [...]

Yeah, so I’ve been tinkering again. Slicehost has been my web host for around two years or so, but they were acquired by Rackspace shortly after I signed up and not much has changed since then. Back in May they announced that they were going to migrate everyone over to Rackspace Cloud hosting, [...]

Here are some of the things I’ve flagged as very interesting, but don’t really have all that much to say about. I promise, it’s not all politics.

The Civil War Isn’t Tragic, Con’t: Ta-Nehisi Coates summarizes a James McPherson book arguing that the Civil War was inevitable, not something that could have been [...]

Some bugs are caused by carelessness, some by basic errors in logic, and others by unanticipated side effects.

But the worst spring from a fundamental misconception about how the entire system works. To solve these you have to reshape your preconceptions and abandon your biases.

Which makes me wonder if LSD would be [...]

It’s become harder and harder to find interesting stuff on the Internet. Help me fix that. Talk about what you do, then talk about what your friends do.