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just because it’s a bit of work doesn’t mean it can’t be fun: spaghetti code has its place in the world, too, damn it.

Just because it’s possible doesn’t mean it’s quick: we’re going to be here awhile, no matter how many times things are replaced, reiterated, looped, threshed, and/or beaten within inches of those puny little coding-lives.

Just because it’s possible doesn’t mean it’s necessarily easy: uploading almost fourteen hundred files into WP, with categories, tags, custom taxonomies, and custom fields extracted, converted, and intact. Mostly.

Following links while researching, and stumbled over what appeared to be the start of a good forum thread, archived somewhere in google’s depths. What are the qualities of a good visual-media (television, music video, movie) work? First respondent goes for the relativist approach: “a good video is measured by how large an effect it has [...]

Especially if you’ve got the chromosone that says “will automatically have the HARDEST FRICKIN TIME when it comes to electrical systems”. I’m talking everything from Kaypro to Compaq to Apple, and every operating system from MS-Dos 1.0 through Windows NT, from Apple’s first release through the first Mac up to Leopard 10.5, all the way [...]

From Stephen Fry’s blog, fryblog:
“But who can deny that design really matters? Or that good design need not be more expensive? We spend our lives inside the virtual environment of digital platforms – why should a faceless, graceless, styleless nerd or a greedy hog of a corporate twat deny us simplicity, beauty, grace, fun, sexiness, [...]