A playground for my PHP or other programming skills and a place to post anything I am interested in, whether you like it or not. http://dmoney.vip.warped.com 24-hour comics are an idea that I've always thought was neat: write, draw, ink, and letter a complete 24-page comic in 24 hours. It's an example of embracing constraints to fuel creativity. The 24-hour idea has been tried in other areas that I can't think of at the moment, but I'd be surprised if software wasn't one of them. http://dmoney.vip.warped.com/index.php?post=24-hour-theater While I've been much happier with Firefox than IE (both for browsing and for development), both browsers suck for hardcore multibrowsing (HMB), in which a user has many web pages open at once, and may open several links from any given page, in separate tabs or windows, keeping them open as separate threads of exploration or work. At my current screen resolution, both start scrolling the tab bar at 10 tabs. If you get much beyond 10 tabs, selecting a tab becomes annoying. http://dmoney.vip.warped.com/index.php?post=1209327017 I came home from work yesterday and surfed the web for a couple hours. I had been fairly worn out, but after vegging for a while, I was relaxed. As I've said before, the web is my TV. It's something to do while I'm not doing anything. Something to distract me while I wait for the tension to work itself out. http://dmoney.vip.warped.com/index.php?post=unwinding I finished my experiment with restricting my web surfing a couple weeks ago, but I still haven't posted a summary. For a few days, I felt really good, refreshed. I got a couple things done that I otherwise wouldn't have, like figuring out how to open the fluorescent light fixture in the kitchen ceiling. Eventually, feeling bored, I watched a bunch of DVDs, which probably should count as cheating. I think there's a happy medium, but I'm not sure exactly what it is. It may be to set a maximum number of hours per week when I can surf. Or it may be to try and recognize what surfing patterns are useful and what aren't. Or it may be to alternate periods of normal surfing being allowed, with periods of being "off the grid". Perhaps I'm just rationalizing why we needs the Precious. http://dmoney.vip.warped.com/index.php?post=1207874489 @justin_dz i saw the WebEx building. think i saw 2 actly. drvng thru silcnValy is like drving thru a museum of names from the web. whoh yhoo http://dmoney.vip.warped.com/index.php?post=1207621478 I took a walk today after work. I looked at the clouds some. There were pretty post-rain bluish clouds, and there were golden pre-sunset clouds shining through dark but sparse post-sunset clouds below. I like looking at clouds. I'm good at it. http://dmoney.vip.warped.com/index.php?post=1207100917 I e-mailed myself earlier to post this later. I'm not going to edit it much unless it really needs it. [edit: it needed it. I edited it for formatting a bit, and now I'm getting offline.] http://dmoney.vip.warped.com/index.php?post=1206583047 The no web surfing experiment has been going on for two evenings now. I'm gonna go ahead and call it.. Project Wipeout. Two things I've noticed so far: 1. more time, 2. web surfing takes energy. http://dmoney.vip.warped.com/index.php?post=1206535314 I spend way too much time online. But Dustin, I hear you say, in the new digital world, we are always online. http://dmoney.vip.warped.com/index.php?post=1206399757 I just read this HOWTO on productivity by Aaron Swartz. One suggestion I liked was to try to make dull tasks fun. Something I thought of recently was, when working with exceptionally bad source code (which I may or may not have written), is to pretend it was written by aliens. It only seems like hyperdimensional spaghetti because their brains are more advanced than ours. (Hopefully the code can be translated to become understandable by humans.) I haven't actually tried this. http://dmoney.vip.warped.com/index.php?post=1205976643