Author: Kevin Lawver

The Many Shades of Geek

There are many kinds of people who end up working software development. I’ve been writing code for half a decade now and I’ve discovered that there are only a few general categories people fall into. There are strengths and weaknesses in each category, and you’ll be able to tell which category I think I fall […]

And One Fell Out

I’m sure that if you pay attention to such things, you know that AOL laid a lot of people off today. I’ve been through several (I think this is my sixth or seventh, I can’t keep them straight now). They’re no fun, and it always feels like people have died when I hear they’ve been […]

The Man

Don’t fight the Man… it only leads to pain, my friend. To explain, web standards: CSS, DIV’s, XHTML, the whole “separating content from display” nonsense, etc… it’s hard. It’s really hard. It’s especially hard when you have an extremely wide range of browsers to support, a rigid and uncompromising client, a design that doesn’t lend […]

One Word At a Time

Use Terminal Instead of Finder = Bad Finder

I’m bored waiting to get sleepy enough to crawl into my empty bed in a house that’s too quiet. I went to blo.gs and checking out all the recently updated sites, and stumbled across Daring Fireball. Interesting Mac-related stuff. The guy’s on a crusade against the Mac OS X Finder, and he makes some excellent […]

En Fuego Con Queso

The Snow@AOL

A Winter Wonderland

It’s snowing!! I was so excited last night, I couldn’t sleep. 5-6″ so far and more coming down. I’m gonna see if the camera will wake up and am gonna go take some pictures then crawl into work in my 4×4. The snow started around 11pm. At midnight, I used taking out the trash as […]

Photos, FINALLY!!

The Last Little Frankenstein