Entries for Saturday, July 5, 2008
➠ July 5, 2008
Stuffed to near bursting, after a amazingly delicious dinner at Alfredo’s of Rome. They invented Fettucini Alfredo, ‘parrently.
Posted to Twitter at 9:48 p.m.
Yay! Fireworks!
Photo essay on the insanity of fireworks packaging, courtesy of Cabel Sasser. When I was a kid in the UK, home fireworks were crappy little cheap boxes of wussy rockets and barely-spinny Catherine Wheels. These are huge, expensive and bizarre in comparison.
Queue everything and delight everyone
Good thoughts from Les Orchard — Your webapps don’t have to do all your work the second a user clicks the button on a form. Queue up tasks and respond quickly, and everyone wins.