Claymation Christmas Special – with Dinosaurs and California Raisins:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009WHRM/bookstorenow50-20

I watched this as a kid. “Waffle-ing” is forever burned in my mind. Like others, I remember that the sand/stained-glass scene was my least favorite. I wasn’t sure if anyone else had ever heard of or seen this.

I would rather ask my clients to spend their money wisely on things that will improve their business, than to waste it on hours of unnecessary development.

From Andy Clarke at Stuff and Nonsense.

I completely agree. The rest of the article is cool, too, by the way.

Being a programmer sometimes has interesting side-effects on every-day situations.

Today, for instance, I was doing a lot of automation related programming, and some basic shell scripting. Only the shell scripting was really out of the ordinary. I arrived home after work, and found a nice frozen treat to hold me over until the movies tonite. It’s instructions called for defrosting before cooking. My first instinct was to somehow script the microwave to defrost for a time, then immediately begin cooking.

It was almost reactionary to the thought of having to come back to the kitchen to interact with the microwave a second time.

Perhaps I’ve been working too hard?

http://simonwillison.net/2008/May/22/debugging/

Includes:

• Making the most of the error page
• Logging to the development server console
• Using the debugger (pdb)
• Handling errors in production

How many feeds can a speed reader read if the speed reader does read feeds?
Not as many feeds as my Feed Reader feeds, so I’m deleting a bunch of subscriptions.
That last line didn’t rhyme, sorry.