Alan Hogan

2009

June 4
May 3
April 9
March 61
February 132
January 139

2008

June 135
May 90
April 133
March 99
January
Radiohead’s OK Computer. So good it hurts! (…this tweet brought to you by 1997 and Late To The...
Sep 30th
Microsoft is including jQuery with Visual Studio now! Congrats @jeresig and team, and sincere props...
Sep 30th
Beginners’ tip: Perl has no boolean datatypes; uses eq, ne (not equal), and cmp (-1/0/1) for string...
Sep 30th
Since I’m talking about music: I love listening to instrumental Depeche Mode while...
Sep 30th
Kaiser Chiefs’ song “The Angry Mob” is very appropriate for this US election ramp-up. Listen:...
Sep 29th
Overheard: (Sarah Palin) “being cloistered from the media” – wow what a word choice! Cloistered,...
Sep 29th
Wow, Google was trading at $700 less than a year ago and is now below $400, not to mention closing...
Sep 29th
“Punctuation is decreasing, not increasing. The semicolon is not long for this world.” Interrobang...
Sep 29th
Is Gotham the new Helvetica? Beyond the fact they are place-name gothics: Neutral, often used in...
Sep 29th
Semi-randomly following a sampling a few of @rogieking’s favorite tweeps: http://is.gd/3e2n...
Sep 28th
“Nothing, love. Nothing’s wrong. Hold me.” (ship blows) -Watchmen
Sep 28th
“All those generations of struggle, what purpose did they ever achieve? All that effort, and...
Sep 28th
Vuze: Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch
Sep 27th
Each generation dreams of a tomorrow without the troubles of today. Let us build the foundation...
Sep 27th
If you liked the last minute of Thank You for Smoking, check out @rsteven’s...
Sep 27th
*hugs* for all the vegetarians and vegans out there. It’s hug a vegetarian day (2008-09-26)!
Sep 27th
Radiohead are now allowing remixes to Reckoner. Some already playable here:...
Sep 26th
“there is good and there is evil, and evil must be punished. Even in the face of armageddon I...
Sep 26th
Just bought The Watchmen. Looking forward to reading it
Sep 25th
Free Sarah Palin! http://is.gd/34WZ “If you live in a glass house”
Sep 25th
Iced green tea from Seattle’s Best is definitely the worst ever. It’s actually...
Sep 25th
I completely disagree with Google – they forgot URLs as UI and URLs shouldn’t change....
Sep 24th
Just got my shipment of business cards from OvernightPrints.com (a week later , but I didn’t rush...
Sep 24th
Welcoming coworker @lightmedium to Twitter. I expect hilarity. See: Recent posts on “pyork”
Sep 24th
Please, music gods, let there be nothing wrong with the fact my favorite Beck song is Ghettochip...
Sep 24th
Kelley and I (and Sierra) are sharing MP3s using Deusty’s Mojo software. So good! Now to convince...
Sep 24th
Republic Tigers review by Steve Thompson: “Agu-gu-dada!...
Sep 23rd
Amazon, I love you, but PLEASE stop adding (Album version) to the end of each track name!...
Sep 23rd
I didn’t have the heart to send it. I support our troops, just not their netiquette…...
Sep 23rd
Dominic’s is still my favorite Tempe bike shop. They just straightened my derailer for nothing...
Sep 23rd
CAPS LOCK MAKES THE MAN: The Marines: Semper Caps
Sep 23rd
Everybody read question and answer #5. http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html
Sep 22nd
This disturbing, innovative clock expresses my feeling about time perfectly. http://is.gd/2Ndk (via...
Sep 21st
The Fray’s “How to Save a Life” makes we want to kill myself. :-/
Sep 21st
Open standards connect each other. Microsoft doesn’t. Inter-compatibility is better then hegemony
Sep 20th
Ok, Twitter.com is down right?
Sep 20th
“Sometimes I worry that if I were someone else, I wouldn’t be friends with me?” (sigh) –Dinosaur...
Sep 20th
They made Reese’s Puffs for serial peanut butter bingers.
Sep 20th
“We’ve also … round[ed] some corners (which you won’t see on Internet Explorer but...
Sep 20th
Who loves fat models? Thin controllers. (MVC according to CakePHP)
Sep 19th
I have a great @asusoda treasurer in @areading :)
Sep 19th
New design for $1 dollar bill. http://bancomicsans.com/statistics.html
Sep 19th
“It’s the famous hit by a bus; if a developer is hit by a bus will the project still continue?”...
Sep 19th
Since I’m naming names, David Ott is my favorite professor this semester.
Sep 19th
http://twitpic.com/c4ns -
Sep 19th
News Gothic was designed in 1908. Wow. It looks so contemporary
Sep 19th
omg typeface crush http://tinyurl.com/479hft/
Sep 19th
(Subjective) fact: Monster Mixxd Energy+Juice tastes like prune juice. But it’s oddly enjoyable.
Sep 19th
Blackboard must have a good sales team. By “good,” I mean “soulless.”
Sep 18th
I could never go back to Windows. Heck, my files with parentheses in their names wouldn’t even...
Sep 18th
New MSFT ad slogan: “Windows. Life without walls.” Makes no sense! Old joke: “A world w/o fences or...
Sep 18th
Green Restaurant’s over-processed vegan substitutes for cheese and meat leave a strong...
Sep 18th
By the beard of Zeus, I hate Blackboard. Easily the worst software UI I use in a daily fashion
Sep 18th
Only 1K Google results for “stressure”. Sounds like an awesome word. Can we do better? YES WE CAN
Sep 17th
ASU just renamed our advisors to Academic Success Specialists. Yes, ASSes. “If you could find...
Sep 17th
Just hooked Laci Sommars up with Firefox and Sierra Sommars up with Opera. Sierra loves Opera!...
Sep 17th
It’s not important enough to twitter.
Sep 17th
Prof on not being able to tell male vs female once in a while: “wait… Adam’s...
Sep 17th
Protip: the little water fountain has colder water because it was used less recently. (In general....
Sep 17th
Palin Bags a Bigfoot | Weekly World News
Sep 17th
Richard Cohen - The Ugly New McCain -...
Sep 16th
“You really want a robot for a friend?” “Yeah, ever since I was 6!” “Well I don’t want anyone...
Sep 16th
“Futurama. In color” –Pilot episode
Sep 16th
If you’re upset that New Facebook runs slowly, it’s because you’re using Internet Exploder. It’s...
Sep 16th
Mac OS X 10.5.5 is out. Also, @asusoda meeting tonight! Should be good!
Sep 16th
Did Google just add “last signed in from”-type functionality to Gmail (at the bottom)?...
Sep 16th
Double Dragon
Sep 15th
City of Tempe can provide you with a free composting container....
Sep 14th
Friend, SoDA (http://asusoda.com) treasurer, and fellow Java hater Andrew Reading is now on Twitter!...
Sep 14th
cnewmark: John McCain attacks Palin's...
Sep 13th
microsoft ad - suggests spyware: Uploaded with plasq’s...
Sep 12th
PHP6 is in beta. I can’t friggin wait for version 6.0.0 :)
Sep 12th
You guys realize the LHC has webcams? http://tinyurl.com/5tyyq3
Sep 11th
“And if i die before I wake / I have the hadron collider to thank”
Sep 11th
Gonna go ahead and say it: The Filter did what Genius did, years ago, in iTunes.
Sep 11th
freemanae8
Sep 11th
“Hopsy hops hops. I love hops…” – Happy frog or Will Ferrel drinking an IPA?
Sep 10th
Oh snap! What a pun. http://tinyurl.com/redbull-palin (thanks @rstevens)
Sep 10th
Obama on one of my favorite civil rights – habeus corpus! http://rurl.org/zn8
Sep 10th
“It might be the whiskey talkin’ / But the whiskey says ‘I love you’ everyday” –Fountains of Wayne....
Sep 10th
Microsoft pays college students to pretend to like Live Search. Good plan, guys. http://rurl.org/zfm
Sep 9th
It’s rare, but using a semicolon in a text msg makes me feel classy
Sep 8th
What I like about (and how to identify) Gotham http://ping.fm/4uZOL
Sep 8th
My computer is dying. Hard disk is dead. Not a good day. Thanks to @disinnovate for helping me...
Sep 8th
Your website doesn’t need an MVC pattern, it needs caching - opposite of your web app. When my...
Sep 8th
Karen Moyer is gone? Truly one of the sweetest girls I’ve ever met. You will be missed,...
Sep 8th
“…a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical” - Nathaniel...
Sep 5th
wow. desktop-like presentations in your browser (better than S5, it seems). http://280slides.com/
Sep 5th
“Bad design is where the customer thinks it’s their fault that something doesn’t work.” – David...
Sep 5th
Pet peeve: lights shining down though fan blades
Sep 4th
Gmail breaks in Opera now!: Supposedly Chrome will make...
Sep 4th
I’ll never forget my my mom telling me that her co-workers … bought Polish-English...
Sep 4th
Um, Google? this happens every time I shift-click “Compose Mail” in Opera: http://rurl.org/z1s
Sep 4th
“On Google Chrome” Excellent, positive piece by an Opera employee (http://ping.fm/UTel8)
Sep 4th
If you ever want to freak out someone with tenure, ask if you can text them your homework. (thanks...
Sep 4th
Turning a website into a news feed? http://Feed43.com worked well, but you better know HTML....
Sep 3rd
Palin cut funding for teenage mothers: http://tinyurl.com/5aoypt (retweeting @gruber)
Sep 3rd
New ad strategy allows companies to override...
Sep 3rd
such unsightly vegetation which evidently found something congenial in the soil (around) the black...
Sep 3rd
Going to Flagstaff to rock climb “the pit”
Sep 3rd
With all the buzz about Google Chrome (their new web browser) – don’t forget Opera!...
Sep 3rd
Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in...
Sep 3rd
Chrome developers’ comic is outstanding. http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
Sep 3rd
http://rurl.org/yzk Sarah Palin “vlog” very funny
Sep 3rd