Alan Hogan

Firefox seems so SLOW why does switching tabs take 2 seconds when I only have 8 open? I have 30 open...

Mar 4th

“It’s not weird, though; it’s the Internet” (the sense of “knowing” cewebrities who don’t know you)

Mar 4th

I should not check email after drinking. I reply to spam with profane personal attacks. Yet thou...

Mar 4th

I’m going to SXSWi! Just sat & sun (and some of monday). Who else from PHX is going?

Mar 4th

Who wants to see Watchmen tonight 7pm in Tempe? I have passes!

Mar 3rd

Sometimes I wish I were accused of being distasteful, so that I could respond by asking, “exactly...

Mar 3rd

Raawr! Cutest *and* most intimidating thing I saw today: This tiger cub http://bit.ly/bigtigercub

Mar 2nd

I don’t think most folks really understand just how hard _Tonight: Franz Ferdinand_ rocks. Really...

Mar 2nd

“Guys! I found the son of a b——ch who invented Comic Sans!” http://bit.ly/wXiKr

Mar 2nd

My email signature now features the gem, “Compassion is a brief email,” ironically lengthening the...

Mar 2nd

#lastfm #love Fun and Games by Chuck Mangione http://bit.ly/AjFYS

Mar 2nd

It’s just plain wrong that it’s easier to type an accented character on an cellphone than on a...

Mar 2nd

My home wireless network is named after Marconi; first computer I built, Kilby. Standing on the...

Mar 2nd

And she is toasting @rstevens hahaha love it.

Feb 28th

King’s cup - “toast a great man of this century” is my girlfriend’s rule. I...

Feb 28th

OH: “I’m drunk! … No one is excited and i can’t screw on this cap”

Feb 28th

I love that @gruber can casually say “rock star UI designer.” http://bit.ly/11PEYP

Feb 28th

“I’m now grounded because I have an abnormally-shaped head. FML” http://bit.ly/hjZ7B

Feb 28th

“Every minute, an American child is born into $184,000 of [its share of the national] debt.”

Feb 28th

I COULD ONLY HATE T9 MORE IF IT MADE ME USE COMIC SANS. THIS SUMMER I’M GETTING AN UPDATED...

Feb 28th

#lastfm #love Electric Feel (Justice Remix) by Justice http://bit.ly/13tFB5

Feb 28th

The State Department’s travel advisory for Mexico, dated Feb. 20, 2009: http://bit.ly/zMaUN

Feb 27th

So smoggy in Tempe today. Where’s my algae-made biodiesel? #ignitephx

Feb 27th

This man’s sneeze was so forceful and unexpected, I felt a shocking surge of adrenaline...

Feb 27th

Dear followers, @-replies, and great link sharers, I love you! I apologize for occasional accidental...

Feb 27th

Weird

Feb 26th

If you impress girls with your flawless, magical teleportation abilities, you might be a “smooth...

Feb 26th

Apparently IE7 is already being deprecated! So awesome! I hate it, myself. Bug city. Thx @Malarkey

Feb 26th

Client asked me to set up a Yahoo account for them (I guess it’s too hard?) and then complain when I...

Feb 26th

When I feel unproductive, I just remember that my testes are producing quite a lot. Okay, that...

Feb 26th

Pimping @ppk’s “To Hell With Bad Browsers: The Sequel” – Ditch IE6, link to his excellent page...

Feb 26th

#MrTweet I recommend @timoreilly because he keeps us looking up and looking forward.

Feb 26th

Two left!

Feb 26th

Here’s hoping for working WiFi at the next #ignitephx

Feb 26th

White kid on the light rail was railing on light skinned folk, explaining to his latino friend that...

Feb 26th

http://twitpic.com/1p2sm - Crowd at #ignitephx

Feb 26th

Metaprogramming in PHP. Good stuff.

Feb 26th

I just can’t deal with your defeatist attitude, man. I give up!

Feb 25th

RT @alanhogan “When she told her mother, her mother slapped her and said, ‘no priest would do...

Feb 24th

The “yearbook” method of graphic design: Add extraneous punctuation all over the place. », [],...

Feb 24th

Should US citizens call themselves Americans? Statesmen? What? Why? Please chime in :)...

Feb 23rd

Just made a TextExpander snippet for the asterism. a*** goes to ⁂! #typography #nerd

Feb 23rd

#lastfm #love Do You Want To by Franz Ferdinand http://bit.ly/19YTqx

Feb 23rd

Everyone vote for multiple calendar support via Google Sync… I’m dying here…...

Feb 23rd

You can use NuevaSync to sync multiple Google Calendars with iPhone! It works for me! Cheers,...

Feb 23rd

Whoa, Google just rolled out iPod/iPhone calendar sync using the MS Exchange ActiveSync protocol....

Feb 23rd

David Mitchell: Twitter ye not - I adore...

Feb 23rd

Via @NikLP: “If I’d said: ‘What’s vagina?’, it would have been less embarrassing” haha...

Feb 23rd

Hahaha “X-men musical, perhaps?” https://twitter.com/twitch1021/statuses/1239316274

Feb 23rd

“I hate my life and I wanna die / I got no iPhone / My heart is broken, thinkin’ suicide / I got no...

Feb 22nd

Exercise is very important. I have tried several styles. I used to run a lot, I tried lifting, then...

Feb 22nd

Brewing some ceylon tea (with honey) as I dig back into some DB->PHP->XML code. Some of this...

Feb 22nd

My high school calc teacher’s 17-month-old, reading a calc book. http://bit.ly/3u5oy

Feb 22nd

Help! How can I get Google to show links within my site, like this? Example: http://bit.ly/l9Rco

Feb 21st

Wow! I’m doing nothing, MicrosoftKeyboardHelper and MicrosoftMouseHelper are eating 60% CPU on...

Feb 21st

Protip: If you are freaking out because your firewall shows iTunes downloading who-knows-what…...

Feb 21st

Wow – what’s still wrong with IE8: http://bit.ly/krBTZ (MSIE8 still has no XPath?) via @NikLP

Feb 21st

Glad to see I apparently inspired @jmoriarty to join the #blackout (without abandoning an avatar -...

Feb 20th

Yesss! “To Hell With Bad Browsers II” - @ppk has a FANTASTIC page to get your IE6 visitors to...

Feb 20th

My only recommendation for #followfriday is the überpicky (and überplucky) iPhone developer...

Feb 20th

Sigh. So I guess we wait for real standards support in IE9?

Feb 20th

Internet Explorer 8’s Incompatability List Is Really Sad: lmao typical...

Feb 20th

Microsoft will be talking about their “new” mobile browser which is based on MSIE6....

Feb 20th

According to this employee, Microsoft used put MSIE6 rendering engine on Mobile b/c of lighter...

Feb 20th

Asked about the trend of pulling MSIE6 support, MS employee denied the trend and said all webmasters...

Feb 20th

On campus, i should add.

Feb 20th

Is there a meta tag (or similar) to define a thumbnail for a website?

Feb 20th

BURRITO is an ENGLISH WORD now. We call them LOAN WORDS but we are NOT GIVING THEM BACK.

Feb 20th

Text I sent today: “… breakfast currito DAMNIT T9 I ALREADY TAUGHT YOU BURRITO ARGH I...

Feb 20th

Finally did some follow-backs. (Not you? It’s OK, I just wasn’t interested by your recent tweets....

Feb 19th

I really like @brianshaler’s post about getting the most out of twitter: http://bit.ly/LEkRL...

Feb 19th

And big props to @atebits for his new “Fixing OAuth” blog post, with which I agree 100%. +5...

Feb 19th

I just nerdgasmed for this amazing “cassette tape” finger-powered spool-rewinding MP3 player...

Feb 19th

2010 Mustang GT Car Raffle | Win a Ford...

Feb 18th

2010 Mustang GT raffle! Just finished this website for my dad’s school. Can you find 2 Safari...

Feb 18th

Nice, at least 9% of the Internet is using a WebKit browser! (Stats from hitslink:...

Feb 18th

“Go ahead and be outraged” Comparing Facbook’s terms of service with MySpace, Twitter,...

Feb 17th

Proof Jason Calacanis is a nobody hot-air duplicitous toolbag, just like we all knew he was anyway...

Feb 17th

Good morning, England; I’m going to bed. More work on http://bit.ly/stang in the morning. Thoughts...

Feb 17th

Of course, naturally that puts me in the mood for Madonna. Hey, it’s not the 90s - I’d...

Feb 17th

My in-ear Sennheisers make me feel confident that no one suspects that Britney is playing on my...

Feb 16th

http://twitpic.com/1ives - The ROFLCar

Feb 16th

Darkened my avatar in support of the #blackout protest of *insane* New Zealand copyright law!...

Feb 16th

I’m writing an open letter to the illiterate

Feb 16th

Useful word of the day: “flexitarian.” That’s a vegetarian who occaisionally eats meat. See also:...

Feb 14th

http://twitpic.com/1had7 - A rather funny message to receive when thinking about evolution and...

Feb 14th

Web developers: Declare your pages’ canonical URLs to all three big search engines WITH NO “WWW”:...

Feb 14th

Drop the "WWW": How and why to use...

Feb 14th

TextExpander tips: Replacing Quicksilver via...

Feb 14th

Layer tennis volley 2 feels pretty disconnected from the first – he could have done that to any...

Feb 13th

RT @webdav: Microsoft IE team: Easiest solution: Give up and use WebKit. Then … bolt on Active...

Feb 13th

Economic Stimulus: Legalize Marijuana. Cut funds for the war on drugs. Tax the grass. So obvious it...

Feb 13th

“A college kid smoking pot — I don’t endorse it… but should you be committing very...

Feb 13th

Mac tip: Using TextExpander + Spotlight to replace Quicksilver http://bit.ly/sdvNz

Feb 13th

I’ll celebrate Darwin’s birthday the @webdav way!...

Feb 12th

If you write an editorial for the @statepress it had better have a point and have its facts right....

Feb 12th

blow at life: Pepsi Logo - a response

Feb 11th

RT @HFCS: Think America will ever be respected until restaurants don’t assume “cheese” means...

Feb 11th

Test: Does this this link NOT work for anyone? http:google.com

Feb 11th

New Hampshire asserts state sovereignty: http://is.gd/idYu (EXCELLENT read!) along with *19* other...

Feb 11th

Just read a report of why diets don’t work for some people. The answer: adherence! (Other...

Feb 11th

Hero of the day: profilic, intrepid graffiti artist Banksy. “A lot of people never use their...

Feb 10th

Remember the Helvetica quote equating it to Big Business and the Vietnam War? Well this Banksy book...

Feb 10th

“You don’t put out a fire with more gasoline and you don’t end a recession by...

Feb 10th

I’m not saying anything more than: really interesting abortion-related lawsuit....

Feb 10th

Separation of Church and State Quiz

Feb 9th

RT @brianehaler If my checking account was a form of art, it would be Baroque. Overdraft! Whoops!

Feb 9th

When I get upset about idiotic comments on YouTube, I just remember this XKCD: http://xkcd.com/386/...

Feb 9th

(okay that wasn’t supposed to be a public tweet. sorry. here’s the source if you’re interested:...

Feb 9th

I just learned Joseph Smith’s Book of Mormon, supposedly from 600 B.C., contains...

Feb 9th

Costs of feeding the world, Christmas, and the financial bailout… surprising comparison:...

Feb 9th

Finally watching Transformers - and I hate it. If I had 140,000 characters, I would list the...

Feb 8th

The 2008 Darwin awards have been announced. I still can’t believe anyone would fly a plane...

Feb 7th

#followfriday @meyerweb @rstevens @crispycracka @jmoriarty @michelleyusuf @atheistqotd @shalunov...

Feb 6th

I’d been Googling for “memetic retrovirus” in hopes I was the first to coin it (to describe...

Feb 6th

OH: “all the worlds major religions are asian. religion is an asian memetic retrovirus.” —matthew h....

Feb 6th

So obvious it hurts: all dishwashers should have a dirty/clean toggle which sets itself to clean and...

Feb 6th

Inspired by @RyanSwagar and the fact weed really isn’t dangerous… let’s boycott Kelloggs until...

Feb 6th

FICO ’08: The *new* credit score. With the best illustration ever. http://tinyurl.com/cltmq6 via...

Feb 6th

The so-called economic stimulus package will increase the US national debt of $10 trillion by 10%....

Feb 6th

Anyone else think getting a mail-merged letter from a dean with a scanned signature is an overrated...

Feb 6th

Sometimes I forget just how bad Windows users have it. E.g. primitive desktop background options. No...

Feb 5th

I am following @DRCBlogs for no reason other than the fact he used an interrobang....

Feb 5th

I just installed a monitor on my bedroom ceiling. Want to see? #nerdpickuplines

Feb 5th

What is the one thing that would make you feel most accomplished at the end of your life?

Feb 5th

Okay here’s the deal. You like to laugh? You need to follow @crispycracka!

Feb 5th

If iCal says “Calendar cannot be found” again, I am going to personally fight Apple iCal, Google...

Feb 5th

Wow, the longest and most amazing story on why marijuana is illegal I’ve ever seen:...

Feb 4th

Quicksilver has become too buggy and slow on my Mac, and Spotlight is adequate. It was a good run,...

Feb 4th

Not so confident about this stimulus package. It really seems more like an excuse to spend on...

Feb 4th

PeTA actually turned me vegetarian as of today. I hope this lasts! (I’ll still eat seafood.)

Feb 3rd

Factoid: Most of have more than the average number of feet. And eyes.

Feb 3rd

Dear Paul Rudd fans. Free screening? Love, Alan http://www.thereeltruth.com/screenings/LuvU.htm

Feb 3rd

:)

Feb 3rd

Apparently the Opera browser folks put up a billboard ad right by Microsoft’s campus! Go @Opera!...

Feb 2nd

I’ve had good experiences with 1and1. Only negative is no Rails support, and occasional (under 24...

Feb 2nd

The best reaction to the Phelps marijuana silliness is @Carnage4Life’s:...

Feb 2nd

Dear Instapaper. Please support <pre>. Not being able to read code examples is killing me.

Feb 2nd

I, Robot is still one of my favorite recent sci-fi films. It’s also the only film with a properly...

Feb 2nd

Forget who linked this, but it’s important: Fix school lunch nutrition! http://is.gd/i3Pn Heads up...

Feb 2nd

Being a #Steelers fan in Arizona is a downer. I shouldn’t feel guilty my hometown played superbly!

Feb 2nd

“The employees get a lot of joy … out of anthropomorphizing the robots and turning them into...

Feb 2nd

This is the first Cardinals game I’ve seen in my life. (@Kelleybee said not to admit that.)

Feb 2nd

The brazen Cash4Gold scam explained - http://tinyurl.com/dkddpg (via @Carnage4Life)

Feb 1st

The x-files movie just started on Fox!

Feb 1st