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"not a big fan of this idea. Jordan was a really great player, but every generation has its great player/s, and singling out Jordan does an injustice to other greats." - David Hamilton

My beautiful and awesome Golden Retriever Soolin on her 5th birthday - David Hamilton

"When I was 9 or 10 we were playing in a friend's basement, and his older brother showed us how he could soak his hand in gasoline and light it without burning himself. We were in awe. Somehow this led to us soaking a tennis ball in the gasoline and setting it on fire, then playing a crazy game of kickball that ended when the ball got kicked into the toy chest, setting it on fire. His parents were pissed, as were mine when they told them about it. We're lucky we didn't burn the house down." - David Hamilton

"I popped in here to write that. Same - those dang codes from back in the day." - David Hamilton

"thirded. I have a golden retriever and this brush is the greatest dog brush ever." - David Hamilton

Susan and I got a surprise when we picked up our medium pizza last night - David Hamilton

Susan and I got a surprise when we picked up our medium pizza last night - David Hamilton

"My Golden Retriever Soolin was crate trained when she was a puppy. By the time she got to be a couple of months old we had settled into a routine where she would go in the crate at night, then she would wake up in the morning when the alarm went off and I would let her out of her crate. She'd hop on the bed and we'd spend a little time bonding before I got up and got ready for work. One morning she woke up well before the alarm and was very antsy. I thought she just had to go out, so I got up to let her out of the crate but instead of heading for the door she hopped up on the bed. I climbed back under the covers. She jumped into my arms and almost instantly exploded with nasty nasty diarrhea. It got everywhere - my chest, into my lap, it soaked my down comforter, and in an effort to save the bed mattress by tearing off all the bedding, it got all over the house. It was one of the most foul experiences I've ever had. I wrote it up on my blog when it happened as 'the worstest dog story..." - David Hamilton

"http://www.gliffy.com/ web-based. It's pretty slick. I've also used Dia, which is ok: http://live.gnome.org/Dia You didn't say what OS, though I'm assuming you mean windows since you mention Visio, but if you have a mac, Omnigraffle is really great, my current fave by a long shot: http://www.omnigroup.com/applica..." - David Hamilton

Graphic adventures have made something of a comeback over the last couple of years, thanks in no small part to the success of the wonderfully funny episodic Sam and Max games, but they’re still very much a niche game genre. This wasn’t always the case – back in the 80’s graphic adventures were one of [...] - David Hamilton

I really enjoyed Modern Combat – I played through and enjoyed the single player campaign, and I played a ton of multiplayer when it came out. I also enjoyed World at War, its sequel, and still occasionally play it online. I won’t be buying the sequel. This fantastic chart over on Destructoid sums up why: this [...] - David Hamilton

"This site: http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ is for this book: http://www.pragprog.com/titles... and is a pretty great introductory 'learn to program' book. The website contains the original tutorial that led to the book. The language it uses to teach is Ruby but the principles are broadly applicable. You can run through the tutorials on his site in a day or so. http://openbookproject.net/... Uses python instead, is free online, comprehensive, and written by an educator. There's also a community site for that ebook with tons of additional material here: http://www.openbookproject.net/pybibli... Both are great ways to dip your toe in the water and get a feel for how coding works without spending any money." - David Hamilton

Did you play and love Diablo or Diablo II back in the day? Do you wish there was a modern equivalent?  If so, you can stop reading now and head over to steampowered.com. Buy yourself a copy of Torchlight for $20, and you’ll be in action rpg nirvana within a half hour or so. The same [...] - David Hamilton

clever - less interested in how accurate it is than in how it can be used to reinforce 'good' user behavior - David Hamilton

Saturday night out at the Apollo Grill in Easthampton - David Hamilton

There are multiple solutions to this scattered across the web, and there are probably better places than this to find out how to do it, but since I just went through finding out how to make this work and had to multiple google to find all the pieces of the answers I needed, I figured [...] - David Hamilton

possibly useful for the course catalog - David Hamilton

<p>I’m testing embedding a google wave into a wordpress post using the wavr plugin. The plugin dialog seems busted but hopefully the syntax still functions. If you don’t have a google wave account yet you probably won’t be able to see/interact with this.</p> - David Hamilton

more effective flash blocker for macs - David Hamilton

We should look at this as a possible model for MM, where we write an analog for this which uses MM to define members with permission. - David Hamilton

possibly useful in the piwik project if we end up having to manually insert the STATid for piwik - David Hamilton

Check out Sage’s happening hat - David Hamilton

Beautiful rainbow at the co-op - David Hamilton

"42, and when no one is looking I still go up staircases 4-5 stairs at a time. Sometimes I get a running start to take as many as I can in one leap, 6 is the best I can do these days. Makes me feel like a kid and that I haven't aged too much yet. (except that I can't take stairs down 4-5 at a time like I used to, hurts my knees too much ;-(" - David Hamilton

possibly useful as status message/community news tool, alternative to the out of the box blogging stuff we've worked with - David Hamilton

"Zero. Every month for several years now. I live within my means." - David Hamilton

Though I thought the ear loops were too large… - David Hamilton

possible netvibes style tool for our user portals - David Hamilton

Susan and I had a great Saturday. We started the day by heading north to Brattleboro, VT, where we stopped for coffee and lunch fixings at the local coop. Then we headed East on route 9 to the Pisgah State Forest in NH, where we went on a ~7 mile hike along the Pisgah Mountain [...] - David Hamilton

Mix together Jumpman, your favorite roguelike, and some inspiration from Indiana Jones, pour it into a PC and offer it up for free and you get Spelunky, a fabulous little platformer featuring retro 8-bit style graphics, rock solid platforming controls, and procedurally generated levels that are never the same. It’s a complete blast. Check out [...] - David Hamilton