Posts from June 2007

I Always Said ColdFusion Sucked

I was glad to see ColdFusion make it on this list of the top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills. It’s a ridiculous “language” that I never bothered to learn and used to tell people was craptastic and worthless when it was brand new and everybody and their mother was looking for people that knew

Happy Birthday to Me

2007 – 1973 = 34 How the hell did that happen? I could have sworn like two or three weeks ago I was just turning 30 and it was only a year or two before that I turned 21. If it wasn’t for the fact that I am happier now than I ever have been

My Wishlist

Tomorrow I will be 34 years old. This amazes me. PS: It’s not too late to get me something nice.

Improve Your AdSense

An excellent tutorial from G: AdSense Optimization Demo

Rock, Paper, Scissors at Work

Rochambeau the front line. Seth is brilliant.

A Rant about Keywords and URLs

A day or two ago I was pinged by a co-worker from my previous job. He wanted to know why, during its recent redesign, I didn’t include keywords in the URLs of the pages on a site I originally built a long, long time ago. I told him that there was no concrete evidence anywhere

Everyone Hates the War

Retired Gen. George Washington Criticizes Bush’s Handling Of Iraq War (via BrainLog)

Turning Virtual Gold into Real Cash

The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer (link via kottke)

Unwanted Software

Yesterday I became the proud new owner of a Dell D630 Latitude. Today I began the tiresome task of transferring my life from my old D610 to it. The old laptop was Anchor. (Previous computers were Budweiser, Guinness, and Corona.) The new laptop is Maui. Here is a list of the software that Dell decided

Creating Smarter Playlists

Creating Smarter Playlists

In which I explain some iTunes tricks

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.