Very good Javascript date parsing and formatting library

As a wise man named Norm once said, “20% of this job is slave labor — enjoy the rest!”

New Year’s perspective

Wonderful thinking about reading

More of the tutorial.

Part of a [slowly] ongoing series

I wish I hadn’t had to find this page during dinner!

More dinner-time investigation.

More things to know….

How to be creative — more meat here than in a number of books!

Link from @yourdon via Twitter

3000 years of art in under 3 minutes. I remember a US History video, too, but can’t find it so far.

I’m pretty sure I remember “American Time Capsule” from the Smothers Brothers, though I’ve conflated it with the art flim I bookmarked earlier, since I thought it went with “Classical Gas” and that doesn’t seem to be the case.

why twitter works, why it doesn’t, how to use it more smartly

I’m glad I picked up a new copy of XP when I needed to upgrade our Windows system. And it’s less expensive than Vista, too!

The best Excel reader I’ve found for Python — doesn’t use COM under the covers

Oh, my! The only bad point is that when I first brought it up, I saw all of the tasks I’d abandoned in RTM!

Seems like a reasonable idea…

The full version, in classic unframed HTML. The only way it could be better would be to have it all on one page.

“Being able to write clearly on technical topics is the difference between being a grunt individual contributor programmer and being a leader.” Amen, brother!

Development site for the next generation of Firebug