Just turned my ballot into a box downtown. This year feels especially important, like if we get everyone we know out to vote then maybe just maybe 50.1% of the state will vote to retain our own bodily autonomy, while 49.9% vote to trample on everyone’s rights. This is my 10-15th time voting over the …
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SEO spammers wearing a printout of my face as their mask
Over the past year, I’ve cut way back on my plethora of wacky domains used on long-lost web projects. I’ve let loads of domains go and only updated the few I still use or need. As a result, most projects have been lost to the ether but there’s a good enough record of them in …
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20 Years Ago Today One day in the Spring of 1995, just a few months before I finished my undergrad degree a friend in the student computer lab leaned over my machine and said “check this out.” He double-clicked the NCSA Mosaic icon on the desktop and showed me the World Wide Web for the …
Wired Anniversary Issue
So I’m in the new WIRED issue! It was a little weird to see myself listed alongside industry giants, but I’ve been working on MetaFilter for 14 years now, so it probably aligned nicely with a 20th anniversary look back. A quick note about the short interview: we talked for 20-30min but it was edited …
RIP Papa
Let me just get this out in open right away: I was an extremely lazy and extremely whiny kid. I never liked to do anything that resembled work, I complained about everything all the time, and I quickly learned to do the minimum necessary for anything assigned to me. Aside from legos and computers, I …
It’s a me!
A few weeks ago, I got an email from a reporter at the Willamette Week, asking if I was open to an interview before MetaFilter's 12 anniversary and I said sure. Then I got a note that a photographer would pop in during our interview and take a few shots. Then hey, you're done and …
Things that suck about a cast
– You probably remember a kid in your second grade class falling off the monkey bars right before school let out for the summer and how that kid's entire summer was ruined. Turns out at age 38 that's also true. I had tons of bike rides planned, a trip to the beach, a new waterpark …
Milestone: five years without a day job
A little over five years ago, I gave my notice to my last employer, Creative Commons. I'd been waiting for the day for over a year, but even with outside income from blogging it was pretty crazy at the time. We had just bought a new house and we had a six month old baby, …
Health Month (so far)
Health Month is a new game (currently in beta) designed to help you find that ever-elusive motivation that you need to improve your health. via healthmonth.com I've been playing the Health Month beta this month and it's been a great motivator to get out of my office chair and onto my bike and into some …
New look for Haughey.com
I never know what to do with my vanity domain haughey.com ever since I moved my blog to this address in 2001. This week I scraped the old list of links to my work and updated it as a portfolio of the projects that currently take up my time. This was another quick project I sent over …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 