Scripting News: Students can run their own servers. 26 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm

I've had two academic jobs, one at Harvard and one at NYU. At Harvard, my assignment was to get a blogging program started. It was imho a big success. Harvard was the first American university to off...

Scripting News: Where "fear is frozen fun" came from. 26 Aug 2013 | 07:37 pm

Most of the mottos and slogans I use on Scripting News are either original or derived from ideas pioneered by others. But some are wholesale lifted from other people's work, which is an invocation of ...

Scripting News: How comments work on Scripting News. 25 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm

Questions about how comments work here come up from time to time. Not sure I've ever written a post to explain it, although I do sometimes answer questions in comments or via private email. Comments ...

Scripting News: A classic example of gender humor. 25 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am

Scripting News: More Breaking Bad. 24 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm

Spoilers spoilers spoilers we got spoilers! Do not read if you've not watched all of Breaking Bad! You have been warned. ;-) I'm continuing to work my way through all of Breaking Bad, it's so much be...

Scripting News: Redirecting from an S3 file. 24 Aug 2013 | 06:42 pm

I'm having no luck trying to redirect from a file stored in an S3-hosted website. I've tried doing it through the website interface, but I get a dialog saying Sorry you were denied access to do that....

Scripting News: Who does he think he is. 22 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm

This is what it should say on my gravestone. It's probably the thing people have most often said about me, although often it comes out in more demeaning and condescending ways. I'm used to it. Basic...

Scripting News: Working my way through Breaking Bad. 22 Aug 2013 | 06:14 pm

Small spoilers ahead, so beware. The best bit so far are the last two minutes of episode 13 of season 3. Walter calls Jesse. Mike has a gun pulled on Walt. You have a 20 minute head start. Go do it...

Scripting News: When in doubt... 22 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm

Good approaches when in doubt... The golden rule. Benefit of the doubt. Take people at face value. Shit happens.

A rambly piece about programming, looking forward. 22 Aug 2013 | 02:28 am

A few thoughts after a long bike ride... I don't care why there are so few women programmers. I do care that there are so few of them. I think we'd be better off if there were more. We certainly c...