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Congressmen & Congresswomen, Missouri Department of Transportation, Governor, Mayor of St. Louis &c,
The service cuts implemented by Metro yesterday illustrate how harmful the actions of MDOT & the Missouri government have been to the health and vitality of public transportation in St. Louis.
Really, the fact that our neighboring state of Illinois funds public transportation at [...]

In decreasing order of abstraction:

Invisible Cinema by Aaron Parks
Lay It Down by Al Green
Avatar by Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Limits of the Sky by The Bridges*
The Voice of Lightness by Tabu Ley Rochereau
The ‘59 Sound by The Gaslight Anthem
At Mount Zoomer by Wolf Parade
An Ocean Between Us by As I Lay Dying*
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Smallest blog posts: now on Twitter. I’ll get around to adding my tweets to the sidebar soon. WP 1.5 broke my layout editor.Smallest thing done at work that I’m proud of: refactored nasty error page only a programmer could love (Look Ma, a stack trace in 18pt Courier bold!) into a quiet, reassuring css-based error [...]

I think I may become a Michael Pollan groupie. And we are definitely starting a vegetable garden. My burning question, though, is whether to buy the über-composter, with its German-engineered rollers and “compost tea” collector and primo price tag, or go DIY and face the consequences. Is it ridiculous to even have a $160 composter [...]

Bolton, beware. The MLS Player’s Association leaked player salaries for the fourth straight year, and it’s time to assemble the traditional starting 11 of underpaid MLS players who could easily match a mid-table Premiership side for a staggering $798,899 (last time it was $875,288). Somebody give these guys a raise so that they can [...]

We’ve been trying to use Scrum to manage our software development for the last six months. It’s work as far as we have let it (or as far as others let it), and I’m slowly clueing in to what should raise red flags in my Scrummified brain. Recently the customer (chicken!) requested to schedule a [...]