Here's my dream: somebody figures out how to use the salt left over from desalination to sequester atmospheric carbon!

Certain things should be deal breakers that kinda make every sane person run away, and you lose all their business.. Like, say, not supporting easy bulk/api downloads?!

I know that usability and UX have some subjective components to them. But I feel like I live on a planet where the people who make the majority of the software are just insanely wrong in their choices.

Like the horrendous "Switcher" in IntelliJ derived editors. Or, anything to do with 'settings' in said ides.

I hereby release my genius idea into the public domain: Kind of like, "why don't they make the entire airplane out of that black box material, then?", how about we make the fan be the computer? So I don't ever have to hear my work macbook getting supa loud on the fans while compiling or whatever, the entire inside is just a fan that is always going. See, the blades of the fan would be computing blades.

Buddhist soap box moment: Find the Thanks in anything and everything, no matter how seemingly hugely bad the situation is, and no matter how infinitesimally atomically painfully small the silver lining might be.

One of the worst curses you could end up with (well, only in the 1st world problems kind of sense) is to understand enough about UX, software development, and security - all three, all at the same time - so that you can viscerally grok the complete hell weasel jerk ineptitude of the 3 credit reporting agencies.

Backups are important. But they are also a freaking lie, all too often. Who watches the watchers?

Things to be thankful for: Farmers' markets. Fair trade chocolate. Fair trade tea. The invention of peanut butter. Whoever maintains Debian, and Ubuntu. The power companies keeping in the lights on (for the most part). A/C. Fresh cooked falafel. The art of typography. Real books. Dim sum. Mechanical pencils. The remaining bananas before the bananapocolypse. Alternative milks (just not soy). Desktops that have an inverse-video mode. Battery technology. Manual transmission cars with sunroofs. Burritos (gringo). Tamales. Chicken tortilla soup. Pho. Banh mi. Bi bim bop. Unagi. Bicycles. Gears in general. Fish and chips circa 1985 (uh yeah too rapacious, in retrospect). 8 bit computers. Shmups. Public libraries.

But... not Bloger, so much.