Ciulla's Blog http://www.ciulla.org/blog a mostly-ignored time sink Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:19:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to Pronounce “Ciulla” http://www.ciulla.org/blog/2012/03/02/how-to-pronounce-ciulla/ http://www.ciulla.org/blog/2012/03/02/how-to-pronounce-ciulla/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:19:41 +0000 Chris http://www.ciulla.org/blog/?p=62 While reviewing my keyword stats, I noticed there were two hits for “pronouncing ciulla”.

My family pronounces it “chew lah” with slightly more emphasis on the “chew”.

“Don’cha mean heavy emphasis on the chew?” Fnar, fnar, fnar. Everyone’s a comedian.

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]]> Just called Representative Steve Stivers, Senator Sherrod Brown, and Senator Rob Portman to ask them, politely, to pull their heads out of their collective asses regarding SOPA and PIPA.

Representative Stivers and Senator Brown’s voice mail boxes were full.

I briefly discussed PIPA with a harried, over-worked call monkey at Senator Portman’s office who took down my contact information.

That probably put me on a list, so if I get whisked away in the middle of the night, you guys will know what happened. Thank you, NDAA.

Anyway, if you are a technologist or use technology, please let our bastions of “for the people, by the people” know that you are pissed.

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Measure twice, cut once.

]]> http://www.ciulla.org/blog/2011/09/07/measure-twice-cut-once/feed/ 0 Why Should I Have a “Contact Me” Link on My Site? http://www.ciulla.org/blog/2011/09/01/why-should-i-have-a-contact-me-link-on-my-site/ http://www.ciulla.org/blog/2011/09/01/why-should-i-have-a-contact-me-link-on-my-site/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:18:33 +0000 Chris http://www.ciulla.org/blog/?p=27 Read more »

]]> Best practice for websites — have an immediately noticeable means for your readers to contact you.

Blogroll
A list of other blogs that a blogger might recommend by providing links to them (usually in a sidebar list).

Teri, she who is my wife, has bookmarked a TON of foodie sites.

While reading Cooking Stuff, she was redirected to a scummy “Hey, this site is for sale” landing page.

After hearing her disgusted grunt, I took a look at it.

Turns out Cooking Stuff uses a now-defunct blogroll service, Blogrolling.

Poking around, I found the folks who own the Blogrolling domain, Tucows, have done something really distasteful — after about 15 seconds, the blogroll script redirects the browser to the landing page.

This is hella-confusing for Cooking Stuff’s demographic.

In an attempt to be discreet, I tried to contact “Bob,” the blogger who runs Cooking Stuff… And there’s no “Contact Me” link. So, I had to leave a comment letting him (and the world) know there’s a problem with his site.

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Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining it is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

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Effectuating Change Since 2009

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Nine women cannot have a baby in one month.

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The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. ~Fred Brooks

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If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? ~John Wooden

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Some days, you narfle the garthok. Other days, the garthok narfles you.

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