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Hi, I'm Ian Beck. I like to make things, such as websites, fiction, and delicious pancakes.

DecemberDec 2 Wednesday Wed 09

Learning to love the one-off ExpressionEngine plugins for things like pre-parsing custom XML and displaying via EE template language.

updated 10 hours ago via Twitter

Good thing I've got an old copy of the EE documentation squirreled away locally for use with Coda's books feature.

updated 14 hours ago via Twitter

Oh, good grief ExpressionEngine. Could you not have waited until people don't need to access your docs before you took your site down?

updated 14 hours ago via Twitter

Man, this XML developer is killing me. Gives me a feed with tons of duplicate info, then uses a weird timestamp that strtotime can't handle.

updated 14 hours ago via Twitter

Arg, I've written code for this problem before but I can't remember for which project. Looks like I have to write it again, which is lame.

updated 15 hours ago via Twitter

DecemberDec 1 Tuesday Tue 09

Man, absolute deluge of spammy Twitter followers today. Wish there were an easier way to block them than going one by one.

updated 2 days ago via Twitter

Adium must have been hanging out with the Adobe apps recently. "Adium unexpectedly quit" dialog right after I hit command-Q.

updated 2 days ago via Twitter

Wish more of the people I know on Facebook used Twitter instead. Their day-to-day thoughts/adventures interest me. Facebook does not.

updated 2 days ago via Twitter

Interesting; Twitter appears to be highlighting tweets with the word "AIDS" in them in red today on their website. Gotta say, that's classy.

updated 2 days ago via Twitter

Apparently some of my coworkers don't understand the amount of my time they waste by leaving questions unanswered in Campfire. Annoying.

updated 2 days ago via Twitter

The web is about tradeoffs between feasibility and budget that I carefully explain to clients. Why then do they keep expecting miracles?

updated 2 days ago via Twitter

Of all my various clients' webhosts, PowWeb has got to be the most incompetent of the lot.

updated 2 days ago via Twitter

Socialite feels a lot more polished than EventBox, but the user interactions still drive me up the wall. Why doesn't tab shift focus again?

updated 2 days ago via Twitter

NovemberNov 30 Monday Mon 09

Unless you're related by blood, are someone I'd hang out with on a weekend, or your site is completely broken, DON'T CALL ME AFTER 6:00.

updated 3 days ago via Twitter

Both computer and XBox games hurt my eyes after a while, but at least the XBox means I'm sitting in a different chair.

updated 3 days ago via Twitter

The main problem I've had completing Avernum games recently is that I find it much harder to complete computer games compared to XBox ones.

updated 3 days ago via Twitter

Avernum 6 is out! I don't think I finished either 4 or 5 (thanks to my attention span, or lack thereof), but I might have to buy it anyway.

updated 3 days ago via Twitter

In the EE forums: "Query strings passed to the homepage are misinterpreted as the first URL segment." "That's a feature request." Uh, what?

updated 3 days ago via Twitter

I guarantee the second bullet point for Structure's "what's new in 2.0" list took them maybe 10 minutes. Because that's the code I wrote.

updated 3 days ago via Twitter

Awesome. Structure 2.0 uses some code I created for Structure 1 and shared with the devs without crediting me at all. Thanks, guys.

updated 3 days ago via Twitter

NovemberNov 29 Sunday Sun 09

Pagination on my One Crayon news page is broken; I'm looking into it. Appears to be some problem with Structure listings.

updated 4 days ago via Twitter

Man, where are my Xbox live friends? I'm itching for some Left 4 Dead (it's been days!), but they haven't been on all weekend.

updated 4 days ago via Twitter

Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese is decent and has some hilarious sections, but is no Good Omens. Can't beat the price on Kindle, though.

updated 4 days ago via Twitter

Brilliant: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/smalltalkq Going to have to try that question for myself; I'm so bad at starting small talk.

updated 4 days ago via Twitter

Ok, it's official; Concentrate gets a spot on my Dock. Was unexpectedly useful for easily jumping into and focusing on writing.

updated 4 days ago via Twitter

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