Being raised by a bibliophibian from a family of teachers and a recording engineer/radio DJ, books and music were ubiquitous in my household. I became an adult around the time that the Internet was hitting its stride as an endless repository of digital media, but I've still got an emotional attachment to physical media and the "save everything" ( Read more... )

Overcoming frustration and fighting through problems that seem like they should be simple (like architecture mismatches between database driver and server) is par for the course when programming. But taking my MacBook apart to stop the track pad from dragging items all over the place? That's uncalled for.