In my eternal pursuit of total organization, I’m often faced with the task of filing/saving truly miscellaneous information that I may not need later, but had a hell of a time coming across to begin with. You discover some oddball fact that you’ve wondered about for years (and are happy to finally know), but the future usefulness of this data is, well, questionable at best.

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In addition to being a professional computer geek, I’m also something of an armchair coffee connoisseur. I roast my own coffee at home and have a pretty respectable collection of preparation/brewing tools that get some pretty heavy use. I also managed a coffeehouse for a spell when I was younger, so I’ve got some experience [...]

I’m a real all-or-nothing kind of guy. If I discover a new band or musician that I like, I’ll immediately acquire everything they’ve made (which may explain my subconscious aversion to The Beatles, but I digress). So it would follow that I would sleep better knowing that my capture methods were truly ubiquitous; that I [...]

A couple nuggets I picked up while spending a year writing a custom credit card processing gateway from scratch (pro tip: avoid doing this if you can). Short Version is you should always walk inside and pay the attendant instead of paying at the pump, here’s why (long version):