Five Years 22 Aug 2013 | 12:38 am

Today I’ve been an Automattic employee for five years. I started writing a whole long post about it, but cleared it out. Later. For now: five years. Jeezum Crow, that’s a long time.

Sandwich Song 21 Aug 2013 | 12:49 pm

In my teenage years I worked at a hiking lodge run by the best bunch of outdoorsy liberal hippies ever. We used to sing to wake up the guests (the morning we did Psycho Killer was the best), and the f...

Automatticians at WordCamps 20 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm

Automattic is getting pretty big, almost 200 folks now, spread all over the world. That’s a lot of people we can send to WordCamps. I remember when it was mostly Matt and I splitting up who’d go to wh...

WCPDX 2013 Slides 20 Aug 2013 | 04:20 am

Doctor Who’s a Dude; Get Over It 8 Aug 2013 | 11:11 pm

I’m nerd enough that I watched the announcement of who would be playing Doctor Who once Matt Smith leaves the role after this year’s Christmas Special. Like others, I followed along in the weeks prece...

Organizer Breakfast at WCSF 28 Jul 2013 | 04:55 am

If you currently organize a local WordPress meetup or WordCamp in your town, let’s have breakfast together tomorrow! 8:30 am at The Grove. Andrea Middleton and I will both be there, so new organizers ...

Bye, O’Malley 26 Jul 2013 | 11:30 pm

I’m at WordCamp San Francisco right now. I just talked on the phone to my mother, who’s been taking care of my cats during this trip (CLS, team meetup, OSCON, WCSF), and I’m sad to say that O’Malley w...

Moving Soonish 17 Jul 2013 | 12:47 am

Hi. Here’s the official announcement. I’m going to be moving back to Portland (OR, not ME)  within the next couple of months. I have my Tybee place until the end of October, so if anyone wants to come...

Appropriate Words 23 Jun 2013 | 09:47 pm

or, Being Sensitive and the End of Wheaton’s Law. [Note: This post was originally going to be titled Meaning vs. Intent; or, Why Sensitive Language Is Hard but Important, but I forgot I already had a...

We Need a New Study 20 Jun 2013 | 07:47 pm

or, Expedience vs. Accuracy I’m at Open Source Bridge this week — one of my favorite conferences — and less then 2 weeks age I was at AdaCamp SF, which was also great. Both events involve a lot of peo...