Blog Archive 2011 Merry Christmas! Dec 22 2011 Professional Changes May 17 2011 2010 The Latest from Terralien May 12 2010 A Few Miscellaneous Pictures Feb 25 2010 Our Weekend Feb 24 2010 Anne Marie’s 5th birthday Feb 14 2010 2009 2009 Christmas Letter Dec 22 2009 Announcing Etan Zeal Talbott Oct 24 2009 Owning the Means of Production Jul 15 2009 How Capitalism Saves Ruby from Corporatism Jul 15 2009 The Lean Startup Primer Jun 08 2009 Nathaniel Gets Interviewed Feb 03 2009 Nathaniel at RubyRX Jan 26 2009 2008 2008 at the Talbott’s Dec 23 2008 Keynoting at acts_as_conference! Dec 17 2008 Codename MC Dec 08 2008 “Fear of Programming” at RubyConf 2008 Dec 01 2008 Mountain Retreat Aug 06 2008 120 Seconds of the Talbotts Jun 14 2008 Ruby Hoedown! Jun 11 2008 Review: Vonage Jun 10 2008 23 Hacks @ RailsConf 2008 May 31 2008 Creating Constraints May 06 2008 2007 Navigating RubyConf Oct 19 2007 Four! Announcing Elaine Grace Talbott Aug 25 2007 test/unit: A time to maintain, and a time to hand off Jun 20 2007 Sales Jeopardy! May 16 2007 Ruby Hoedown Ad May 08 2007 My RailsConf 2007 Plans May 01 2007 Ruby Hoedown! Mar 28 2007 The Railroad, Then and Now Jan 18 2007 RubyConf 2005 - Morning Day One Jan 18 2007 RubyConf 2005 - Afternoon Day One Jan 18 2007 Moved to Mephisto and Slicehost Jan 18 2007 Trying out Twitter Jan 17 2007 2006 Way Up There on the Scariness Scale… Dec 22 2006 Uncle Mark - 2007 Gift Guide & Almanac Dec 20 2006 RubyConf 2006 Talk Oct 27 2006 Blog Divergence Sep 28 2006 terralien.com Launched Jun 22 2006 QueryTrace: My First “Official” Rails Plugin May 17 2006 A Birth Announcement, Take 3 May 12 2006 Java User’s Group Talk Mar 23 2006 F1rst P4tch! Mar 07 2006 Rejection Letter - Too Harsh? Feb 22 2006 Love to Learn? Me too! Feb 22 2006 Demand for Rails Development is Real Stuff, Folks Feb 13 2006 Derailed Jan 11 2006 Safely Saving Relationships (in Rails) Jan 02 2006 2005 RailsConf Submission Dec 20 2005 A Ruby Lens Dec 16 2005 The Railroad: Mailing List Nov 12 2005 Dueling Stories at Panera Nov 12 2005 Typo MeasureMap Goodness Nov 10 2005 SuprGlu Puts the Pieces Back Together Nov 05 2005 The Railroad: Don’t Make Me Program! Oct 25 2005 The Railroad: First Round of Feedback Oct 22 2005 The Long Tail of Software Oct 22 2005 Dynamic Languages Quote Oct 21 2005 RubyConf Day 3 - Blathering Oct 17 2005 RubyConf Day 2 - Heckling Oct 16 2005 RubyConf Day 1 - Sidechannels Oct 15 2005 RubyConf Day 1 Notes Oct 15 2005 RubyConf Day 0 Oct 14 2005 On Being Different Oct 04 2005 Teaching Worldview Sep 19 2005 iPod Aug 29 2005 Nifty cmd.exe Trick Aug 25 2005 Programming Languages: Freedom vs. Safety Aug 24 2005 Romantic Ruby Aug 23 2005 Rails… in a Desktop App? Aug 17 2005 Business Math Aug 17 2005 Kids these days Aug 15 2005 Ruby Zealotry Aug 13 2005 Google: Drawing a Blank Aug 10 2005 Blast from the Past Aug 07 2005 Upgrade Complete Aug 06 2005 Almost upgrade time Aug 05 2005 What about when you’re 50? Aug 04 2005 Paul Graham on the Employer-Employee Relationship Aug 04 2005 You, too, can be a Google Jul 28 2005 Shhh! Don’t tell Katie! Jul 28 2005 Resting Jul 27 2005 Other Rest Cycles Jul 27 2005 The One-Two Punch Jul 25 2005 RubyConf or Bust Jul 23 2005 Go Apple Go! Jul 19 2005 Wisdom Isn’t Always Pleasant Jul 15 2005 Getting Paid to do Rails? Jul 14 2005 Cool Firefox Tip: Clean the Drop-Down Jul 14 2005 raleigh.rb Meeting Tomorrow Night Jul 13 2005 A Birth Announcement… Feb 14 2005 Talbott update Feb 09 2005 Wow! Who woulda thunk it? Jan 11 2005 2004 Cool IM service Nov 16 2004 A different perspective on Iraq Nov 10 2004 It’s got to be here somewhere! Nov 05 2004 Philosophy Nov 02 2004 Grand Opening Oct 30 2004 May / June update Jun 19 2004 April 2004 post - It’s about time! Apr 14 2004 2003 A Talbott Update Sep 15 2003 Gift ideas for Reuben Aug 10 2003 Message From the Mamma Jul 21 2003 Announcing Reuben Blakely Talbott Jul 07 2003 A News Update On the Talbotts Jun 02 2003 Home Sweet Home May 16 2003 Alive and well in NC Apr 09 2003 My first big test at being Nathaniel’s wife … can I cook a steak??? Jan 23 2003 Don’t panic! Jan 13 2003 2002 Not at this Address Dec 02 2002 Working on Test::Unit again Nov 21 2002 The next version of the Talbott OS is on the way! Nov 21 2002 And they lived happily ever after. The end… of the beginning. Oct 30 2002 Just in time to leave… Oct 08 2002 Yes we are still alive! Sep 24 2002 From the FiancĂ© Sep 02 2002 I John vs. Lamentations Jul 31 2002 How to put this… Jul 30 2002 Coming and Going Jun 30 2002 Where’d he go? Jun 10 2002 Views of the UK May 26 2002 Cruising Altitude May 13 2002 See you on the other side… May 10 2002 Things have a way of happening really, really fast May 09 2002 Of Thoughts Deep May 07 2002 Weekends gone by… May 05 2002 Why I Like Riding the Underground; Or, Books I’ve Read Recently Apr 28 2002 Check out the pretty pictures! Apr 20 2002 Journey to the other side of the pond Apr 19 2002 I finally have internet access! Woohoo! Apr 17 2002 Pardon me while I scream… Mar 30 2002 Well, chaps, it’s finally happened! Mar 21 2002 Three reviews for the price of none Mar 16 2002 Mercy and Justice Mar 15 2002 “If you aim at nothing… Mar 12 2002 Who put glue on the cover? Mar 11 2002 Currently on the stack Mar 10 2002 What to write, what to write? Mar 07 2002 So much for Swig Feb 28 2002 Child Abandonment Strikes Again! Feb 28 2002 What happened? Feb 23 2002 Test::Unit 0.1.0 out! Feb 23 2002 Fear == Strong Confidence? Feb 14 2002 Swigging SWT Feb 13 2002 A Full-scale Invasion Feb 13 2002 And away we go! Feb 12 2002