Category Archives: Rants

A little bit of Stack Overflow irony

July 8, 2012 – 7:59 pm

This isn’t all that important of a post, but the circumstances were a little bit shocking at first and then at least mildly entertaining to me, so I figure I’ll write down the story. Sometime in the last week or so, I crossed the 10k reputation threshold on Stack Overflow. I’ve had my eye on [...]

By Scott Blomquist | Also posted in Web | Comments (0)

Minimum lengths for usernames. Wtf?!

November 20, 2008 – 8:05 pm

I get bitten all the time with minimum username length requirements. The most common number that I bump up against is 6 characters, probably because my usual username is 5 characters so I wouldn’t hear about requirements of 4 or 5, and it’s obvious to everyone that requiring 7 or 8 characters is silly. But [...]

By Scott Blomquist | Also posted in Technology, Web | Tagged , , | Comments (10)

TSA "Black Diamond" dumbness

July 14, 2008 – 7:00 am

Despite how obnoxious they make the airport security experience, I try extremely hard to give the Transportation Security Administration a fair shake–I remind myself they’re mostly normal people who get searched when they fly just like the rest of us, I read their well-written and mostly credible propaganda blog, and I sit on my rants [...]

By Scott Blomquist | Also posted in Airlines | Tagged , , , , | Comments (4)