Linking

these Luigi Colani designs are awesome. how planes were meant to be » « 13:37 06/01/09 | permalink | colani design technology industrial aircraft future

a great visual bathroom guide from passive-aggressive notes » « 21:55 23/12/08 | permalink

relinking yet again - the uk motorway map in the style of harry beck's tube map. genius » « 15:20 19/12/08 | permalink

give up and use tables. 47 minutes seems fair. why have i never seen this before? » « 15:19 19/12/08 | permalink | css webdesign tables funny html

game damage is the new show from the zero punctuation fellow. not too bad. maybe it'll get better. who knows » « 23:39 17/12/08 | permalink

my song colors are a bit busted. wonder if there's an XSS bug if you listen to certain music... » « 09:38 15/12/08 | permalink | music visualization

wow now has paid sex-changes, and they're much cheaper than the real thing. this pay-for-addons model is great for players and blizzard alike » « 11:00 12/12/08 | permalink | games wow

uke + kazoo + piano = best. and + final countdown = win » « 23:11 07/12/08 | permalink

this bow shoot witches instead of arrows » « 16:41 05/12/08 | permalink | comic

songbird finally goes 1.0. congrats guys! » « 14:25 02/12/08 | permalink | music software player opensource mozilla

tasty but so evil? bacon hitler intrigues and does not disappoint » « 01:31 25/11/08 | permalink | bacon hitler via-darrenshrubsole

this demo video shot on red is absolutely gorgeous. i need red » « 14:37 24/11/08 | permalink | video photography video hd camera technology red skateboard

learn how to say bacon in american sign language. thanks kelsey » « 13:20 21/11/08 | permalink | via-kelsey bacon asl

the septic's companion (a guide to british words, for americans) has a book out. it's pretty good. buy it for your seppo friends » « 13:58 20/11/08 | permalink | books language

has anyone played any of the bigpoint games? are they any good? » « 14:52 19/11/08 | permalink | online games flash

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does anyone have a spare Spotify token? :)

Tweeting

Happy 2009, idiots »

Working?

hamster: better send that to tech
2009-01-06 17:27:51

simon: bumpity
2009-01-06 17:27:51

simon: bumpity
2009-01-06 17:27:46

Seeing

Maple Story IMG_0507 IMG_0505 branded meats IMG_0502 IMG_0501 k'nex dead downed illidan illdari council 50 pets mexx so much chocolate honored citizen

Listening

My Favorite Things     My Favorite Things

Played 3 hours ago
By Julie Andrews, From The Sound of Music

Reading

The Explainer
They Call Me Naughty Lola: Personal Ads from the London Review of Books
Omega Games: A Stardoc Novel
The Possibility of an Island
 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
Saturn's Children
Reading the OED
Halting State
The Gone-Away World
Snuff

About

This is the personal site of Cal Henderson, Flickr architect, PHP programmer, author and chronic complainer.

I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles. I'm on the advisory board for vitamin, which i also write for. I post links at Surfstation, but they show up here too.

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Books

My book, "Building Scalable Web Sites" is now shipping:

» Amazon.com
» Amazon.co.uk
» Amazon.ca
» O'Reilly Catalog
» Reviews
» Translations: Japanese, Chinese

Talks

You can see slides for some past talks here.
I don't currently have any upcoming talks - you can get slides for some past talks here.
Want me to speak at your conference or user group? Drop me a note and let's talk.

WoW

Level 80 Hunter
Bees
80 Hunter
Officer in The Eternal

Achievements: 3495 points (333/745)

 
Within Our Grasp (2009-01-07)
 
Heroic: Besting the Black Dragonflight (2009-01-07)
 
Wintergrasp Victory (2009-01-03)
 
Heroic: Archavon the Stone Watcher (2009-01-02)
 
The Black Temple (2009-01-01)