San Francisco from Hill 88
Updated on Monday, September 6, 2021
I Thought He Came With You (ITHCWY) is Robert Ellison's blog.
LEGO Management
Updated on Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Good HBR article on LEGO and girls: LEGO’s Girl Problem Starts with Management, depressing conclusion:
"Don’t hold your breath, though. Despite its first-day sold-out success, LEGO has decided not to continue the Research Institute line. It was only a “limited edition.” So girls, back to the pool. The guys in this boardroom don’t seem to want to give you any ideas… let alone seats at the table."
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(Published to the Fediverse as: LEGO Management #marketing #lego #girls More on LEGO's girl problem (it starts with management). )
Autumnal Equinox 2014
Updated on Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Autumn starts now in the northern hemisphere, Spring in the southern. Rendered in Catfood Earth (Windows, Android).
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Autumnal Equinox 2014 #code #earth #equinox #autumnal The exact moment of Autumnal Equinox 2014 rendered in Catfood Earth. )
Sunset sunset
Updated on Saturday, February 19, 2022
Sunset over the Sunset district in San Francisco. There is also the start of moonset at the start of the video and then clouds roll in and, unusually, out before the sun goes down.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Sunset sunset #timelapse #sanfrancisco #sunset #moonset #video Time lapse of sunset over the Sunset District in San Francisco, California. )
Cable Car Museum
Updated on Thursday, November 12, 2015
Worth a visit. When I first moved to San Francisco I assumed that the cable cars were the type that go up mountains rather than a cunning way to drag trolleys up hills.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Cable Car Museum #photo #muni Photo of the Cable Car Museum in action (San Francisco, California). )
Please Stay
Updated on Wednesday, February 22, 2017
My Scottish Grandmother would always tell me off if I said I was English instead of British. She also said it was better to be moving in the wrong direction rather than standing still in the right one. That mostly applied to navigating traffic, but I think it's true for Scotland as well. Help make the UK better and don't become small and stagnant and some sort of irrelevant bland euro-region.
And if you do go then this.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Please Stay #politics #scotland I don't get a vote, but I'm a quarter Scottish and I think Scotland should remain part of the United Kingdom. )
Minify and inline CSS for ASP.NET MVC
Updated on Wednesday, April 28, 2021
ASP.NET has a CssMinify class (and a JavaScript variant as well) designed for use in the bundling pipeline. But what if you want to have your CSS minified and inline? Here is an action that is working for me (rendered into a style tag on my _Layout.cshtml using @Html.Action("InlineCss", "Home")).
Note that I'm using this to inline CSS for this blog. The pages are cached so I'm not worried about how well this action performs. My blog is also basically all landing pages so I'm also not worried about caching a non-inline version for later use, I just drop all the CSS on every page.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Minify and inline CSS for ASP.NET MVC #code #asp.net #mvc #css #inline #minify How to use ASP.NET MVC bundles to inline CSS and JavaScript for high performing landing pages. )
Book reviews for July 2014
Updated on Friday, February 24, 2017
![Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability & Science of Customer Centricity [With CDROM] by Avinash Kaushik](https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1400843475s/6867604.jpg)
Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability & Science of Customer Centricity [With CDROM] by Avinash Kaushik
5/5
Deep, evergreen advice on web analytics. This book is grounded in the trenches and is full of practical advice and reality. Works well to read all the way through and to dip into for specific topics.
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi
5/5
Barnstorming tirade against injustice in the US law enforcement and legal systems. Nothing in here was news to me, but laid out story after story it's breathtaking. Minor welfare infractions leading to jail time, institutionalized fraud ignored. Banks get away with money laundering and theft while in some places standing on the street is a crime. Once you've worked up a full head of rage you realize that Obama is as bad as Bush is nearly as bad as Clinton. The failure is in politics and this book is a depressing catalog of the symptoms.
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Tedious Feed Update
Updated on Wednesday, February 22, 2017
If you subscribe to I Thought He Came With You via RSS please switch to this new feed and delete the old one.
Longer version... this blog has used FeedBurner for ever but I managed to get locked out a couple of years ago. I upgraded to Google Apps for Domains and part of the process was transitioning various services over to a temporary account and then back to the new one. Most of them made it over but FeedBurner got orphaned somehow.
I've emailed, left forum posts etc but no luck. Google doesn't really do customer service so despite actually paying them I seem to be out of luck. Also, Google hates RSS so FeedBurner probably isn't the right long term tool even if I could get back into my account.
I've been meaning to do something about this for a while but as it was working it wasn't a top priority. This changed when my blog got hacked a couple of times in a row - I'm not sure if it was the software (I'd been using BlogEngine.net) or my hosting provider but it's painful to fix and I decided I needed a change. I Thought I Came From You is now running on a home grown platform. It should be more stable, faster (some quick benchmarking suggests twice as fast so far) and not get hacked quite so often.
So switch to http://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/syndication.axd for updates (I can't recommend Feedly highly enough) and delete the old feed. If you have any problems leave a comment below or send me an email.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Tedious Feed Update #etc #rss #feed #google #feedburner The I Thought He Came With You RSS feed has moved. Get the new RSS feed here. )
Bay Bridge, Old And New
Updated on Saturday, October 1, 2022
Photo of the new span of the Bay Bridge next to the partially demolished old span from the San Francisco Bay.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Bay Bridge, Old And New #photo #baybridge Photo of both eastern spans of the Bay Bridge - the new one and the partially demolished old one. San Francisco Bay, California. )
