Whether it’s alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, porn, sex, gambling, eating co-dependency or a bad temper; if you’ve tried to stop and can’t; if it’s affecting your life in a negative way, then you may have an addiction. You may have spent years in therapy with little to show for it, or tried other methods to no [...]
Welcome to my site, my name is Ara.
I'm a web developer, an
author
Twitter FTW: or how after 10,543 tweets Twitter actually came in handy
For those who may not know, I work for Yahoo! remotely. As such, my development box is 4,795 km (2,980 miles) to the west of me. Now, this isn’t normally a problem, except for today when my box decided to stop responding. And if you don’t believe in Murphy’s Law, today was also Presidents Day [...]
Stoyan’s Performance Advent Calendar And Me
Stoyan Stefanov decided to release a post a day during the advent season in an effort to bolster our budding performance community.
He was kind enough to let me participate, not once but twice! My first contribution was called, JavaScript Loading Strategies and my second, which is out today is called, Extreme Performance Optimization.
I hope you [...]
Analogy
I feel like someone gave me the keys to the NASA shuttle hangar and I’m trying to figure out how to get into the darn shuttle in order to replace an arm rest. To say nothing of the custom NASA screwdriver I’ll have to use to do the job… and I don’t even know where [...]
Intentional Causality
I just watched another one of those “Biblical mysteries explained” documentaries where they explained how the cities of Sodom and Gommorah were actually destroyed as the result of an asteroid hitting Europe and the subsequent fallout.
The science was interesting, and the show seemed to take an almost apologetic approach toward the faithful as if [...]
