Beautiful Evidence

June 29th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Books, Tech Stuff |
A Review of the New Vol­ume by Edward Tufte

Hot off the presses for 2006, the guru of intel­li­gent pre­sen­ta­tion has issued his fourth full-size volume.

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Joomla, Son of Mambo

June 27th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Has any­one here used this pack­age? (sounds of crick­ets chirp­ing.) The “inter­est­ing” thing (inter­est­ing used here in the sense your doc­tor might use it. “Hm, this is inter­est­ing”) about this is that there’s vir­tu­ally no doc­u­men­ta­tion. Sure there are dis­cus­sion forums, FAQ pages, tuto­ri­als… but get­ting down to the nitty gritty of “what is this, […]

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A New Book Arrives…

June 23rd, 2006 | 0 Comments | Books, Tech Stuff |

…and the house is buzzing with excite­ment. Brandy, meet Max; Max, Brandy.
Brandy with the new book

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It Doesn’t Get Much Stranger Than This

June 22nd, 2006 | 0 Comments | Uncategorized |

Flash can be used for good or for … really weird stuff.

Do not open this link at work with the sound on. Your boss look­ing over your shoul­der at the danc­ing pink french-fry will be the least of your problems.

You’re wel­come!

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Hacking A Newsfeed

June 21st, 2006 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Debug like it’s 1999. In which the author takes a vin­tage javascript news­feed (vin­tage but still pub­lished) and con­verts most of it over into a doc­u­ment object model ver­sion. Not like you’d want to do this when there’s an XML ver­sion available…

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Frozen Lemonade

June 19th, 2006 | Comments Off | Food |

Aaaaah … Brainfreeze!

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Delenda Est Junky Hardware

June 19th, 2006 | 6 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Was this wrong? I pulled this wireless/ethernet bridge out of the closet after a few months, and after strug­gling with it on three dif­fer­ent com­put­ers, I still couldn’t get it to do any­thing. The con­fig­u­ra­tion screen wouldn’t come up on at default IP address, it didn’t show up on the net­work, and the reset button […]

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Summer Rolls In…

June 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Home |

…in a big way, with a cou­ple of days in the upper 80s on tap. One good thing about the heat, my roses are in their peak.

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Battle of the Bands

June 13th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Music |

One of M/SO’s lead­ing musi­cians has posted video, and lots of it, from a num­ber of recent per­for­mances. Don’t miss the excit­ing 2006 show, with Emo­tional Rex’s, well, emo­tional return.

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Gyorgy Ligeti

June 12th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Music |

One of the great 20th cen­tury com­posers, dead today in Vienna at age 83. When I was first get­ting inter­ested in seri­ous music back in high school, I was drawn to the avant garde. Ligeti was an imme­di­ate inter­est because of his con­tri­bu­tions to 2001, A Space Odyssey. Fre­quently I had this LP out of […]

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Blog Security

June 12th, 2006 | 1 Comment | Tech Stuff |

I’ve got this page set up so that any first posts from users have to be approved before they go live. This may or may not be a good idea, and may or may not be even necessary…but once you’ve been approved by me you’re set for life.

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Dear Diary…

June 11th, 2006 | 1 Comment | Uncategorized |

Wel­come to the new blog. As my friend Anthony Car­touche over at Waf­fle Ass says, there’s a short­age of them today; I’m glad to be doing my part. Also, I’ve posted a new page, a cap­sule mini-review of Bad Twin, a spin­off of the TV series Lost.

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