Jul 25, 2002
I disabled comments when I first posted this weblog as the W3C complained about an ampersand in an URL to the Javascript source file for comments. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out where the <%commentLink%> macro was located in Radio.root. However, thanks to Adam Curry and his
Jul 25, 2002
I’m not sure how expensive this puppy is, but it looks like a great solution to the large and loud desktops out there. Having read the reviews of the Shuttle SS51’s predecessors, this would be my machine of choice if I were to get another PC. The Shuttle series machines are small, quiet, can … Read more
Jul 24, 2002
After a day or so of diddling Radio, I now have a weblog which adheres to HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS2. Special thanks goes out to the following:
Bryce’s Radio Experiments for details on where Radio stores its scripts.
Jul 22, 2002
Rather than use the Radio themes provided, I thought I’d make my own. You see, I hate tables and the provided templates use them as if they are in danger of going out of style. I also love standards and the aforementioned templates did not even comply with HTML 4.01 Transitional as advertised in their … Read more
Stephen Worth, Director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, recently did a guest-blogger spot on Boing Boing where he featured over a dozen music-related clips. Each clip is a breadcrumb to DVDs, CDs and other links which an interested reader should review. Worth’s point, and I share this view, is that even the recent past contains … Read more
My experience at a past company closely reflected the first few slides in this presentation. Ops and development didn’t seem to trust or respect each other. Ops resisted new code because they’d been bit by bad code before, and development didn’t think ops were doing their jobs properly. Thankfully, I was a developer who had … Read more
The heartbreaking story of the rise and fall of Jerry, “The World’s Most Human Chimp”, as raised by Jack Dutton. Jerry became popular after Dutton noticed that Disneyland was to be built right near his orange grove. Dutton built his own jungle theme park with Jerry as the main attraction.
“Ipredator gives you an encrypted tunnel and changes your public IP-number to an anonymous one.” The service is subscription, € 15 for 3 months. Not bad for secure private internet. Or I could set up my own VPN. Why haven’t I done that yet?
Great quote from 1978 movie The Driver. Also sampled in Funki Porcini’s “The Deep”. Someone pulling this line out after hearing some sad sack tale would be a jerk. A jerk, I tells ya. Filing this for later.