Zen and the Art of Software Design
I am currently reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig and it has been chock-full of philosophical insights. One passage in particular jumped out at me due to its simple, …
Bad Microsoft
This is not good at all. And just as Microsoft was gaining some amount of respect as being a secure platform.
New Channel
I’ve decided that I want to balance out the technical side of brain with something more artistic so I’ve decided to learn how to draw. I spend the majority of the day programming in PHP …
jQuery: a new joy
At work, I have been working on somewhat complex site with a lot of Javascript going on in the form of some ajax calls and Google Maps. We noticed that the site had an almost painful load time, …
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings fully embracing their vibe
This music video is great. You’d honestly believe you were watching some band perform on some American Bandstand type show in the early 60’s.
Pumped about PBS
Wilco is going to be on Austin City Limits tomorrow night. I’m pumped.
Sort of want it, but have no need for it...
ASUS Eee PC Well it appears that newegg.com has gotten in their inventory of the new ASUS Eee PC. This thing is sweet, but a little pricy for what you are getting. The main draw of this is that it has …
Finally, rain
We got a quick, 5 minute shower last night and nothing more. Then, this morning the sky looked very threatening and within minutes on my way to work it started pouring. It looks like we are getting …
Gutsy Reinstall
Since I had was running a Feisty Fawn that had everything under the sun installed (I get a little apt-get happy at times), including the KDE desktop that installed on top of regular Ubuntu, I felt a …
Hello World!
One thing I’ve always enjoyed about launching websites is looking at the logs and seeing page views from everywhere in the world start to filter in. In the few days since I’ve launched, …