Tab Mix Plus

My last post was about a little Greasemonkey script that I wrote to keep my last.fm window open from accidental closings. I thought it would be cool if there was an extension that could handle this, …

Keeping the music going

I love listening to last.fm’s similar artist radio stations. I constantly forget that the music I am listening to is coming from one of my Firefox tabs, and will accidentally close it from time …

The Iconic Photos of George W

I’m no fan of Bush’s politics, but holy cow, what a character he turned out to be. Errol Morris’ blog on NY Times’ website had a great post today where he interviewed the head …

"To Live Deep"

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that …

Something new, Something Clojure

I’ve been shopping for a new programming language to learn the past few months and I’ve decided to jump on the functional wagon and expand my mind a little. For my day job, I’m a PHP …

Helping jQuery Out

I’ve made a commitment to myself to start helping out with some of my favorite open source projects. I’ve started helping in my own little way by hanging out in the jQuery IRC channel. …

Setting up lighttpd/Apache for Django on Slicehost

I finally made the jump and moved the websites I was hosting on my home PC and moved them out to slicehost. Signing up for my slice could not have been easier and so far it has been a flawless …

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.