December 12, 2004 – 11:08 pm
Good article on common web site design mistakes made not only by musicians, but lots of “artistically inclined” people setting up web sites. Tip #1 involves a pet peeve of mine: Flash.
Excerpt:
Use Flash like you would cilantro—sparingly and for a single high-impact effect. Nobody wants to eat a whole bowl of cilantro
December 12, 2004 – 11:08 pm
Good article on common web site design mistakes made not only by musicians, but lots of “artistically inclined” people setting up web sites. Tip #1 involves a pet peeve of mine: Flash.
Excerpt:
Use Flash like you would cilantro—sparingly and for a single high-impact effect. Nobody wants to eat a whole bowl of cilantro
December 10, 2004 – 12:00 am
Happy International Human Rights Day
December 9, 2004 – 3:44 pm
MC Hawking: A Brief History of Rhyme
Album Description:
What if physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking had a secret life as a gangsta rapper? Confined to a wheelchair due to Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Dr. Hawking lost the use of his vocal chords in an operation to assist his breathing in 1985. Since then he’s used a speech synthesizer [...]
December 9, 2004 – 3:35 pm
to a humorous and insightful post from this blog, regarding weapons in space. Excerpt:
You’re thinking “won’t people be upset that we are floating spy satellites with weapons on them over their countries,” well Giblets has two responses to that. One, Giblets doesn’t care about those other countries. He’s never been to most of them and [...]
December 8, 2004 – 10:44 pm
I’ve added another element to my WordPress spam prevention technique, and posted a page that describes the whole thing here.
December 8, 2004 – 7:42 pm
Couple good Doonesbury strips: here and here
December 8, 2004 – 7:33 pm
For those using a free service like Blogger, but wishing they could try out Wordpress (so they can have a decent comment system, for example) but haven’t because they don’t want to host it themselves, I point you to blogsome.com
December 8, 2004 – 11:08 am
… at least until this evening; since I’m out of town today. 3 hours of driving down, 3 to go.
December 7, 2004 – 10:22 am
On a related note to the previous post, I decided long ago (soon after I started doing programming for a living) to do away with using IM clients. The reason is actually similar to that given above by Mr. Burton, but mine makes more sense (to me at least). I prefer all work-related conversations to [...]