Home Computer Magazine is a new UK-based electronic-copy-only PC magazine. What’s nice about it is that it’s in downloadable PDF format, and they don’t ask for an email address, or even use cookies on the website!
The content is nice, if a bit towards the beginner side and I found the text just a little […]
Zero Sen will be playing out twice on New Year’s Eve:
1. Around 4pmFrom 6:00 - 6:15 (!) on Gate 2 street with the Do-Nuts, Hoi Festa, Ska-shippe, High and Mighty Color, and Orange Range.
2. Later that evening, around 10pm, at The Hideaway.
I’m ramping up to work on The Scalculator application, but I wanted to knock the dust off the faithful old online version.
There’s no change in functionality, but it is now valid XHTML and CSS. I looked over the code and, let me tell you, it’s strange to review something you spent so much time […]
Check out the ad for Smirnoff, and the big ALL CAPS TEXT copy implying lots of raspberries. This is what it says:
Tons of raspberries were harmed in the making of this product. Seriously, we slaughtered truckloads of em.
Now, check out the really small print, down in the lower left corner, smaller than even the […]
I’ll be spending some time twiddling with the site, trying to unify the various bits and make it a bit cleaner.
So, if something renders funky or doesn’t validate, assume it’s being worked on. Suggestions are welcome, also!
Finally, I saw Team America: World Police this weekend. (Yes, I watched a lot of movies over the last couple of days.)
This movie was hilarious. I mean, genuinely funny so that you start laughing on the drive home, remembering parts of the movie. The songs were good (although not as good […]
I got the very excellent Return of the King this weekend and watched it last night.
However, right on the next to last scene on the first DVD, where Aragon is gathering the ghost army, I got a “Disc Read Failure” error. I kicked back out the main menu, and got it again. I’ll […]
I saw Napoleon Dynamite this weekend. It’s currently got a 7.3 at the IMDB, but I think that’s a little high.
It’s a quirky movie, offbeat and nostaligic for the late 80s/early90s. It wasn’t as funny as I had hoped from seeing the previews, it’s actually a bit more sincere than I thought it […]
This is my attempt to show you what you don’t see - not convert you away from Christianity, not to mock your beliefs or your god, not to convince you that you are wrong, just to help you understand.
What I don’t see though is why people are so defiant against Christianity - or any […]
Ed Bott suggests opening up your media player, shuffling the playlist and showing the first 10 entries. Here are mine:
Dead Moon Rising - Sentenced
Swim - In Flames
Cowards Dead End - Children Of Bodom
Queen of the Highway - The Doors
Murders in the Rue Morgue - In Flames
The Crimson - Atreyu
Episode 666 - In Flames
All Hail […]
A recent Dvorak Uncensored blog entry records a bet between Mr. Dvorak and an associate. The bet itself isn’t that interesting (I would gladly take a piece of the action on the “won’t happen” side), but the idea of using a blog to record such “semi-private” transactions is provacative.
One of the powers that […]
From Campaign of Deception Used to Push Patriotic Song Up Chart:
Country singer Chely Wright said yesterday she was dismissing the head of her fan club and shutting down a team of volunteers after The Tennessean learned that some of them posed as members of the military or their families to promote her latest song.
Seventeen members […]
Michael Kaplan follows up his “machine translation is not easy” article, which includes the great How I Met My Wife by Jack Winter.
I blogged about the first article earlier.
This is an insightful piece, and not just limited to machine translation problems. Anyone who has learned a second language, especially later in life, has stumbled […]
Nice info on bandwidth problems with WordPress, and easy to understand bug reports rock!
Article from the Register [VIA]:
Apparently, some Austrailian music anti-piracy organization is attempting to freeze monies donated to the International Red Cross because they were donated by the founder of Kazaa.
Michael Speck of Australia’s Music Industry Piracy Investigations said: “We’re preparing our approach to the International Red Cross. I believe this whole thing will come […]
As well nigh-unbelievable as this may be, there is some evidence that, like that fraud Ashlee Simpson, Lindsay Lohan may be a lip-syncer as well! Shocking!
It’s sad enough that people that lack the talent to actually sing are being passed off as singers, but they also lack the talent to be able to lip-sync!
And it continues … a late night last night, as we fiddled about with the computers before we were able to do any recording. We did finally get some of Hideki’s wood bass recorded. That was a bit tricky because of the “audio capture” device we are using, an old Yamaha UA-30 - […]
I have about a half-dozen GMail invites to give out. If you want one, just leave a comment with email contact info. You can (and probably should) obfusucate the email address. As long as I can figure it out, I’ll send the invite.
Brett Meisner, the “Rock n Roll Bad Boy” has brilliant site - I’m still laughing. A lot like Metal Sludge, except Sludge hasn’t been very good for a while now.
I love the main page title - the part that shows up across the top of the browser window - and to think I almost […]
One of the side effects of updating my blog was losing some of the spam-killing tools I had up. Sure enough, immediately after I posted something I started getting some of that hot online poker link action.
I wasn’t super happy with some of the tools I was using, and I had read about Spam […]