The trouble with my music taste has always been this: I’m constantly listening to my dad’s music. A big jazz fan, most of the good pickings are from at least thirty years ago. Because of this, I’m always real excited when I find a contemporary musician I love. Here, I’m just going to throw a few of them out there (along with a fair amount of superlatives professing my adoration for each) and share with the world. A common theme here (outside the piano, which I love) would be a level of eclecticism not always found in the jazz genre. They may not be for everyone, but if you’re a fan of either the keyboard or jazz (but especially both at the same time), you may appreciate them. Continue reading »
If you use the Prototype JS library (like I do) in unison with the Javascript Prototype Model (like I do), you may eventually run into a conflict. Continue reading »
F*ck you.
So I’m cruising the Internet, having a bowl of cereal, happy as a clam. Not so great at multitasking, I get a little sloppy and mistype a URL. I, of course, expect to be shown Firefox’s usual 404 Page — you know, this:
Instead, I’m taken to this bullshit:
Now, what this means is that, besides throttling my bandwidth, Charter Communications has begun intercepting negative DNS lookup responses from queried servers and replacing that response with a URL the browser sees as valid, one that is full of Charter advertisements. Continue reading »
Abe’s View, via my flickr
Honest Abe’s television.
I love the xkcd comic about Wikipedia, I love that xkcd fans immediately tried to make life imitate art, I love that Wikipedia moderators locked the article in response. For me, this is the internet operating to perfection.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew-Galvanize-Davies (talk • contribs) 18:48, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Here is a little something I threw together earlier in the week. Continue reading »
Yang Ban Xi: The Eight Model Works. Continue reading »
Of, By and For the Dollar, via my flickr
A fitting sight, having just finished reading the last of Ayn Rand’s major works. Continue reading »
Page four. Billy looked up from his book, glanced around the coffee shop. He peered at the faces of the other patrons, averting his gaze from each just before it became impolite. His eyes bounced about until eventually they ran out of faces and found their way to the television screen above the counter. Continue reading »
The Boston Globe has begun a very cool little daily online publication, wherein a single article is chosen each day to be accompanied by several very high-resolution photos. Continue reading »
Welcome to Ogg Hall, via my flickr.
Old Ogg Hall, of the University of Madison, in an effort to remain inviting even in disrepair and demolition. Continue reading »
Standard 12-hour time is great for everyone but programmers. I’ve found myself rewriting this little bit of code so often I figured I’d share, to save others the trouble. Continue reading »
I haven’t had the time to post anything really meaningful, recently, but at least I can share some little whatzits and whoozits I’ve found interesting: these are a couple of videos showcasing some very different takes on some very mundane things. Continue reading »
