I’m almost finished rolling an admin page for Tawn’s site that will allow for the easy modification of the editorial calendar. I have the front-end of the admin interface. Now I just need to roll the backend. It’s only a few hours work, but it will make all the difference in the maintainability of that [...]
A few quotes from two good sites
From the archive page at v-2.org: “To me, America is still and will always be the greatest idea in human history, but furthering that idea has nothing to do with wrapping oneself in the flag, brandishing tough-guy rhetoric and smothering any sign of dissent.” That just about sums it [...]
I watched Pi last night. It’s a fairly interesting (if a bit long) art flick about a math genious who goes insane due to his obsession with finding a pattern in Pi (and, in fact, mathematical patterns in everything). Part of what leads to his madness is his obsession with finding a fundamental truth beneath [...]
Yesterday, I downloaded a great open source editor/IDE for Java (though it’s good for lots of other things too) called SciTE. It’s small, fast, and ahas a nice set of features including fully-customizable syntax highlighting and HTML export of your code. It also makes great printouts of your code. If you have need of a [...]
Last night, Nancy played a show with an Austin band called The Action Is. They were amazing: a completely cool real rock band. And they’re nice people to boot. If they play your town, do yourself a favor and check them out. As I watched them, I thought “These guys f*cking rock” and then thought [...]
Two more essays. These describe New York in the wake of the tragedy in the eyes of Jeffrey Zeldman, one of my favorite web designers and a Gotham city dweller. These, like all his personal writings, are beautiful in their economy and refreshingly honest: Day Four, and 911
Weekend media: The Usual Suspects (2nd time), Memento [here or here] (amazing), and Snow Falling on Cedars(also very good and very timely considering the current state of racial paranoia). Not much else to report. My teeth are still packed with stuff that resembles silly putty. It’s not pleasant.
PBS.org page on Osama bin Laden.
I had gum surgery today to correct (I hope) the peridontitis that’s been haunting me for years. They split open my gums, cleaned away tarter below the gum line, and graphed synthetic bone-like material. The idea is to make up for bone loss due to the condition and firm up my teeth which, untreated, would [...]
Of course, I’m as upset about the bombing of the World Trade Center as is anyone else. Speculations fly, gas prices have gone through the roof, news coverage is incessant. I tracked it for a while, then tried to put it out of my mind. I’ve spent the last hour on metafilter which is where [...]