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 [...]

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 [...]