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Funny video of a dog skateboarding. He’s not just going in a straight line, either. Check him out: he knows how to kick off, steer, and bail before he hits curbs.

Kid draws political cartoon about our president. Teacher rats him out to the superintendent who, in turn, calls the Secret Service. I can’t even comment on this one, I’m too busy hanging my head in shame.

Found some fun flash-based games designed for piano students. But the bass clef game (and the advanced version) are useful for bassists and other F-clef dwellers.

Using wheatblog app on a daily basis makes it easy to see which features and fixes are crucial. I beefed up the RSS a bit (now has summaries) and fixed their sort order. I also added email notification for new comments. These are small changes, but helpful ones.

I spent some time yesterday moving all the audio files in the bandography to a new server and, of course, updating all the links to them. This gave me an excellent opportunity to get really sentimental listening to music I’ve recorded over the years (or, rather, that tiny subset of it that ever got recorded, [...]

Last night, after finishing the last few pages of Popper’s book, I sat and tweaked wheatdesign for a while, updating content here and there and making a few minor design changes to certain pages. It was fun to focus on the design of it more than the coding of it, for a change.
I share Alex’s [...]

I know it’s been quiet around here lately, but all the last minute hassle of getting wheatblog app out the door took the wind out of me. And, of course, I already have a list of features to implement for the next version. It’s also about time to revisit the showlister code and get a [...]

I was installing the Java 2 SDK (version 1.4.2) on a Windows XP box yesterday when I ran into the mysterious “Error 1722″ which is mentioned here in Sun’s installation notes. Unfortunately, their fix didn’t fix my problem. The solution? Make sure there aren’t any previous installs of Java on the box. I found four [...]

An op-ed piece from The New York Times about the Hattiesburg, Mississippi incident (free registration required). I’ll be interested to see how this one plays out.

I released wheatblog app version .02b today. I am using a slightly customized version of it to maintain this blog. I’m happy to have it out the door. The original (.01b) version came out in July 8, 2001! I am happy with this new version and look forward to making further improvements to the code.