wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: September, 2004

Here’s a great idea (Defending the Fox)

If you get as sick as I do of browser detection scripts which redirect you to a page telling you to fix your browser just because you use something reasonable instead of Internet Explorer, then you should contribute to this project. The idea is simple, they maintain lists of sites which do the detection and [...]

mp3s down, should be back Monday

Mp3s on the Nancy archived site and those linked off the bandography are offline for the moment. They should be back up on Monday, but it might take a few days longer. They’re on a seperate server and it was taken down this weekend for maintenance but should be back up soon.

NWA, sampling, freedom, and you…

Read up on the recent court case against (long defunct) rap group NWA and their (IMHO, perfectly legit) use of a Funkadelic sample (and, if you’re musically inclined, send in your own mix).

life and television

” I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here.” — William Gibson

Open Source to the rescue, once again…

I mentioned Caio Chassot’s wonderful FireFox extension MiniT recently. A friend of mine who uses OS X had some problems getting it to run, so I emailed Caio about the problem and the author sent a link to the new, OS X friendly XPI. Turnaround time on the fix? Less than three hours! That’s dedication.