My participation in the book meme proved to be a popular diversion for four of the five people I tagged: Jack, Steve, Fred, and Kat all chose to play along. Only Josh managed to abstain. Who started that thing? Anyone know?

I added a third lesson to Wheat’s GuitarBook (the red-headed step child of Wheat’s BassBook). Two more and we’ll complete the five patterns of the natural minor scale. After that I’ll cover minor pentatonic and blues before moving on to the major scale. Rock on.

The Louvre 360 is fun for a few minutes. It’s a series of Quicktime VR shots from, well, you know, the Louvre. It’s a fun for the art as for the visitors in their state of suspended animation.

I like Rafe’s blog quite a lot. I’ve been reading it for years. He’s a Java guy, but I don’t usually hold that against him, until he starts railing against PHP (especially when it’s actually PEAR that’s his problem). As someone who has set up Tomcat and managed to get it working, and wasted plenty [...]

The Google-powered search page is now rolling. Thanks to Josh for trouble shooting the weird layout issues (that’s getting to be a standard disclaimer around here). Based on a few test searches, I’m fairly amazed that Google seems to have already indexed the contents of the new database back-end. A few details: the search doesn’t [...]