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Much love to our friend Heather, whose mother died recently, and whose memorial service is today.

Some folks make a big deal out of the semantics of holiday well-wishing; I don’t. Whether you say “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas” or “Enjoy the Winter Solstice, Druid Brother!” or most any other winter-time greeting, I’ll just translate it internally to a more generalized wish of good luck. People being nice to [...]

My community site for bass guitarists, Bassplaying.com runs on Drupal, the incredibly good open source CMS. It had been running version 4.6 for quite some time. But that version is no longer supported, so I finally made the jump to 4.7.10, which was fairly painless. I also went with a new [...]

I didn’t succeed in finishing many (any?) James, Not Jim tracks this year. But I decided to go through some songs-in-progress and post very rough mixes of very rough versions of them over at the James, Not Jim site. Comments welcome (here or there).

IM clients like Trillian have always been handy because they allow you to use one application to chat with users of all the most popular IM networks (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, etc.). Trillian in particular is handy because, even though it’s a fairly bloaty bit of software, it’s still not nearly as invasive as the [...]

I’ve started revising my courses for the spring semester. And I’m trying to expand everything in a few different directions. On the technical side, I’ve tweaked the CSS a bit for better online reading. I’ve been squashing non-semantic elements in my markup. And I discovered a great little JavaScript trick [...]