Today’s picture of the day is of the wonderful band Stereolab. If you haven’t listened to Stereolab, you are missing out, Chester. Possibly one of the best CD purchases I’ve made in the past few years was ABC Music – BBC Radio 1 sessions, the double CD of pretty much all of their best songs.…
Spankin’ New Contact Form
Finally got my geek on and figured out how to set up a contact form. Works pretty well. Available at the Contact Info page. Thank you. That is all.
Buy(.com) and wait
On the 19th, I saw a link to a nifty little USB flash drive, complete with a $20 rebate (rendering the 64MB drive only $12), and free shipping to boot! Seemed like a good deal, so I purchased the drive and downloaded the rebate form. And waited. And waited. And waited some more. I do…
Another step forward
Just a quick note (again): I’ve got the “Listening” page working like I’d expected it to now. This includes incorporating a wonderful PHP XML parser (written by my friend Mike Pacific of ModBlog fame) for playlists exported via iTunes. I’ve still to write an AppleScript to automatically export the playlist XML and upload it to…
Advice for the budding designer
Just a quick note on a great article written by Cameron Moll over at Authentic Boredom. Cameron takes a second out to give you, the budding (and not-so-budding) designer eight important things to remember when doing that voodoo that you do so well. Just to encapsulate the points: Details a Great Designer Makes There’s a…
Enjoy some great acoustic music
A few minutes ago, I visited the site of the local alternative weekly paper (The City Weekly) and cast my vote in the yearly Slammy awards. Each year, the paper takes votes on the best of Salt Lake City in regards to music, arts, and comedy. Sometimes the results are right on (see Starmy and…
Tweak Tweak
I spent some time doing some small updates to the site style last night, including the following: minor graphic changes (mostly in the rest of the site), alterations to the font sizing and alignment on the sidebar, new sections and groupings for talk talk related items (new Feeds, Reading List and Listening pages). Hopefully things…
Picture-o-the-day
Today’s picture of the day (not really a daily occurrence on the site, but just something I do when I run across something cool) shows you another reason I’m voting for John Kerry this November: We have the same laptop! Doesn’t that make you want to vote for him? 😉
It Must LOOK the Same!
Eric Meyer encapsulates my feelings on standards based web design. It is a overly stated fact that designing non-compliant web sites drives me insane. I find designing standards based sites much easier to handle and much more logical to deal with (and thus highly appealing for my overwrought analytical side). Standards also equal a certain…
SVG
I was reading an article over at ZDNet (When standards don’t apply)… well, skimming it, really… when I saw them make mention of SVG as an alternative to Flash. I chuckled. As it is well known, I am a standards evangelist, and well, SVG is most certainly the standards-based alternative to Macromedia’s proprietary Flash. I…