department zed | ramblings from the great white north

I’m sick to my stomach.

I just watched the majority of the VP debate on CNN HD. I can’t begin to express how pissed I am about it; the myriad of assumptions by both parties and by the media is just….astounding. ASTOUNDING.

Where to begin?

“unqualified, unfit and unprepared to be a United States senator”? Because he is comedic writer along the lines of Mark Twain?

A note about the travails of switching hosting services.

A blast from the past for me; throwing old band stuff out into the wild can be fun!

A follow-up to the first set of responses to Glenn Branca’s the 25 questions.

…the music that the major record companies promote is unimaginative, rehashed from previous years and is a seriously stagnant cultural idiom.

One of the biggest issues with Open Source software is exactly how unpolished it tends to be; too many developers seem to never realize that they aren’t the only ones who want to use it.

Too many developers are too lazy; sometimes it can be a good thing to take ideas from completely different sources, and incorporate them into your workflow.

As a developer, don’t become dogmatic about particular design styles.

It’s about trust. If you are unwilling to sign your name on something you post to the Internet, then you are just contributing to the increasing white noise that is the Interwebs(tm).

Amazing how…”imaginative”…some comment spam can really be. And not in a good way.

So much for the preservation of old blog posts.

Normally I don’t give myself a pat on the back but I’m pretty proud of what I just pulled—providing a way of using the SVG Font specification in any browser…

Some personal factoids about what I use when coding Javascript—and more importantly, what I don’t.

I love Overheard in New York.

I don’t know of a more accurate statement when it comes to developers with an over-inflated sense of self-worth.

…it’s a freaking freight train packed full of idiots.