department zed | ramblings from the great white north

Advertising drives the MSM, and the MSM is not blind.

You decide.

A while ago, I wrote a post about SCHIP and Health Insurance. This was a general reaction to something Paul Krugman wrote, whom I respect and admire—but whose information (like pretty much everything else out there) I don’t take for granted.
Let me tell you a story.
In the previous post, I mentioned that I finally […]

Been holding back on this one for a while…last year, my band Morning Society began work on our debut CD, Aerial (link to iTunes, Amazon). Totally self-recorded, mixed and produced in the basement studio we practice in—with our old drummer, Adam Schmid (now with Drift Effect) doing the mixing honours—and though it was a […]

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.

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.

If you don’t want to learn anything about how JavaScript is bound to the Document Object Model, try something like GWT and stop demanding that the major Ajax libraries conform to your immediate needs.

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.