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 message to the advertising industry.
Advertising drives the MSM, and the MSM is not blind.
What is wrong with this picture?
You decide.
Health Insurance: a follow-up.
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 […]
A follow-up to Gruber’s “Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline”.
Article here.
I’ve long been a convinced admirer of Gruber’s philosophy that Apple is not in direct competition with Microsoft; instead, it is a direct competitor of hardware manufacturers such as Dell and HP. If you take that into account, everything Gruber says in this particular article makes a lot of sense.
But I think there’s […]
What a great commentary on last week’s “The Onion” Chinese takeover.
By Haiyan Lee, who teaches at Stanford University. A smart analysis of the myriad sources of satire so lovingly executed by The Onion.
JS/Ajax libraries are there not to replace but to augment.
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.
Memories…
A blast from the past for me; throwing old band stuff out into the wild can be fun!
On the VP debate.
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?
Bringing typography to the Open Web
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…