Typo supports Markdown, which is super sweet. I far prefer it to Textile. The only problem with Typo is that I have yet to find a good Emacs XML-RPC mode/library that work with Typo, so I’ve decided to compose my blog entries in Emacs as Markdown and then add them to the blog when I’m [...]
There’s a whole lot of very cool web music technology in the works right now. Services are popping up to facilitate tour tracking, music blog tracking and seamless music experiences. I don’t really have much to say (for now) but here’s a good list of some cool stuff. Hype Machine – See what music all [...]
I’ve switched this blog to Typo. this is exciting and fun and it means that you can comment without waiting for me to read your email and add it to the post. It only took one day of that for me to get tired of it. All the old content is still here except for [...]
Here’s a Flickr set of postcards and toys held in place of real tourist attractions. Stolen shamelessly from Jason Kottke.
I was listening to the BBC News Hour this morning. They were covering the recent Science report on fish stock depletion and, in the course of the report, interviewed a British fisherman about the report. The question asked, of course, was “do you believe this report?” And the fisherman’s reply, of course, was, “no, we [...]
This video of a 500kV electrical switch opening in the middle of the Nevada desert is bad ass.
I’m playing with http-access2, a Ruby library for programatically accessing web pages. I want to write a web app that sits between people and a privileged admin interface and this seems like it will do the trick. It’s a little slow but I think that’s the SSL talking.
Here’s a reminder to myself to check out The Battle for Wesnoth when I get home. That’s all.