One Man Clapping

I have read numerous articles and blog posts over the last 12 months about the decline of the newspaper industry.  Having spent a few years ...

My last post was a lamentation about how the current set of mp3 blog aggregators don't do it for me, and at the same time a declaration...

I started this post as a "Dear Lazyweb" but decided against it. I'm actually going to do something about this particular pro...

It amazes me that in terms of durability, beauty and quality in general, that wood is still high up on the list of "stuff to make thing...

Dear Lazyweb, I have a lot of ripped CDs and DVDs; I use MythTv and I have a mac. And I want to access them all using Frontrow *and* My...

Two years ago this month I set up our MythTV system. At first, we kept in in our living room where the computer was. We watched tv on a 2...

I was talking with a programmer recently about a bit-twiddling problem. The conversation brought to mind things I learned a long time ago w...

I use google reader for my rss feeds. Something I'm surprised they haven't added yet are "predictive labels" that attemp...

Many programmers hack in their spare time. I am no exception. I tend toward music-related projects, but have fun doing almost anything tha...

Programmers must often strike a balance between correct and pragmatic. This is often the difference between do it right and merely get it ...

It is becoming clear that iPhone apps are in my future. So I've been taking time lately to familiarize myself with the development envi...

Old passions have been stirring within me... As a boy, I had a great interest in radio. It fascinated me that five dollars in parts allowed...

Captain Stupid strikes again... I bought a used Xbox (version 1.0) a few weeks ago, intending to convert it into a cheap (heh) frontend mach...

I've finished moving everything over. My blog, my website, my email, etc. I didn't realize how many services I had running on that...

I now completely understand why Apple has dropped support for the Cocoa-Java bindings (that were quite nifty)--they've moved on to Ruby...

1. dd-wrt has (since November) released firmware updates for my WHR-G125. I have just installed it and bandwidth monitoring is indeed workin...

I have found that the time I have allotted for recreational programming has decreased significantly in the last two years. Part of that reas...

I just finished upgrading my MythTV system. Given the pain it took me to get it running smoothly in the first place, I was worried about t...

Here is a Magnetic Fields show recorded in Toronto, 2004. Old, but if you're a MF fan, it's good stuff. I don't know how I'...

I think I'm going to make this a regular feature of my blog. (Wait... nothing about my blog smacks of regular or consistent, unless you ...