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So Microsoft announced they’re changing the default rendering behavior in IE8.  Reasons why aside (see 3rd to last paragraph), they are actually doing it.  This simply spreads good will, which is something Microsoft is hardly known for.  It’s a big public relations boon. Seriously, thank you Microsoft.  Here’s to the continued spreading of good will.

In an effort to inspire me to write something else, I am throwing a few thoughts out from the last month. My orchestra, The Columbia Orchestra, is playing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for our next concert. The orchestra is trying to make at least a small cultural event out of it. There is a website (embracingthemillions.com) […]

but I got distracted uploading a boat-load of photos. Look at them instead.

This is an interesting little function that I ran across in Kent Dybvig’s The Scheme Programming Language. I thought I would give it a go in javascript. I wrote it out, and ran into two problems. First, I wasn’t returning anything from the anonymous-self-executing function, so it was being garbage collected, and the call to […]

The first time I played Yahtzee was… only about a month ago. I won 3 of my first 4 games. It was a fun game. I wonder how that game would be if I played against… oh, let’s say… Microsoft. Probably… not so much. Jeremy Keith, my favorite famous-web-developer-that-I-watch-from-afar-via-his-blog (sorry, didn’t have a better term […]

I woke up this morning and read the A List Apart articles (that I defered reading until this a.m.).  The powers that be have decided that IE will now use a metatag to decide what rendering type (ie6, ie7, ie9, etc.) to use.  This allows for backwards compatibility.  Supposedly. First, I don’t really care about the meta.  It’s fine… it is just one more trick to add to the pile. […]

So I have off for Martin Luther King day today.  I found myself with a chunk of time, and decided once and for all, to make feedburner work for me.  Happily, I can now say that I did that, and can move on. You will notice the bright orange RSS logo on the side there… […]

First, I just watched what can only be described as a “herd” of squirrels, run across a neighbors front lawn. I’ve seen one chase another before, but I have never seen 5 all move together with a direction change. Very odd. Anyway… A few days ago, I questioned in passing, when Twitter would start operating […]

Though I doubt it will mean anything to anyone… I threw this diagram together Monday night. It’s my application design for a default NCBI application. I’m pretty excited about it. Not too fancy, but a nice start. I’ve also been thinking about writing a Firefox extension. It’s about time that I play around with it, […]

When you do a search, and you click on a deep page.  The website makes you login, which you do begrudgingly. Where do they take you? To your home page.  Do they even offer to send you to the page you were looking for? Almost never. Come on, guys & girls.  That’s just too easy…

1) I took a look at the book on Processing, and it does look quite nice.  That being said, I’m not quite sure what I’d use it for.  So it fell a bit on my list. 2) Letterman is still pretty much the same.  I haven’t seen Leno.  Jon Stewart, however, looked TOTALLY crazy last […]

I rode my bike to work today. It was the first time I had done that in an excruciatingly long time. Everything in the world came up between. The weather over the last few days, however, has been so nice that I couldn’t resist any longer. So last night I put a new tube in […]

The coolest part of having a website is seeing that people I’ve never met, from places I’ve never been, have looked at something I’ve done.  For the last day of the year, I just want to list the places that have sent traffic to this website.  I think this is really exciting, and really interesting. […]

1) The idea of beautiful programming books representing the connection between art and programming is an interesting one. I think that there is an “art” to programming, but I don’t think there is really a direct connection. As a musician, I have a very formal vision of an “artist”, and knowing many programmers, few have […]

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