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CHANGES

April 27th, 2006 | No Comments | Posted in Main
I’ve been having some big problems with my ISP so I’m in the midst of changing my hosting around. I have this blog here temporarily while I move things around. Please excuse the mess.

DOING STUFF

April 14th, 2006 | No Comments | Posted in Main

Boy, I’ve been a slacker about the blog recently but I have some good reasons. I’ve been working like mad (or as mad as someone with a full-time job, a wife, and 2 goods can work) on the web project and I’m close to going live with a beta (test) version of the site for people to check out. May 1 is my self-imposed deadline so I’m working hard to get there.

Here’s some stuff I’ve been meaning to post about, in tiny chunks:

  • AllofMP3.com rocks. It’s quasi-legal but I don’t care. I can download a full album for $1.10 or so, which completely changes the economics of listening to music. “So, the reviews are good for these Arctic Monkeys guys? Buy it. Rob Zombie’s new album is out? Haven’t read any reviews or heard any of it? So what. Buy it. It’s a buck.” (And it’s worth the buck) Plus instead of skating on their cheapness the site is really well done.
  • I’ve been listening the hell out of the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, Show Your Bones. Better than the first one and I liked that one a lot. Every song I just think “Damn, this is a good song!”
  • Grant Morrison is a Golden Comics God. His new Superman book is just so good it blows my mind, and I don’t even like Superman. I also bought the first 2 volumes of his Seven Soldiers of Victory project and it’s awesome as well.
  • UltraEdit is the greatest text editor in existance. I just paid for the new version which I honestly rarely do since I don’t have a lot of money to throw around on software. It’s worth it just for the feature of showing my FTP site in the tree view next to the editor so I can just double-click and open remote files
  • If you’re doing Javascript, you have to try out Prototype.js and Scriptaculous. You owe it to yourself.

POLITICS

April 6th, 2006 | No Comments | Posted in Main
An Evening with Ann Coulter: Opening Statement by Al Franken
This is a great speech given by Al Franken in a debate he had with Ann Coulter. He’s right on the money and at the top of his game the whole time. I would love to see video of this and of whatever Coulter had to say in response. I really encourage you to read the whole thing.

And this isn’t relevant to the rest of what he says really but it’s my favorite “joke” from the speech.

But my son doesn’t feel that he got where he is because he is some kind of rugged individual. That he did it all himself. He knows that he stands on the shoulders of those who stood on the shoulders of those who stood on the shoulders of those who stood on the shoulders of those who stood on the necks of Indians.

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