So over the course of this year, I’m going to dust off the WWW geekery and (re)immerse myself in the state of the art. Of course, that means an alphabet soup of acronyms and cutesy names:
XML, XSLT, XHTML, PHP, MySQL, SQL, Perl, Ruby on Rails, Ajax, etc., etc. Monthly updates and examples (!!) [...]
Ages ago, in the days before the Web, a good friend of ours built the E S T H E R video. The what?
A “video” for the Phish song Esther, produced on some old-school software for the Mac. This famously played at one show in between sets in 1991, and has been floating around [...]
Some unmentionable bastards have apparently hacked through Isaac’s site, placing all manner of sneaky lookups into it through the back end scripts. So if you go there, expect screwed-up presentation, and goddamned sneakware scripts sending data to poker sites, etc.
I am a tad pissed off.
So he’s going offline until I figure out what’s what.
Grrrrrrrrrr……
This place — http://www.myheritage.com — has presented, as its first service to the world, face-recognition software that compares your face to their database of celebrity faces, and proposes the best match. The pure hilarity of the results are more than worth tossing in a registration. For example, here are my 10 best matches:
Primoz [...]
OK, what the hell is going on with the “Ager” name and basketball players? (See also Multi-Tasking below.)
As of yesterday morning, we’ve officially owned our home for one year.
Wow.
We’ve done a fair amount of work in that year, although finishing the paint in the hallway (primed LAST January) will wait until we can open windows again, as we’re not too keen on Isaac sucking down lots of paint vapors.
Always more to do, [...]
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