Monthly Archives: April 2005

In the last few weeks, a trend has been growing towards simpler web design that looks more and more like unstyled HTML. Influential designer Tom Coates recently switched over to an extremely simple, almost austere, format for his blog and … Continue reading →

For each of the wifi hotspots around town, especially in public places with particular cultural cache or communal access, there should be a blog that anyone can post to. The catch is that you should only be able to post … Continue reading →

A couple of posts ago (though more weeks than that do to my recent, and even more recently terminated, unplanned blogging vacation), I wrote about my discovery of Google SMS. I have since been using it happily and effectively to, … Continue reading →

I have a kind of obsession with being able to make stuff and with people who already can. It’s not something I’m especially good at, making stuff. Now, I can write, play, and record songs. I can research and write … Continue reading →

Today at work, I was stuck with the day shift. Since I also closed the shop last night, I was operating on even less sleep than is normal for the highly-unnatural-for-me nine-thirty a.m. start time, which is never much to … Continue reading →

Right now, I’m in the middle of reading an inspiring text book. Philip Greenspun is a long standing <a href="http://www.mit.edu"MIT denizen, a leading advocate for the construction of web-based communities, and the author of Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web … Continue reading →

Back in 2003, after the end of the war part of the Iraq war (don’t worry, this is a post about music, not politics), Seymour Hersh wrote an article in the New Yorker titled, The Stovepipe. Hersh defines “stovepiping” as … Continue reading →

This post is a little different from others I’ve made. It is still an overly long and maybe less than precisely clear exposition on a technical issue of limited interest on which I have minimal expertise, so there’s no reason … Continue reading →

My overseer when I worked at the Willamette Week a couple of years back, Nigel Jacquiss won a Pulizer Prize this week. The prize, awarded for investigative journalism, went to Jaquiss for breaking the story of former Oregon governor <a … Continue reading →