Category Archives: Pre-UrHo

My mind is still a little boggled by this, but I’ll try to explain it the best I can. Last night, I opened up the Quicksilver preferences to see if there were any new plug-ins available (in the new Tiger … Continue reading →

I’ve added a new section to the bar of contextual info at the left there, under the title of “upcoming”. For a while now, I’ve kept a list of ideas for posts in a text file. Using the Quicksilver append … Continue reading →

I had another, lower-fi, idea yesterday in the car on the way to the airport that could supplement the idea of distributing music through local wifi networks. I call it “Give-a-Disc, Take-a-Disc”: Since I first discovered podcasting back in December … Continue reading →

After I told him about my idea for bloggable public space, my housemate/bandmate, Cary, thought of an interesting extension to it. In addition to creating a community bulletin board-style blog, the venues could use their wifi hotspots to distribute music. … Continue reading →

This isn’t my normal kind of post. There’s not really an idea here, more of just a standard-practice blogish act of pointing to something cool on the web. But, it does relate to a previous post on bloggable public space … Continue reading →

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 →