Archive for October, 2008

New life for an old mp3 player

October 28th, 2008

My wife upgraded to an iPod Touch over the weekend. I inherited her 1st-gen Nano. And my daughter inherited my trusty old 128 MB iRiver 180T. And life was good for a time. But then she came to me in tears because she’d dropped it. The battery door, flimsy to begin with on this model, [...]

Listening to lately…

October 23rd, 2008

A friend asked me what I’ve been listening to lately so I put this list together for him. Some of these are free downloads from Amazon… the rest are links to where you can listen to a sample or a YouTube video. I listen to a lot of different styles of music (translation: my wife [...]

Untitled

October 21st, 2008

Recent Tweets

October 15th, 2008

Hey, Dell! Why hasn’t my Mini shipped yet?! It’s not that I hate religion or politics per se. But the mindless hateful mob group behavior that comes out of it disgusts me. Seeing Don Quixote by Kirov Ballet tonight. Baby sitter en route. Putting on my fancy pants. I desperately wish people would tell the [...]

FD Weather Icons

October 15th, 2008

These are the icons I created for kidsweatherreport.com. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner, but it just struck me today to package them up and distribute the source files under a Creative Commons license (cc-by). The license allows you to do anything you like with the images including modifying them and [...]

2 minutes and 45 seconds in the Fashion District

October 12th, 2008

9th & Maple, Downtown, Los Angeles

DRM is Bad

October 6th, 2008

Spengler: There’s something very important I forgot to tell you. Venkman: What? Spengler: Don’t cross the streams. Venkman: Why? Spengler: It would be bad. Venkman: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad”? Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body [...]