The Expense of Developing an Electric Car

must be high, because even GM couldn’t afford real celebrities for this Volt event.

Kottke on Rent Parties

What do we lose if we always consume and never produce? Alternatively, will blogging make better writers?

That Was Quick

Once wins Best Original Song at the Oscars last night (here’s the song in the movie) and today the soundtrack is the best overall selling album at Amazon. Cool. I still wish he didn’t always go to the falsetto when he needed something extra.

Getting Started on Rails, Again

This post exists as a note to myself so I can remember the pain. So far:

7:30am - My old copy of Agile Web Development with Rails may be more of a hindrance than a help. It’s from the days of yore (Rails 1 …

No Dreamcatchers Either

You never see a good personalized plate on a hearse. Sure you’ll see the occasional plate with the company name and a number, keeping you apprised of how many cars they have in their death fleet, but you never see something like “CU L8R”. Just give …

Who Wrox? This Guy Right Here

The main point of buying programming books from Wrox is the SI Swimsuit Issue-quality cover models. I’m calling a party foul on this fellow: note the casual, “Gosh, little ol’ me?” pose that leads to a reveal of his skin art. If anything …

Childhood Disappointment

That the words above Jesus’ cross did not indicate the incident took place in Rhode Island. I’m not sure why I thought this would have been a plus.

Doubly Impressed

I’ve been playing around with MusicIP Mixer based on Chris’ recommendation. After getting through the “Oh my word, this is sucking up all the processing power of this monstrous computer” while it indexes and “validates” your music, it does a really interesting job, finding similar songs across …

Oh Google Ads

you don’t know me as well as you think.

New Pornographers Video

This might be enough for me to forgive them for what they did to me in Rock Band with “Electric Version”.