Due to the glacial pace of web standards, it’s not often that you get to add a new trick to your repertoire. However, thanks primarily to Google, it appears that the old request-response model of web applications can finally fade into the past. It’s not that they have invented a new technology, just [...]

Apparently, the rumor is that Apple wants to buy TiVo. I really hope this happens, since TiVo hasn’t been doing well of late.
TiVo has always been a very user-focused device, as a comparison with my father’s DVR revealed. A while ago, I asked him if he saw the recent Daily Show, and he [...]

I released jUploadr 0.4 tonight after testing it out for a couple days. I’ve continued to further refine the interface as well as adding some requested features. The most important feature for this release is the ability to set attributes on multiple files, which should save a bunch of time for those people who upload [...]

It’s been raining here for a week and a half, but on Friday, we got a brief respite. Unfortunately, Jordy decided to ride his bicycle to work. At about 5:00, the skies grew very dark and let loose with a torrential downpour. Needless to say, Jordy couldn’t ride his bicycle to the train station, [...]

Wordpress upgrade complete. It took a bit longer because I had to skin all of the aditional pages, but the site looks good, and has a bunch of new features to boot. Wordpress is pretty damn slick.
Best of all, the plugins still work.

I’m upgrading wordpress, so the site will look funky until I adapt the old styles to the new –and much improved– templating system.
Please bear with me.

I was leafing through the latest Guitar World, and came across an ad for the Hunter Cutter which has to be the strangest guitar I’ve ever seen. Maybe it’s just my guitar indoctrination talking, but the thing is a train wreck. The creator claims that the stainless steel wings help with sustain, but they’re screwed [...]