Aug 31 2006
Holy cow.
Cdparanoia 10pre0 is now up at xiph.org as a test release of the upcoming 10.0, the first official release of cdparanoia in five years. This release marks a return of cdparanoia to active development here at xiph.org.
The 10.0 release brings cdparanoia up to date with bugfixes, submitted patches and…
Aug 30 2006
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThose of you following along at home may remember when I read Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. At the time, I mentioned that in some ways it was…
Aug 30 2006
I read this delightful little word in Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct (and later in an H.L. Mencken excerpt) and decided it would be perfect for a Wednesday’s Word. It has a number of…
Aug 28 2006
All’s well. The AJAX code didn’t like what I’d done to separate out [track/ping]backs and regular comments.
I am well aware that AJAX comments are wonky right now. They submit, and the user gets a “loading” message, but the ol id="commentlist" isn’t refreshed like it should be. It was working on my…
Aug 28 2006
In the manner of Google’s Summer of Code, the organization OpenUsability is funding student projects in the realm of—surprise!—software usability. First on their list id the GIMP, everybody’s favorite pixel-based-graphics-manipulation-program-that-isn’t-quite-as-good-as-Photoshop™. People have long complained about The Gimp’s interface, which by default opens three separate windows. Some effort has been made to…
Aug 27 2006
It was all just a hoax, apparently. Still, I don’t think I would be out of order, were it true.
That’s what Brent Roos’ tagline asks. I’ll answer you: he’s a troll with an inflated sense of his own importance. Think I’m being a little harsh? Maybe, but read on, and…
Aug 27 2006
After 40 years of performing rock music, pop ballads and movie soundtracks, Elton John is looking to cross over to yet another musical genre—hip hop.
“I want to bring my songs and melodies to hip hop beats — a bit like ‘No Diggity’ by Blackstreet,”’ John said in excerpts of an…
Aug 27 2006
Foe by J.M. CoetzeeI first heard of Foe on someone’s blog (sadly, I forgot where), and upon looking into the author, I was amazed to learn that J.M. Coetzee is a man of considerable fame and (ostensibly) talent; I…
