Category: legacy

I became aware of this article on BusinessWeek.com, “Anime, from Cute to Scary”, written by an editor who moved to Tokyo and was afraid of how Japan’s intense interest (I don’t want to say obsession, though he surely would) in cuteness began to influence his daughters. At one point he describes Morning Musume as “about…

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Amuro Namie’s PV for “WoWa” is out and I love it to death. Never mind the Queen of Hip Pop, this wacky video has ensured that she’s also empress of my heart. (Not counting the wife, of course. No one tell her I wrote this, she already thinks W are the co-empresses of my heart.)…

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Further, their decision to play ko-gals – complete with ganguro make-up – is incredible, especially when one considers the reputation attached to such a look. That alone was enough to make me take notice, and the way they vamp up in the detective meets ko-gals scenes is my favorite part of the PV. Watch the…

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Take complete control of text formatting options on your blog: Formatting and encoding per post, globally on posts, and globally on comments. Text Control will allow you to choose from a variety of formatting syntaxes and encoding options. You can choose between Markdown, Textile 1, Textile 2, nl2br, WPautop, and “No Formatting” for formatting along…

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Lets be clear: I really like IE. I also really like the IE7 beta. However, I am not an idiot, A lot of good tools for web development have been implemented as Firefox extensions. Web Developer – Firefox Extension – some way cool developer tools Sage – Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension…

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I’m seeing more sites that load slowly. Sites that need ten seconds or more to load [okcupid.com] over an idle DSL line are becoming common. Often, the delay is caused by page layout designed to delay loading until all the ads load. The renderer reformats frantically as the content trickles in. Sometimes it’s because the…

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“Were you at the Web 2.0 conference?” the arriving man asked, by way of thanking the other for saving his place. The kindly schmoe signified in the negative. This was all the encouragement our man needed to launch into an adjective-rich and fact-poor monologue that was loud enough for half the room to hear.It soon…

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Expect a podcast in the next day or two 🙂

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I am deeply indebted to Dr. Preston of SUNY Oswego, who published an exercise at http://www.oswego.edu/~srp/stats/burntime.htm entitled “Burning Matches,” in which he determines that 90% of Ohio Blue tip matches burn for between 55 and 61 seconds. I suspect his study includes the wooden part of the match burning as well. As for the chemical…

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