Archives for December 2005

Wordpress 2.0 is out

Take care with your migration and good luck.

Favorville, an idea whose time has come

Still in its infancy (beta) and with a small base at this time, Favorville is a great idea.
Favorville.com is a social networking tool which provides members with the opportunity to help and be helped by others. With Favorville, members can post help requests, offer help and help grow the community. Favorville makes it easy to [...]

Pandora’s music recommendations are good

I’ve been poking around at Pandora lately and it’s pretty impressive. Briefly, Pandora is a music recommendation service. You start by simply typing the name of an artist or song you like. Pandora does some work for a few seconds, then starts playing music very similar to your choice. Buying a [...]

Pencils… “for women”

Four or five years ago, I had a flare-up of a previous bitch session. Someone or something happened to get me back on the “X… For Women!” rant. I knew how I felt about it then: Lame bullshit for lame women. A lengthy discussion took place with a few friends in a [...]

Today sucks

It just does. I’d rather be digging a ditch than sitting here in front of this PC trying to muster any motivation to work on the interesting (but not to me) projects on my plate. I’m serious. A ditch.

Flickr-Found: Laurent Peters

Now and then I stumble across some decent artwork on Flickr. The name Laurent Peters keeps jumping out quite a bit lately. Don’t expect to be blown away or have to stare at something abstract for 10 minutes. It’s almost all very simple subjects as entries to the “Every Day Matters” Flickr [...]