Idiotprogrammer: Texas Literary Blog

Month: November 2003

  • Open Source Geneology Program

    phpGedView Geneology Program looks cool. Try the demo

  • Scientific Puzzles

    Answers to perplexing scientific puzzles

  • Tech Savvy Survey

    Brian Bergstein summarizes the results of a Pew survey on Americans’ comfort level with technology. –Despite being plugged in to the Internet and other sources of data more often, only 13 percent of the tech-savvy crowd feels overwhelmed by information. By contrast, a sense of information overload plagues 25 percent of the rest of the…

  • Special Character/color reference

    Good reference guide for web colors, special characters and other things

  • Tips on Switching/Choosing Cell Phones

    Portability tips for consumers. Myrateplan.com (look at the cool interface!) . Don’t forget Amazon’s cellphone rebate page and Om Malik ‘s 5 Best Cell Phone Plans in USA.

  • Photos of Me

    I don’t know if this interests anybody out there, but I have made a page linking recent photos. Last week, I was looking at Matt Mullenweg’s lovely photogallery and thinking, gosh, I should really upload some of my own college photos. Ahh, memories. Next spring, I plan to work on an oral history video project.…

  • Epoz Release

    Release of Epoz’s Embedded GUI Editor for Zope. Check out the Epoz Demo Page.

  • Back in the Saddle Again!

    Hi, there, I’m back. Regular visitors may have noticed that this weblog and share the music weblog have been offline for almost a week. While trying to create a new weblog using mysql, it seems that I accidentally deleted the main mysql database. I didn’t have the time to get to it (long story), but…

  • Academic Jokes

    Two funny academic jokes. Henry Kissenger quote: “Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.” Another quote from a Harvard professor. (I read it in Newsweek in 1996 or so while in Albania). The only purpose of a college education is to reduce the amount of…

  • USB Faq

    Helpful FAQ about USB 2.0. Article about Building a budget storage solution. Webcamworld is a great source of webcam information. 10 more links to add (mostly literary). Later.

  • Random Writings

    Here’s an article I wrote about George Soros and American politics. I reprint it below the fold. Come to think of it, probably should link to my piece about whether artist vouchers would work . This was responding to Dean Baker’s fascinating proposal to give allow people to donate to artists using vouchers. I wrote…

  • DHTML Calendar

    Mihai Bazon has a cool DHTML/JS Calendar for selecting dates on an online form. Open Source. He writes an interesting piece about why he charges for software. Upon discussion, my friend (one of the founders of Interakt.ro) told me that the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) that is used to distribute the calendar allows…

  • CSS and Meaningful Classes

    Blog post by Style Guru Tantek Celik on how to use meaningful classnames for html attributes. Another site, quirksmode, talks about quirky browsers and CSS. BTW, I’ll be setting up a new blog or two tonight and actually look forward to using more modern layout techniques.

  • Nokia Phones

    Looking for a cellphone and plan. Leaning toward Nokia 3650 (Reviewed on TechTV and either ATT or T-Mobile. Here’s a nice page dedicated to the 3650. Any thoughts?

  • Cell Phone Games

    Midlet Reviews Cell Phone Games and is updated often.

  • Fake Detective

    A fascinating article by David Kushner on Celebrity Fakes and those who Expose Them. A quote from Trillian, a well known faker, The longer you fake, the less eager you are to distribute them… It might sound cocky, but I don’t make bad fakes anymore. When I started faking, I was just seeking acknowledgement. but…