geek of technology

i was stunned when i read this article about the hype machine that is ZAP.  it made me change my mind about most evil company ever — no more does microsoft hold that title: ZAP is the new most evil company ever.  in fact, the article was so bad (not the article actually, but the […]

with some hacking and clever googling i think i’ve installed everything i need for RubyOnRails.  i’m not positive though, and i won’t really know for sure until i start really hacking my first program.  i had to find several different installation howtos to be sure i did everything.  i’m pretty sure the ubuntu community documentation […]

i’ve decided to learn RubyOnRails.  Rails is a programming language/framework that comes with some prepackaged “programming shortcuts” which allow developers to write programs much faster.  it’s more of a “do this” and the app actually does that sort of thing as opposed to writing lines and lines of code for weeks to make it “do […]

so just about all i blog about these days is how the web design gig is going. that probably has something to do with the fact that i’ve been dreaming CSS lately. well this post won’t be any different. and i’m still f’ing dreaming CSS… we recently hit a landmark accomplishment. when we were first […]

okay, so, yes, i’m one of the, like, 12 people who cares, BUT:i’m cleaning up a site for a friend of mine that i work with who runs a nonprofit.  and he shows me the site on his macbook and there’s some huge glaring layout problems including a gigantic DONATE button smack in the middle of […]

file this under: i didn’t know you could do that i am now effectively feeding my blog into facebook.  that’s pretty f’ing spiff. —————- Now playing: “Cat Power – Nude as the News.mp3” via FoxyTunes

i found this snippet on slashdot today, which says that p2p downloaders (read: music pirates) buy more music according to a study commissioned by the Canadian government (more and more i’m thinking that, despite popular american opinion, canadians RAWK). now this is something i’ve known for years, because it’s precisely the case for me. with […]

so i was checking my gmail yesterday, i think looking to see if i could route my heritage mail to gmail, or something like that, maybe i was just killing time, when i noticed a thing that said something to the effect of add you domain email here. so, i decided to check that out […]

so i configured some (more) virtual hosts in apache and redid my custom error pages.  the error pages got reset after apache got updated recently, so i had to redo them.  you can see a 403 forbidden error here and a 404 not found error here. and i also set up the following subdomains: music.jazzsequence.com […]

at the bottom of my site you will see a new flash widget thing.  it’s a promo for the new Saul Williams album which was done with Trent Reznor and is supposedly the next chapter in the Year Zero saga.  or at least supplementary material.  Trent said a couple weeks ago on his blog that […]

ok, so this would have been better with the visual, but, as it turns out, while i wasn’t looking (read: while it’s been sitting on the desk, not plugged in, acting as a malformed and warped shelf for junk), my scanner up and died.  dead, no pulse, doa, unliving, dead dead dead.  so.  you’ll have […]

i’ve added a couple hacks to the site to dissuade viewers from using internet explorer, including a javascript-powered microsoft-free weekend.  back in the early 00’s, microsoft-free friday was a thing.  this was around when firefox was just starting to gain momentum.  there were a couple of ways of implementing msff — one was an apache […]