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Obama.

Edmond — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:24:36 +0000

I am still trying to wrap my head around this amazing development. Through the numbing fog of cynicism and despite a generalized suspicion of politics, I was genuinely moved when Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech. It really does feel monumental and historic. What happened in CA with Prop (h)8, though? Lame.

Election Day!

Edmond — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:17:01 +0000

Want some pro-bama songs to keep you going while waiting for returns? An old favorite music blog ¿Revolución, No? has risen again to share some tunes. My favorites: Cocoa Tea - Barak Obama Mariachi Aguilas de Mexico - Viva Obama! Go to the original post to get more, including “There’s No One As Irish As Barack O’Bama.”

my song got played on rinse fm!

Edmond — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:41:05 +0000

I forgot to post this before. My dubstep tune “worldwide” got played on DJ Distance’s new talent section of his Rinse FM show on 6 May 2008. Unfortunately, he credited me as dj number instead of dj mumbler, but I was excited anyway. The podcast can be grabbed here: http://rinsefm.blogspot.com/2008/05/distance-6th-may.html [update 8 Oct 2008] It seems that rinsefm.blogspot.com has cleared out their [...]

Problem with input focus on Safari

Edmond — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:29:42 +0000

I had a javascript hiccup, and I think the solution may be helpful to others. The basic setup is this: Limited space means no room for labels in a login form. So instead we used a preset value in the input elements, like so: <input value="Username" name="username" type="text" /> <input value="Password" name="password" type="text" /> Which looks like this: The easy way to blank out the [...]

2007 Music Rewind

Edmond — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:51:51 +0000

Ah, it’s that time of the year again. “Best of” list time. While 2007 has been a pretty active year for new releases, I found that I kept going back to the same albums — which were not necessarily the ones whose releases I anticipated the most. By the way, a lot of the music I’ve enjoyed the most [...]

Why I closed my Facebook account

Edmond — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:46:28 +0000

The NY Times has published a column in its Bits Blog that summarizes the evolution of Facebook’s Beacon advertising program. I think that it is more revealing than focusing on the backlash or petitions to actually examine the program itself, along with the supposed improvements made by Facebook along the way. The column does a good job [...]

Egypt photos

Edmond — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:44:44 +0000

Photos of a 10-day whirlwind of sightseeing along the Nile River are now online: View photos

Off to Egypt!

Edmond — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:13:37 +0000

image uploaded to latimes.com by Irvine resident The hills around my office are on fire. Part of a huge firestorm in Southern California. The air is filled with smoke, and close to half a million people have been evacuated from their homes in surrounding areas, but life remains strangely familiar. The dusky sunlight gives an eerie cast [...]

5-foot Nintendo controller

Edmond — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:46:59 +0000

Possibly the coolest pointless project I’ve ever heard of… This 83-pound, 5-foot long NES controller actually works. You can play games, but it takes the coordination of at least two people to manage it. http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/present.php?p=Nintendo

New digs

Edmond — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:59:13 +0000

I just finished the most painless server transition I’ve ever experienced. My hosting deal with godaddy was about to renew, so I looked around for another deal, and I ended up going with bluehost.com. Here’s the vitals: 300 Gigabyte Hosting Space Host Unlimited Domains 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts 3,000 GIGS of Transfer SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL $7.95/month when you buy a year. $6.95 [...]