Archive for January, 2007
Wow. Just wow.
25Jan07 Tom just made me listen to the Progressive Folk Metal station on last.fm. It’s fucking rad. Make sure you read the descriptions.
Orphaned Land is a progressive metal band from Israel. It combines oriental elements and Jewish tradition with slow doom/death metal. Orphaned Land is in the core a doom/death band, but it was [...]
The myth of DRM and piracy
15Jan07My old friend Ken Fisher at Ars Technica just posted an editorial where he states that “DRM’s sole purpose is to maximize revenue by minimizing your rights and then selling them back to you.” The thing is, that’s just half the story. Sure, the content providers want their buck, but so do the hardware [...]
Christmas pics + Corgi videos
03Jan07Hardy relaxing + a surprise
Chloe, Trudy, and Hardy playing
Dad playing with the golf ball puzzle
Chloe relaxing in her elf costume. (More photos)
Japanese UI designers rock
02Jan07
Why is it that I’m not surprised that the forefront of user interface design is Japan? My buddy Brian is in Toyko now, and took a video tour through one of the famous gadget/cell phone stores in Akiba.
I love that Japanese phones have cool, power-user interfaces–exactly the kind of thing I’d like on my [...]
Back in San Francisco
02Jan07 We just returned to San Francisco after a long trip back to TN. (I’ll post some pictures to Flickr later tonight or tomorrow.)
We spent a lot of time with the families, watched the dogs alternately sniff and fight each other, and then ran them all over my parent’s farm. Definitely a good time, [...]
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