The coolest part of having a website is seeing that people I’ve never met, from places I’ve never been, have looked at something I’ve done.  For the last day of the year, I just want to list the places that have sent traffic to this website.  I think this is really exciting, and really interesting. [...]

1) The idea of beautiful programming books representing the connection between art and programming is an interesting one. I think that there is an “art” to programming, but I don’t think there is really a direct connection. As a musician, I have a very formal vision of an “artist”, and knowing many programmers, [...]

Raluca Bucur has found me!

Microsoft is claiming that a working version of IE8 is showing the smiley, and has passed the Acid2 test. Even if Microsoft is lying, this means that at the very least, someone there is using a browser that can pass!
[that, or they stole the screenshot from some place!]

As you might have noticed, I’ve been a bit pre-occupied recently. And likely will be so in the future. So a design for this site has once again been placed on the back burner. I am good for a tweak-ing, however.
Looks fine in Firefox 2 for mac/pc. Opera, has a small [...]

Yes, if you happen to see some weird things going on, I am tweaking the CSS on the site.  Live.  See me work, or become annoyed and return when I’m finished.

Washington Post - Obituaries
Friday, December 14, 2007; Page B07
Jean Edward Welker - NASA Physicist
Jean Edward Welker, 72, who spent 50 years as a physicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, died Dec. 5 of heart disease at Washington Hospital Center. He lived in Laurel.
Mr. Welker was a specialist in examining climate patterns in [...]

In an effort to keep my mind occupied elsewhere, here are a couple of distractions to share.
The Magical Minimalism of Microformat - The New York Times tipping their hat to Microformats
Internet Explorer 8 - Please don’t be lying, please don’t be lying, please don’t be lying…
Email Standards Project - Please turn out to [...]