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Once again, host Dick Gordon manages to suck the life out of an interesting topic…
Monthly Archive for March, 2005
“hopeless friend”, posted by nedward
Presley is in nyc for a conference, but that didn’t stop me from leaving the house last night. I caught Graham Coxon, former guitarist for a little britpop outfit called Blur.
I love Graham’s new album, Happiness in Magazines, and was delighted to find out that he also puts on a hell of a show, for such a shy guy. His vocals especially were quite strong, though he freaked out and stopped in the middle of a song because the lighting guy put a spot on him…
My first Blur show was in March of ‘97, in the Middle East Downstairs, when I was a freshmen (yikes) in college. Rivers Cuomo was hanging out at the bar, Damon soaked me with water from his many bottles, and Graham mostly sulked in the corner, strumming veraciously. That was the best concert I have ever seen.
Seeing Graham kind of makes me wish he was still in Blur, and they were still playing little clubs…
Some old posts about Blur and related projects:
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This Kelly Clarkson meme just won’t quit…
I watched a bit of “FoodTV”:http://foodtv.com/ on Sunday, and suffered through “Rachael Ray”:http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/rachael_ray/0,1974,FOOD_9928,00.html and her _awful accent_ and _mannerisms_… I’ve never _once_ wanted to eat anything she cooks, because she annoys me _so much_.
But _after_ Rachael, a delightful woman came on, who I’ve never seen before: “Giada De Laurentiis”:http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/hosts_celebrity_chefs/article/0,1974,FOOD_9889_1842136,00.html, and she apparently cooks “Italian”:http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ei. Sure, she’s _hot_, but the production values on this show are a little more modern, (think “Nigella”:http://www.nigella.com/), with nice lighting and editing.
The show was so pleasant to watch, I ended up cooking her “Steak Salad”:http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/cda/recipe_print/0,1946,FOOD_9936_26400_PRINT-RECIPE-FULL-PAGE,00.html for Presley and I last night. I went a little overboard on the _Gorgonzola_, but I really love the creamy taste. And, you can never have too much cheese, right?
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“…giving out models to selected users, setting them up with a blog, and having them document their experiences…”
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i love his stuff — especially the artwork for Blur’s last album Think Tank
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“…you can get a look at what del.icio.us users are saying about (or at least how they are tagging) nearly any web page…”(categories: del.icio.us tags)
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Veerle provides a nice little summary…
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I do this same method — Ch*aptickets.com is my worst offender
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a shot across the bow…(categories: weblogs)
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pretty cool shots…
A Club Sandwich without bacon, is not a Club Sandwich.
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The Boston Globe (sic) reports on a successful Craigslist “missed connection”
When I’m designing and building a website, I dread the point where I’ll have to shift from working locally, to working on the server. Once the initial layout and CSS is done, it’s time to start scripting with PHP, and pulling content in from MySQL databases — and time to fire up _ye olde FTP_. This constant uploading is frustrating, and gives me _carpal tunnel_…
I’ve always known that it was possible to set up PHP & MySQL locally, as Mac OSX has the Apache web server built-in… but, that always seemed like such a hassle. After a few minutes of tinkering, I’d throw my hands up and think, _wouldn’t it be helpful if someone put together an easy install package?_
Well, somebody has… MAMP promises to be my salvation:
bq. MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge.
This should speed things up considerably, and allow me to work without an internet connection… on the plane, in the park, etc.
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a resource for the pimping of Apple’s Safari web browser
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sounds like a nice arrangement(categories: weblogs)
Well, it’s official — the worst kept secret around, Flickr was “acquired”:http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/21/technology/yahoo.reut/ by Yahoo!, and was announced on the “Flickr”:http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/03/yahoo_actually_.html Blog:
bq. Holy smokes, SOMEBODY out there is bad at keeping secrets!! Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the champagne corks!
My initial reaction, as an avid Flickr “user”:http://flickr.com/photos/nedward/, is very _wait-and-see_. Despite the “occasional downtimes”:http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002505.php, I’ve been impressed by how they’ve managed to scale up, as the site has grown exponentially. But obviously, there comes a point where a Yahoo! can really help.
What I’m worried about most, was only slightly defelected in Caterina’s post — it’s not that Yahoo! will get “flickrized”, but that Flickr would end up “Yahooed!”:
bq. Yahoo Photos will get a lot of Flickr features, and there are alot of other areas around Yahoo that will also be Flickrized where Flickrization would be good.
That’s not reassuring… I guess we’ll _wait-and-see_.
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“…because of the pair’s differing approach to launching new products…”
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interface for your mac and tv
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I still can’t beleive Dave is a dad
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Is the reign of Verdana, Arial, Georgia and Times New Roman over?
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nice little Firefox extension, which creates a sidebar full of Flickr images
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try as you might, Toyota-san, nobody under 40 wants your cars…
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Apparently there is a new documentary on the most famous art-theft in history
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i finally tried this out, and it works quite nice…
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whether they were actual Feds, or not, this is scary…(categories: politics Republicans)
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How the iPod Ran Circles Around the Walkman…
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hooray! One of the things that Outlook does very well, comes to OS X
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A-list authors explain their processes for doing large-scale CSS sites
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They finally inked the deal…
