Ok, not exactly fired. But my current employment arrangement will be coming to a close at the end of March. So, if you’re looking for an experienced ColdFusion developer who loves Web Standards, is rock solid with CSS, knows some PHP, and is a very enthusiastic and quick learner, have a look at my resume(soon to be updated), and get in touch.

This kicks so much ass it’s not funny. Goodbye Mapquest, goodbye Yahoo Maps… this is beautiful.

Tweedy of Wilco, in a conversation with Lawrence Lessig:

“Music,” he explained, “is different” from other intellectual property. Not Karl Marx different – this isn’t latent communism. But neither is it just “a piece of plastic or a loaf of bread.” The artist controls just part of the music-making process; the audience adds the rest. Fans’ imagination makes it real. Their participation makes it live. “We are just troubadours,” Tweedy told me. “The audience is our collaborator. We should be encouraging their collaboration, not treating them like thieves.”

I could play with this thing all day.

Tired of Being Isolated and Ignored, Continent Isn’t Bloody Moving

R.I.P. Ossie Davis. The legendary actor and civil rights champion has left this world. He will be missed.

Went to Retro 90’s night at Barrymore’s last night. Overall, it was a good time… just a few notes:

#1, The 90’s are over?! Damn…

#2, Why is it that at 90’s night, all the guys are in their 30’s but all the girls are in their 20’s…? (According to John, “Because all the women our age are at home taking care of the kids!”)

#3, When Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit came on, there was a moment where you could sense everyone look around, consider, and then realize: “Yep, we’re entirely too old for moshing…”

#4, Saw some dudes from High School there who are not ageing well at all. Made me feel better about myself.

#5, The 90’s were a great decade for music. How the DJ’s last night managed to play so much of the bad stuff, I don’t understand…

Time for the obligatory occasional apology for the lack of posts recently. Very busy indeed. Hope to get back to a more regular schedule soon. In the meantime, be sure to check out my Flickr photostream to see what I’ve been taking pictures of, and my Audioscrobbler page to see what I’ve been listening to. Y’know, if that kind of thing interests you.

I bought a Linksys BEFSX41 Firewall Router a while back and soon after began having some strange problems – certain websites were not resolving (including Blogger and Flickr!!!)… for a while I thought it was something with the DNS server settings, or even my ISP’s DNS servers themselves… I tried all kinds of settings and Googled everything I could imagine. Finally, I came across this beta firmware upgrade for the router which ended up fixing the problems. Just in case you’re having the same problems.

Mark Evans: “Internet users must either be lazy, ignorant or strangely satisfied with IE. If more people explored the alternatives out there -which would likely encourage developers to come up with new browsers – I believe surfing the Web will become a better experience. With IE dominating – and some would say controlling – the market, we are only scratching the surface of what the Web can offer.”