This morning I got my first random email asking if I am available for Rails consulting work and how much I charge. Cool! I guess posting my name on the Rails wiki was a good idea. The only embarrassing part is it links to a site that I haven't uploaded yet!

This morning, in a dream, I heard a song that I had never heard before. I heard it so clearly that it was still in my head even after waking up. Even now I can still remember the lyrics, though the melody is fading. Good times.

Good design is certainly not only something visually beautiful. I will yell it from the rooftops, design is communication! Which means: design is writing, design is organization, design is usability, and on and on. Design encompasses much more than you think.

Jason Santa Maria | Pretty Ugly

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MySpace is very much like a teenager’s bedroom…

Bokardo » Self-expression in Web Design

It may not be pretty, but as long as people can easily hang out virtually with their friends, it doesn’t have to be.

Vitamin Features » The MySpace problem

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And by beautiful holiday I don't mean that we need to go outside.

Jessica Small

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Last night I had a brief nightmare that while driving slowly I was rear-ended by a speeding semi-truck.

you know you're a programmer when "I don't have cash today" turns into "I don't have cache today"

Got to hang out with high school friend Nicki and her fiancee Julian. We ate brunch at the always-fantastic Mission Cafe. Afterwards we sat around and talked about music, and Julian played some of his electronic compositions for me. I gleaned a lot about electronic music composition and performance from him. Basically, it's all about Csound and pd ( Read more... )

Today I decided to check out and sign up on the San Diego Electronic Music Meetup Group. Seems like something I should check out next month. Maybe meet some people, learn a thing or two ( Read more... )

This morning I am trying to write Java using Ruby syntax. I had to remind myself that null does not evaluate to false and I'd need an equality operator to test things. Then I ended up testing it against nil anyway. D'oh!