Random weblog of the day: Brilliant Corners
I’ve started clicking my own Blogtree link–not to be vain, but to browse Blogtree for other blogs that might be interesting reading. A lot of them are familiar, but every now and then I run into a cool weblog that engages my attention.
Accordingly, the first “random weblog of the day” here at JHN is Brilliant [...]
Too Southern for Atlanta?
Latest radio asinine moment: Country DJ fired for sounding too Southern — in Atlanta! Greg nails this one:
Like much of the rest of the industry country music has taken a nosedive — but that has nothing to do, so we’re told, with playlists programmed by committee, managers so out of touch that a quintuple-platinum [...]
Don Box: “Tolerance is great, but…”
“…vocal tolerance is even better. Keeping your tolerance to yourself only exacerbates the problem.”
Marriage counseling? Nope, he’s talking about the longstanding practice on the web that emphasizes generation of correct outgoing code but acceptance of incorrect incoming code. He points out, rightly I think, that unless you find a way to tell the source that [...]
Back from the weekend
I never got back to working on IM and weblogs on Saturday. We spent the morning at Pike Place Market. In the afternoon Lisa and I finally installed Roman blinds on the roof panels of our “solarium” — a little bay next to the kitchen and dining room, it’s constructed from six patio window panes, [...]
