I was looking for a big project to mark 100 subscribers to my YouTube account (thanks everyone!) and I immediately thought of the first movement from Mozart’s Symphony no. 40 since it’s complex in scope but still Classical in the way the voices are treated meaning it’s not impossible to transcribe. I’ve condensed all [...]
If you’re a Mac user and you’ve ever used the keyboard shortcut to Force Quit applications (if you’ve never used it, upgrading to Snow Leopard will most definitely make it a necessity), you know that it’s alt-Apple-Escape. You’ve probably also noticed that from time to time, you bring up the dreaded “Front Row” menu [...]
After reading this post I was inspired to include a list of what we all can do to help make the machine smarter. Assuming that the internet will at some point include the “sum of all human knowledge” (quote from Wikipedia’s minions, but it really applies to the whole thing), these are some easy yet [...]
The first movement Allegro from Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto number 1 is built upon the conversational interplay among the 4 instrument groups: horns, reeds, high strings, and continuo. Bach mixes and matches them in all possible ways in between their simultaneous presentation and dismissal at the works beginning and end. It was therefore important [...]
You’ve probably seen those Themes that include something in the order of:
“By downloading and using this theme, you agree to link back to our site”
In this video, WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg talks about the WordPress GPL and how any works built on it need to follow the original license, meaning that Theme creators can’t rope [...]
I’ve been auditioning the two major competing Comment systems available for blogs today. I started out with Intense Debate, switched to Disqus, then switched back to Intense Debate. Both systems do fundamentally the same thing: they allow people to add comment threading, community, and a mass of features and plugins to the standard install of, [...]