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After seeing MusicBrainz pop up on my del.icio.us popular page, I went and checked it out. I tried using it on my barrel of MP3’s that I had no hope of ever fully classifying, or really figuring out where they came from. I was shocked, not only at how well the program worked, but how [...]

As Floyd Gondolli once said I like simple pleasures, like butter in my ass, lollipops in my mouth. That’s just me. That’s just something that I enjoy. While in the past I’ve certainly enjoyed a tad more musical variety than Joe American, so much of my musical taste essentially comes down to three questions: Is [...]

Today is the one year anniversary of my first date with Megan Epp. I realize that I haven’t posted very much here about Megan, but that hasn’t been because she’s not very important to me. Indeed, nothing could be further from the truth. I met Megan online at OKCupid which is an absolutely fantastic site. [...]

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I’ve finished a non-trivial Google Maps integration for one of my Rails apps. No offense, but the Cartographer library has quite some way to go, but it was an excellent starting point. I hope to be able to contribute some interesting functionality to it in the near-term future.

With five more days left at Dominion, I just got a request for a major new piece of functionality. Let’s see if I can whiz through this fellow! I appear to have finally cracked the final barrier for the jsCalcLib library, which is a big plus in more ways than one. That means it’s a [...]

In the vein of leaving myself illuminating notes here, if you’re looking for a way to access your JavaScript object a bit more like a hash, the construct you’re looking for is the for / in loop.

I’ve both updgraded the blog to run off Typo trunk, and rolled back to the default theme. I am working on a theme that I’ll use for this blog, just in case the Typo theme contest doesn’t turn up any that I think are awesome. I’ve abandoned the notebook look for now.

It’s been sort of a rough week, even though I’ve been enjoying myself in general. My dad’s job at Capital One was eliminated, so now I’m preparing a “Can Web 2.0 get my dad a job?” blog post. I needed a new set of tires, which I got yesterday. This was precipitated by having to [...]