I've signed up for a free 2 week trial of Napster. I do not plan on keeping it. Here's the deal: for 10 dollars a month ($15 if you want to use a portable device) you can download an unlimited number of available tracks from the website. The tracks are DRMed, so that if you …
Category Archive: Computing
Feb 20 2005
Take it out back and shoot it
My Mac is, for all intents and purposes (or intensive purposes, if you don't like correctness and sense), dead. Definitely a hardware problem, most probably a motherboard problem. Not something, in short, that would be worth fixing, even if I had the money and inclination to do so. Poor guy. He was really spiffy when …
Feb 16 2005
Die, comment spam, die
WordPress has some fantastic comment-spam-blocking functionality built in. But if you try to comment about Texas, Poker, or Viagra (et cetera) your comment will be auto-deleted. Sorry. But I'm fairly certain those topics will never be relevant. So I don't care. If you're from Texas and want to say so, abbreviate it to TX or …
Jan 09 2005
MathML
I recently became interested, again, in how far along displaying math for the web has come. This was something I investigated awhile back, mainly in relation to how TeX could be converted to html. The answer, then, was that it could only be done very poorly. The solutions for converting directly from TeX to html …
Dec 22 2004
RIP Suprnova.org
Sunday morning was the start of an odd feeling, one that I still have. It's one of being disconnected, of having your way of life pulled out from under you, and not anymore knowing quite what to do. For over a year now we've had one single source of multimedia content, and while it did …