David Cross skewers Pitchfork

Pitchfork Media is a pretty funny read with their more hipster than thou attitude.

Who better to skewer them than David Cross, on their own site even?

A little quote:

The virulent and hermetically sealed pinings of the world's only triple gold selling Native American artist living in an iron lung. It's as if newly dead, and thus still pure angels, reached down into The Virgin Mothers throat and gently lifted out the sweetest and most plaintive sounds man will ever hope to hear in this life.

Read the article. You know you want to.

By way of Salon.com's Audiofile.

Bloglines, or Keeping up with Information Overload

It seems I keep finding more news sites and blogs to keep up with, but keeping up with all of them has gotten to be a bit much. Just reading them normally in my browser worked for a while, but I read about a site called Bloglines a little while ago that looked like it was worth a try.

In Bloglines you subscribe to all of your blogs, then it keeps track of updates (using RSS feeds) and remembers which postings that you've read. It really helps when you read sites from multiple computers. It also lets you save postings to come back to, which works out much better than having a sea of post it notes, bookmarks, or emailing notes to yourself.

For Those About To Rock

My old roommate Colin has a band together!

Check out The Brilliants.

Download the mp3 goodness.

Why I Still Love Backwards Compatibility

I've written about backwards compatibility before. Well, it has reared its ugly head again as it always does anytime I have to do anything serious with Linux. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, in fact I'm writing this blog post on Linux.

The amount of time that I spend fighting to do small things that turn into big headaches due to lack of backwards compatibility is amazing at times.

My project at work right now is to put together some SOAP services using PHP. Only problem is, our server runs PHP4, and mature SOAP support only exists in PHP5. Of course, PHP5 breaks enough backwards compatibility with our existing code that migrating from PHP4 to 5 isn't an option right now. Sure, PHP4 has PEAR::SOAP, which seems very nice at first, but once I start doing anything complicated with it, it becomes clear that it requires a bit of polishing yet.

Where is Open Source's Raymond Chen?

Ignoring My Poor Blog

Yes, I've been ignoring the blog lately. Nice weather just means less blogging for me. If the weather isn't too spectacular, I manage to go back on the computer outside of work once in a while, but when the sun is shining I'm much more likely to leave it off.

New photo updates are up. It is a new photo set called Windy Picnic Point. I took it about two weeks ago and uploaded it soon after that, but I didn't take the time to post about it.