After some careful consideration, I have decided to participate in Google's AdSense Referrals program, which pays website owners when their visitors download a number of software packages or join AdSense or AdWords. I chose Mozilla Firefox, as you can see by the button on the sidebar to the right. While the technical nature of many [...]
Tony Gambone's post about adapting my Pitchfork RSS feeds to work with their Best New Music section inspired me to redo some of the feeds. Since I previously changed the reviews feed to include an actual description of the review with its rating (thanks to Chris Thacker for suggesting this), it made sense to change [...]
The standard download of Apple's popular QuickTime software comes bundled with their iTunes application. While a standalone QuickTime download does exist, it is difficult to find.
My thoughts on the news that three prisoners at the American prison in Guantánamo have committed suicide by hanging themselves with their own bedsheets.
The Decemberists' last blog post was in February, and while their message board does have RSS feeds, it is also members-only (thanks God for BugMeNot), so I do not visit it often. As a result, I must get my Decemberists news from Pitchfork, where I learned from their exclusive phone call with Colin Meloy that [...]
My thoughts on switching all of my email accounts to Google's GMail service.
Using Ben de Groot's drop-in replacement for wp-atom.php, I quickly and simply updated this blog's Atom 0.3 feed to Atom 1.0. If this negatively affects you, let me know. Otherwise, rejoice!
From the New York Times' World Cup blog comes information about a site entitled Who Should I Cheer For?. It purports to tell you which team you should, based a number of non-football related indicators, like human rights, military spending, and the number of multinational companies that call the country home.
Partly because of that last [...]
Tagged Africa, Culture, development, football, Ghana, International, soccer, sports, Who Should I Cheer For, World Cup, World Development Movement
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Pitchfork Media introduces official RSS feeds. Martey rejoices.
After having repeatedly running into people who were using the new public beta of Flock (released just two days ago), a browser based on Mozilla Firefox that sports heavy integration with various Web 2.0 services (including Flickr, del.icio.us, and blogging), I decided to give it a try.The fact that it is a Mozilla-based browser gives [...]
I install Windows Vista Beta 2 on a computer with a Celeron processor and 256 MB.
The New York Times takes a look at the cholera epidemic currently striking Angola. As the article makes blatantly clear, the epidemic is not the result of the Angolan government suffering from a lack of resources - its exports of oil and diamonds support a thriving economy. Rather, the outbreak, which started in February, is [...]
Several viewers of the Ghana-Czech Republic game in the World Cup seemed confused as to why Ghanaian player John Pantsil was waving an Israeli flag as the Ghanaians beat the Czechs, 2-0. I have heard many explanations, including one suggesting that it was a repudiation of Holocaust denial!
Since a number of people have been directing [...]
It is 4am in the morning. Nobody is using the Internet. What happens when I do a search on popular blog search engine Technorati?
The above error message admit that something is wrong. Occasionally when trying to search, Technorati will claim that there are zero results, even on common words like "Bush," "blogging," and "Apple."
The official Pitchfork RSS feeds that I previously reported on are back. I assume that they are a permanent feature of the website, so I am yet again removing my feeds. Unlike the previous iteration of the Pitchfork "redesign," the website now has permalinks (which work!) and categories (which do not).
ReverseIndexLookup.com is a website that purports to let you track people by just a phone number, email address, or drivers' license. Despite the URL and title both referring to ReverseIndexLookup, all of the text and images on the page (as you can see on the left) refer to either ReverseRecords or "Reverse Records Finder." This [...]
A very long post about graduating from Harvard; not reading enough; and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Over two thousand words! Nine footnotes! Four pictures! One very long digression!