Freeing Music, DIY style
Great Dick Dale Interview where he talks about how artists can work within their own means to be free of commercial control of Music Labels. Posted by Timothy Washington on 2007.06.08 | Original post #archive #frye #thebox
Timothy Washington
A Programmer's Progress: Developing The Bkeeping Language
Throughout my Software career, I've always tried to build my skill set on top of each other. Learning and becoming proficient with the visitor pattern and recursive design in general leapt my coding skills to a much higher level than they had previously been. Learning to write my
Loonie vs. Greenback
Holy @#$!!! The Canadian dollar should be on par with the US dollar by the end of the year, according to banking economists. I knew the pound and euro have been incredibly more expensive than the greenback for a few years now, but this is getting... well fun for us. British
Founders At Work
There are certain things that just make me feel good. The book "Founders At Work" by Jessica Livingston, a founding partner at Y Combinator is one of them. The book is in interview format, with Jessica as interviewer. I've gone through the Apple (Steve Wozniak), Gmail
Fired Founders
How does this happen? I was recently reading on Laughing Squid how the founders of JPG Magazine left 8020 Publishing, the company they founded, due to being pushed out by corporate management. I had a weary chuckle because I feel exactly the same way that Aaron Schwartz does about corporate
Comfort ( easy easy mix )
Oye guys. Enjoy the beautiful summer weather with some tunes. Easy breezy from Montreal :-) SONGS Sunny James Brown; Cepok Matovs; Strange Days The Doors; Surface To Air Zombi; Revolution Solution (TC Remix) ThieveryCorporation; Once Upon A Time Air; Nitefall Keynote Productions; Rocketta al Sol (Ramblas mix) Los Ladrones; Quiet
More Fuel for the DSL Fire
For quite a few years, I've thought power of custom languages will be the future of software development. And there's gathering momentum for this view as well. I first read of the idea of Language Oriented Programming in this article by JetBrains dude, Sergey Dmitriev. I
Q. How the @#$% do I get the US(English version) of Google when I'm in Germany.
When you are in Germany and try to go to google.com, you'll be redirected to google.de, with all your search results given in German. This is annoying if you want English results. Soooo... A. I entered www.google.us and got www.google.com/webhp, google&
Travelling
OK, I'm off to Dusseldorf for a few weeks of training. I figure music is always a good send-off. Enjoy. Travelling SONGS The Robots Kraftwerk; People Dan Berkson (Satoshi Tomiie - Disc 1); My Suitor Buscemi; Tears Satoshi Tomiie (Satoshi Tomiie - Disc 2 ); Angel Of L.A.
The Border (A beginning to an end)
Lonely, cross-eyed with stars in them. Lost for words, empty. Vacant. Nothing, reaching, endless. Twenty hung there like... The border does this to a guy. Especially when a woman is on the other side of it. He hung there in the sky and stared into the desert night. The orange
Bookkeeping Release Pre-Alpha
'Bookkeeping' is finally here. It can be downloaded from Bob's sourceforge account. Remember that an EOF character must be entered at the end of an expression. So on a Mac, enter "create ( debit ); Ctrl-D Ctrl-D", and on a DOS prompt, enter "create ( debit
Bookkeeping BKeeping and the BKell
INTRODUCTION This is a short description of ‘Bookkeeping’, a double-entry bookkeeping software package I'm about to release. There are 3 parts to the program: 'Bookeeping', the software proper; 'BKeeping', the language that implements bookkeeping commands; and 'BKell', the shell in which you