I recently subscribed to last.fm for about 4 bucks a month. You get a few cool features that present your musical data in unique ways. One of them is a utility that combines pictures of your most listened to artists into a collage. Here you can see all the music I’ve been listening to over the last two years. There are also utilities to create timelines and tag clouds that are visually intriguing.
I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated but I just wanted to announce the recent site I’ve finished. http://www.commerce.gov/open
Department of Commerce
The site was built on Drupal and it is apart of the Open Government Initiative mandated by the Obama administration. Feel free to check out the site and add any feedback you may have regarding the new initiative.
I’m going to be reorienting the content of this site in the next coming weeks to reflect an open government perspective. I will also be focusing on web development, and most importantly Drupal.
A lot of people are heated over the government changing their policy on cookie usage. Most notably the ACLU. I’d like to try and clear this up for all the conspiracy theorists and paranoid people out there.
The reason they are using the “tracking” cookies and why they want to change the policy is important. Government websites are notoriously out of date and the reason they can’t take advantage of newer technologies is the policy against using persistent cookies. Now that the policy is possibly going to be changed the government plans on overhauling all the government websites to use the latest web technologies to better serve the public (you). This isn’t a big brother scheme to control your life. The only things these cookies tell the web servers are:
your IP address
any information YOU supply to the site (name, email, phone number)
when you visited and how long
This practice is no different than Google, Facebook, Twitter, or even this site. You can call it tearing down freedoms but it’s just a fact of modern web technology. These cookies are essential to how the web works and they enhance user experience.
I can’t wait for this to come out. Looks like I’ll have to upgrade my rig. Doom 3 was groundbreaking when it came out I can’t imagine what games are going to look like in five, even three years.
Above and Beyond is probably the hottest trance act on the scene right now. Every week they mix trance from all around the world, hence the name. I’ve pointed out this session in particular because it’s got a great mix of Dirty Vegas’ song Tonight. Check it out below. If you don’t want to download the whole set you can watch the YouTube video below too.
This is the ultimate way to stealthily share your most sacred torrents. It’s a pretty ingenious design too. The service converts your torrents into png files then you can decode them and download them later!
You save the png yourself. You can post it anywhere. People can decode it, but it can’t be searched for… it won’t turn up in searches for those torrents, unless you provide text that matches.
This is probably the funniest comic detailing the wretchedness of IE6 I’ve ever seen. As you know IE6 is the bane of every web designer and developer. Some people have just flat out stopped supporting it. And, it’s about time they did too. It’s 8 years old!! As a web community we need to start supporting HTML 5 and cSS 3 and look towards the future instead of supporting the past. If you’re still using IE6 at home you have no excuse. Please upgrade to IE8 or at least IE7.
