April 2009 archive

Rearranging Plans for the Ryan Montbleau Band

After seeing Ryan Montbleau open for Martin Sexton last year, I became a fan. I bought his band's last two albums, Patience on Friday and One Fine Color, and listened to them somewhat regularly. I followed his MySpace blog. (Although really, Ryan, make the move to WordPress that you were considering! Don't make me associate [...]

Oh, the Pettiness... It Hurtses Us

I think I first learned about the web site Zen Habits when my sister sent me a link to this post: Open Source Blogging: Feel Free to Steal My Content, in which the blog's author, Leo Babauta, places all of his writing from the site and from his ebook Zen To Done into the public [...]

Some Friday Links

I think I found the first three of these while catching up on Jason Kottke's feed. Jason's site is a great place to lose vast stretches of time find interesting web pages. Many of my Twitter links are uncredited Kottke finds. :-)

For the Lost watchers out there: Vintage DHARMA ads from 70s magazines.
Detroit street with [...]

NetBeans Python Plugin

NetBeans speaks Python now! In my first pass at learning Python last year, I had looked around at IDE options and noted that NetBeans didn't seem to support it yet. Eclipse probably had a Python plugin at the time, but it may have seemed too daunting to try out. I can't remember now. In [...]

Seasonal Interest in Exercise Machines

A Google Trends graph of searches for "treadmill" and "elliptical" reveals an unsurprisingly persistent annual pattern:

Look at that mid-year surge in search volume for treadmills in 2006: What happened? Was Britney Spears photographed in a compromising position on a treadmill? (And I wonder how many people will now find this post in a [...]