Some day I need to write a long piece about snow.  Living here in the Canadian snow belt, I'm endlessly fascinated by it.  Most of the people I know give little or no thought to the weather; but out here, one needs to pay close attention to it, as it…

Over the holidays (they're not done yet for me) I've traded in my computer for my kitchen.  Apologies to those of you who live on a stable diet of what I write here--I've been feeding others.  Cooking as much as I have, I've had to restock many ingredients in our…

Wild turkeys walk side-by-side along the furrows of a snowy field, black against the white.  Notes on a musical staff, a song I hum as I drive on.…

The wind is furious that we have dared to come outside. We enter the woods quickly, and a door closes behind us. We are inside. This is the storehouse of winter. Here the snow is piled deep. Here the cones and berries are in abundance. Here are the trees. We…

I’m working on a project to try and expose audio spectrum data from Firefox’s audio element.  Today I ponder arrays and fix some things. Today is my last day of work before the Christmas break begins, and I just submitted my final grades.  This gave me a little…

I don't usually give much credence to The Register, but this article on .NET's 10 year anniversary was spot on.  The article asks whether .NET has lived up to its original promises from 2000.  Here's a choice quotation from the conclusion: What if Microsoft used it? A long-standing gripe is…

I’m working on a project to try and expose audio spectrum data from Firefox’s audio element.  Today I get raw data into the browser. This blog post was going to be very different than the one you see now.  That's because our DOM code kicked my ass all…

I’m working on a project to try and expose audio spectrum data from Firefox’s audio element.  Today I add a new event to the audio element. Last time I wrote that "I’m going to have to get this wrong before I get it right."  So…

I’m working on a project to try and expose audio spectrum data from Firefox’s audio element.  Today I give an update on yesterday's progress, since there are pretty pictures, and then ask some questions. Yesterday I wrote about our first steps to find and extract audio spectrum data…

“God bless Tiger. This week, we got a huge uplift,” Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said Tuesday in New York. She explained that the Tiger Woods sex scandal is more profitable online than Michael Jackson’s death because it’s easier to sell ads that appear alongside juicy content than funeral…