My brother, Eric, was the Director of Photography on a feature film called Things To Do. The film is directed, written and starring a couple of his friends: Theodore Bezaire and Mike Stasko. It was in a couple film festivals last year and has received some good reviews. If you're in the Chicago area, go check it out on the Jan 12th weekend at the Gene Siskel Film Theater (apologies for the messy website!). I'll be checking it out (for the first time) either Friday or Monday.

It's also opening in Portland, Oregon this weekend too. And hey, if you're in Canada, apparently you can buy it at Blockbuster as well as Amazon.ca, Chapters and Cinema1.

§330 · January 10, 2007 · Entertainment, Life, Movies · Comments Off on Things To Do in Chicago: “Things To Do” ·


Well, my prediction was spot on: Pandora now has audio ads in trial form. Nothing too exciting I suppose, just another service riding the Crap Wave. It's still nowhere near as choked as radio, but it'll get there - it has to, the money is there for the taking. Read the rest of this entry ...

§328 · January 9, 2007 · Entertainment, Life · Comments Off on Pandora Sliding and Product Placement · Tags:


Two years ago I kicked off this blog in a very understated way. By WordPress's calculations, I've had 306 posts in that time. Here are some highlights of the two years: Read the rest of this entry ...

§325 · January 5, 2007 · Life, Linux, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on My Blog Turns Two Years Old ·


Via Dive Into Mark. Brilliant!

§304 · December 7, 2006 · Kids, QuickLinks, Technology · Comments Off on REST for Toddlers ·


Apparently the Chicago area is supposed to be hit with the biggest snowstorm in 28 years for December 1st. So, in celebration, I've turned on the snow in my blog header. For those with cool web browsers like Firefox 1.5+ or Opera 9 (or even the not-cool browser Internet Explorer with the Adobe SVG Viewer plugin) you might need to right-click in the image frame to force reload ... or wait until your browser's cache pops. For those curious, the SVG does not display at all using Emiasys' Renesis plugin ... pooh.

Anyway, sorry for the CPU hit, but 'tis the season. If anyone can let me know if a Safari nightly build displays the snow yet, that would be awesome - you can consider it your Christmas present to me.

Hm, I wonder if I should try to modify the library to use the Dojo2D API in the Dojo toolkit for that true cross-browser effect. That might prove to be a fun little project and a good way to dip my toe in the Ajax toolkit pool...

[Update: Merry Christmas to me. Allan Jardine tells me in his comment below that it's snowing in Safari too. Great news!]


§297 · November 30, 2006 · Adobe, Ajax, Firefox, JavaScript, Life, Opera, RIA, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 1 comment ·