iamcal.com Since May 2000

after a visit for the dentist for some routine extorsion, i'm in an undescribeable amount of pain. so bad i can't concentrate on anything. constructing this sentance is a real challenge. what have i done to deserve this?

this article on the Forer effect makes interesting reading. the average of 4.2 is suprising at first, util you try and score yourself on the paragraph.

i take back at least some of what i've said about the uk music charts - my favourite track from the latest belle and sebastian album is in the top twenty. nice to hear radio one playing something half decent.

codeville sounds interesting (and will be demoed at codecon if you want to know more). the only trick they seem to have missed is making a cvs compatibility layer - i'd love to just drop the server inplace of cvs and give it a whirl, but learning a new client syntax (and thus building new client side tools) is too much effort for a non-proven system.

is learning pi to 1500 digits any more than an impressive (geek) party trick? would it actually be useful in a mathematical sense, or even just in a memory training sense?

arp knows a thing or two about birds:

"it must be a lot easier to create a subaquatic survival suit for a bird than it would be to create a practical flying suit for a dolphin, especially as dolphins have low-mounted wings, a design which would make dolphins unstable in the air."

on the advice of a indie kid friend, i bought a pair of kristin hersh albums (sky motel and the grotto). in a word: stunning. the grotto, especially, i touching and sad, but with some excellent euphoric moments (listen to "Silver Sun"). definately my favourite album of the moment.

this color matcher thing is very nicely done. reminds me of some of the prototype stuff i was working on for a site several years ago which got abandonned for various reasons. after getting a call from a potential client today, i might get back into some dhtml stuff. such fun.

really annoying thing #474: people who send their mail from /outlook( express)?/ and request a delivery receipt for every single mail which requires me to click a fucking confirmation :/

went to see lowgold at lunchtime. they played a small set (four tracks) from their newish album "welcome to winners". in a small club under little portland street, it was for radio execs as far as i could make out (i built their website and their management invited us along). very good stuff. i recommend you buy their cd.