Yearly Archives: 2008

The Cities I’ve Been To, 2008

Inspired by Jason Kottke, a list of the cities I visited in 2008. Columbia, MD Madrid, Spain Vera, Spain Seville, Spain Granada, Spain Frederick, MD Fall’s Church, VA Harrogate, England Kitty Hawk, NC Brick, NJ Oak Ridge, NC Blacksburg, VA I spent one or more nights in each of these cities. I went to Spain … (Continue reading →)


Shelfari

I recently joined Shelfari, which my dad described to me as Last.fm for books. Your profile consists of your shelf, to which you can add books that you have read, are currently reading, or plan to read. You can search for any book by title, author, ISBN, and other attributes. The site has a slick … (Continue reading →)


The Illusion of Safety by Thrice

The first Thrice song I ever heard was on the Atticus: …dragging the lake, Vol. 2 compilation. When I first heard To Awake and Avenge the Dead, I was in my car alone and I must have listened to it five times on repeat. I had discovered Thrice, and I immediately knew that they were … (Continue reading →)


Blog Comment Design

I updated my blog comments from the Hemingway default to a more iconic design. A post about blog comments that I saw a few weeks ago inspired me to use the “big number” idea for my own comments. I also enabled Gravatars and have highlighted my own comments when I make them. I have posted … (Continue reading →)


Yahoo! Weather Feeds With Python

Download the weather script from GitHub. UPDATE: Chris Lasher updated my script. It now utilizes optparse and docstrings. Some of the options have been changed, too, and I have licensed the code under a by-nc-sa CC license. I have updated this post to reflect these changes. Thanks, Chris! I believe that everyone likes to know … (Continue reading →)