As I’ve been reading “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” I found myself wanting for maps of the era. Political boundaries were vastly different as well as names of geographic features. Although many of the geographical names are the same, Gibbon refers to them by their names in his time (the Euxine […]
Archive for December, 2005
Historical Mapping
Zip Decoder
I came across a programming language that I hadn’t heard of before: processing. I haven’t looked real in depth into the language structure but sounds like it is a high level language, overlaid on a java implementation (I’m assuming to give it cross platform capabilities). The thing that caught my eye about it […]
Fun Science Projects
I always enjoy doing science projects with my kids because I get to see the excitement of discovering something new in them. I came across a site that I believe I will be frequenting to find new experiments that we can do: Sci-toys.com looks like lots of fun.
Oragami
I came across this site the other day and it looks like lots of fun. I haven’t made oragami for years but enjoyed doing it as a child. It always fascinated me how I could take a single piece of paper and create something so far removed from a mere piece of paper.
Alessi “Tondo” Watch 7003
I enjoy watches and the various designs that exist out there for them. I just came across one that is reasonably priced and an elegant design: The Alessi “Tondo” Watch 7003. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a cleaner design for a watch. If you’re ever wondering to get me as […]
Bound for Glory
Over the past few years I’ve enjoyed reading my father’s history as he ties in so many layers of history to his own. Sort of in the spirit of the historical fiction of Forrest Gump, but not fiction and definitely more in depth. I came across this on Digg today and thought it […]
Birthday Party
New Pics up: krisandtom.com
Less is More
I really enjoyed this article over at www.basement.org. A great reminder that less is more in lots of things. I’d like to try and incorporate that more in my music writing to help emphasize things better. Probably could stand to do it more frequently in lots of areas of my life.
Wikipedia and the alterable state of things
I’ve browsed Wikipedia for multiple years now and have found it to be such a helpful resource when I need to look up something . So much easier than pulling out the old Brittanica’s looking up things in the Micropedia (or is it the Macropedia first?) then going to the other book if need […]
CSS Positioning
OK so I’ve never really had a grasp on how to position things in much more than inline types of ways using CSS. I would hack away at it, experimenting trying to get things positioned correctly, pulling out half of my hair in the process. I was half way through one of those […]