Just saw ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’. Super. It made me want to smoke dirty cigarettes though. Best scene: the one with RZA and GZA of course.
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Arts, music, ironing
Uh uh uh uh many updates coming soon on books and movies and music and maybe even comedy…. Went to a fun comedy night on Saturday in Balham somewhere – it was grand. I’ve read so many books lately, I’ve even joined the library… and I have started ironing my shirts.
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I don’t know much about art….
Russian Landscapes in the Age of Tolstoy at the National Gallery – some of these landscapes blew my mind, they were breathtaking.
Hopper at Tate Modern – some striking work here too, among my favs were ‘Office at Night’ and ‘Excursion into Philosophy’:
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Creating a search plugin for your own site with Firefox
I have created a search plugin for the Firefox search box that will allow bucketFountain fans who use Firefox/Mozilla/etc to search bucketFountain directly from the browser. I’ve uploaded the necessary files and will let you know when it’s available. And it was soooo easy to do.
I’ve started work on one for the Notes 6 forum too, and will create others for MySQL, PHP, and other reference sites that I use regularly. Check here for details on how to do it.
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Site ideas
I found a great tutorial on how to make Mac style aqua buttons in Fireworks MX. Not that I’m going to make bucketFountain look like a Mac, but I’m thinking that the glassy look might come in handy… -
Dan Brown. Hmmm.
What can I say about the author Dan Brown? His books (I’ve read The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons) are both exciting if perhaps slightly predictable – but they are written like shite. I know how hard it is to write decent prose, I have a 20,000 word novel draft gathering dust on my hard drive. I can’t even bring myself to look at it. But this guy is a professional right? There’s a noticeable difference between The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons – Mr Brown may have been attending a writing course. Ms Natasha recognised the similarity between Da Vinci code and The Genesis Code. Does that mean if I can pay ‘homage’ to a story by referencing it in the title I can change some of the names around and use it for my own novel?
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Mr Spolsky is a cool dude
I’ve just about finished reading my debut amazon purchase, ‘Joel on Software’ . It has changed some of my work habits (which were pretty bad to start with) and made me think about development in a new way. It is also easy to read and f-ing funny. We’re about to interview for a temp at work, so I found this article of interest. Joel elaborates a little more in the book and offers this gem:
The worst kind of interviewer is the blowhard. That’s the kind who blabs the whole time and barely leaves the candidate time to say, “yes, that’s so true, I couldn’t agree with you more.”
Hmmm, seems familiar to me for some reason.
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Home wrecker of the week
“If we legitimize same-sex unions, we will make ourselves even more of a target for terrorists.”
Say wha…? Found at I Do, which I found via Civic Space, which is what the Spread Firefox site runs on.
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Firefox becomes a superfast millonaire
Wow – Firefox has been downloaded more that a million times in 100 hours. I am really happy about that, as to be honest I thought that a million downloads in 10 days would be pushing it. Big ups to the sfx team – perhaps I should help?