Monthly Archives: August 2008

YUI -> jQuery

I just switched my (rather limited) JavaScript from YUI to jQuery.
jQuery took a little (a couple hours) to learn how to write something close to idiomatic code. My new code is much much smaller and easier to read.

Byrne Eno

David Byrne and Brian Eno have released a new album and I’m on my second listen.

Xen Networking

Gerf.Org just switched to Xen. It’s running in a domU on hardware that is massively more powerful than it used to be.  The original hardware (until about 3 years ago) was a 333Mhz box with 20gigs of disk-space. Since then it has been running on newer hardware. However, the hardware was flakey and getting [...]

An anthropological introduction to YouTube

An excellent presentation on what You Tube is and how it has impacted our culture. It is a presentation given at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008 by Michael Walsch, an assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.
I recommend watching it in it’s entirety.

YouTube - An anthropological introduction to YouTube.
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unappealing taxs, part 2

I just got the “Disposition of appeal from real estate assessment”.  This is also known as the ruling.  In short, it says that the “evidence insufficient to change value”; no change.  Yay!
The only recourse the city has now is to appeal to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County within thirty days.  I hope [...]