For those of you who are new to this weblog, I’ve got a “Best Of” page which lists my favourite articles all the way back to 2001.
I know you’re probably working right now, but go ahead and read it! AFter all, isn’t it some someone else contributed to the gross domestic product for a change?
As sensational as the topic of cyberbullying is in light of the Kathy Sierra incident, I believe it’s still the exception rather than the rule. Here are the statistics on threats I have received:
Number of times I have received threats because of my accordion playing on the street: 6 since May 1, 1999, the day I first took the accordion out on the street.
Number of times I have received threats because of my blogging: 1 since November 10, 2001, the day of my first blog post. The threat (a vague one at that) is chronicled in the article At Last, My Blog Lands Me in Hot Water!.
Number of people who’ve taken joy in my misfortunes online: Only one that I’m aware of. She wrote in response to the article What happened to me and the new girl (or, “The girl who cried Webmaster”), one of my weirder moments. Go read the article if you’ve never done so before; I’ll write more about the online schadenfreude later.
As mentioned in this earlier article, Kathy Sierra (see here, here and here if the name doesn’t ring a bell) and Chris Locke appeared on CNN American Morning earlier today. Click here to see the video [9.1 MB QuickTime].
The painful bit is at the end, when anchor TJ Holmes poses asks “How can you threaten the cute kitty?”, a reference to a nickname that some of Kathy’s readers have given her.
Here another good development: Kathy and Chris have also published a joint statement — actually two independently-written statements appearing side by side — on Chris’ site.
I’m a little too busy to editorialize right now, but if you’ve got any opinions to share, please do so in the comments.
When the Ginger Ninja sees this photo, I know that she will cackle with glee:
Have I mentioned that I turn 40 later this year?
I was a DJ at the engineering pub at Crazy Go Nuts University in 1991. This meant that in the parallel universe where our lives are watched as if they were television shows (hopefully with the boring bits and nose-picking scenes edited out), Nirvana’s album Nevermind was an integral part of the soundtrack.
That was over fifteen years ago, and a lifetime away. A good number of us have young kids and have had to make the choice: put up with The Wiggles and the songs from the Thomas the Tank Engine series, or make like the “grups” from places like Brooklyn’s Park Slope, who have decided “that Sufjan Stevens is the perfect music to play for her 2-year-old, because, let’s face it, 2-year-olds have lousy taste in music, and we will not listen to the Wiggles in this house“?
(My own opinion is that if you’ve decided to have kids, you’re going to have to make all sorts of accommodations. which includes playings kids’ music some of the time.)
There have been a number of inventive approaches to this problem. Some alt-rock bands, such as They Might Be Giants, have written childrens’ albums with songs that also appeal to adults. Another solution is the Rockabye Baby series of albums, which provide lullabye renditions of the music by bands such as Radiohead, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Led Zeppelin, Metallica and Nirvana.
This week’s song of the week is for the parents of my generation with young kids:
As with all the other songs of the week on this blog, they’ll vanish after a week. Enjoy!
My friend Darryl took the photos I posted in the recent article, Bachelor Pads (which references the New York Times article It’s Not You, It‘s Your Apartment) and gave ’em the old Leonidas Photoshop treatment using the Leonidas heads I provided in this article. Here’s his handiwork:
Click the photo to see the original.
Click the photo to see the original.
Click the photo to see the original.
Click the photo to see the original.
Over at the Tucows Blog, I’m writing a series of follow-up articles that expands or explains some of the things covered in the article by our CEO Elliot Noss, Questions to Ask Before You Pick Your Domain Name Registrar.
The first article in the series, titled Domains Explained, Part 1: Registrants, Registries, Registrars and Resellers, explains some the confusingly similar terms registrant, registry and registrar as well as the often-misunderstood term reseller. It starts with the handy diagram below and then explains each term in detail.
