The US Dollar’s fall from Grace
Year: 2007
CBC Radio 3 has a great recording of Two Hours Traffic live at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto
Inconsolata: Quality Free and Open Font for Programmers
If you spend a significant amount of time working with any type of scripting, code, or markup, then you’re probably looking at a monospace (fixed-width for each character) font.
The quality of these fonts varies, though the defaults that ship with Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista are quite good. The Consolas font included with Vista is particularly good.
Fortunately, there is a quality free/open alternative. Raph Levien has developed a great programming font cleverly called Inconsolata. I have been using it as my primary terminal/coding/text font for several months and find it superior to anything else I’ve used.
Incosonata is freely available under the Open Font License. The OpenType version of Inconsolata will work on all major platforms. There is also a PFA version available.
Font geeks can download the Inconsolata FontForge source file and a PDF sample is available.
Here’s a quick screenshot of Inconsolata used in a simple PHP file on my desktop.
Career Advice for Michael Vick
I think I’ve come up with the perfect solution for Michael Vick’s career. Vick should join the WWE under the name The Rottweiler.
The public outrage that would ensue would only fuel his infamy as a bad-ass wrestler.
Food for thought.
Solitaire: The End of Desktop Applications
The web-based version of Solitaire at WorldOfSolitaire.com is as smooth and playable as the version included in Windows or Gnome by default. This is the end of desktop software – Solitaire was the final frontier.
Note that it is not built with Flash, but Javascript, CSS, HTML, via YUI.
“Learn from the fall of Rome, US warned”, and by the comptroller general of the US, no less.
Acts of Volition Radio: Session 29
A new session of Acts of Volition Radio is full of delightful songs for the summer. The songs may also be enjoyed during other seasons.
Songs for summer. Recorded Sunday, April 5, 2007 by Steven Garrity. Run time: 45min.
Session Twenty Nine Playlist:
- Two Hours Traffic – Arms Akimbo
- Travis – Big Chair
- Jellyfish – Glutton of Sympathy
- Stars – Midnight Coward
- The New Pornographers – Failsave
- Zwan – Lyric
- Starflyer 59 – I Win
- Manic Street Preachers – Design for Life
- Joel Plaskett Emergency – The Instrumental
For more, see the previous Acts of Volition Radio sessions or subscribe to the Acts of Volition Radio RSS feed.
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Around the Restaurant
My friend Jakub was out for diner during GUADEC (a Gnome conference) and took a great video with his digital camera. They were apparently at a restaurant with a conveyor-belt that runs by the table and through the kitchen. He sent his camera on a little trip:
Clever.
“This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons”
Tonight I got home from a movie (Everything’s Gone Green – good movie) and headed to the iTunes Store to listen to some previews from the soundtrack. I was greeted by this message:
I suspect this is because I have used SharpMusique, an unauthorized Linux-based client for the iTunes Store (that lets you pay for music). That said, my account has been disabled from logging in from the official iTunes client as well (screenshot).
