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I love the way Amazon.com attempts to recommend things for me to buy based on other things I’ve bought or looked at or things that other people have bought. I love it not because it’s useful but because it occasionally produces comical results. For example, here’s one of today’s helpful suggestions, generated after I looked [...]

There’s an essay here that discusses (at some length) a point I’ve started ranting about to anyone who will listen to me: Apple seems to have adopted an active strategy of gradually excluding third-party developers. It’s a strategy that I can understand in some sense, but I believe it’s not a good one for Apple. [...]

Yes, another goofy title; but yes, another new Audio Damage product. This one’s called Fluid. It’s a chorus plug-in for creating those larger-than-life stereo effects. Chorus plug-ins are usually rather anemic and dull-sounding, but this one is something special (if I may say so myself). Read about it, see a screen shot, hear audio demos [...]

It was nearly a year ago that I posted an entry here about the enigmatic animation of someone singing and twirling a leek. Through the odd evolutionary forces of the web, we now have a new version from Japan, sung by voice-synthesis software:

Thanks go to MusicThing for this; the original post with some amount of [...]

My photo gallery is back online. I took it down awhile ago because it got hacked and finally got around to patching it up today. It’s still a little rough around the edges but it should all work. I have disabled the comment mechanism altogether because I don’t trust it. (The authors of Gallery go [...]

Lest I give the erroneous impression that Apple is the sole source of my computer woes, I spent all day (fairly literally) yesterday troubleshooting my main PC after what should have been a simple hardware upgrade went awry. I purchased a new graphics card and a new sound card. The graphics card went in without [...]

I’m faintly non-plussed by the flap over the price cut of the iPhone. If you consider the price reduction of $200 in the face of the $3000 required to operate the phone for two years, it’s a less than 10% drop. If you were dumb enough to lay down $600 for a cell phone in [...]