Archive for January, 2009

Trials for Parents Who Chose Faith Over Medicine – NYTimes.com

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

I remember reading about this tragic situation when it happened.

Now it appears the parents are going to trial. Good.
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Reverse Grafitti

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

The Reverse Graffiti Project

An awesome concept; making graffiti by removing dirt.

(That, and I just wanted to try out posting a video to my blog from Youtube)

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Running out of screen space, iPhone style

Monday, January 19th, 2009

I’m trying to learn the quirks of developing web apps targeted at the iPhone, so I’m mucking around trying to learn how best to use the space available. Everything is going fine using the iPhone simulator (which is part of the SDK), but when i pull out my real iPhone, it looks like I’ve only got about 75% of the space!
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Migrated to Wordpress

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

After running for several years with MT, I have changed to using Wordpress. The main reason was that it’s one of the precondigured apps offered by my hosting provider, and I was sick to doing MT upgrades.

Everything seems to have come over okay but I apologize in advance for any quirky behaviour.
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Why atheism is not a religion

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

I was trawling through the comments to the lovely Laci’s recent Youtube posting on atheism not being a religion, and some of the counterpoints being raised where, um, dumb. Youtube’s limit of 500 character comment responses probably contributes to that a bit. Anyway, this kicked off a thought train in my head about my own rationale for atheism not being a religion.

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