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Starflight

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The best and most thought-provoking game of the DOS era was Starflight. Kids today, with their intuitive graphical user interfaces. They have no idea what a pain it was to use computers back in the eighties. DOS especially was an autistic nightmare. Bill Gates is some kind of genius to have convinced so many people [...]

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You need a blog, not just a web site

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Whenever somebody comes to me and wants a web site, I suggest that I set them up with a blog instead. Even better, I suggest they start using a variety of blogs and blog-like platforms. If you have a web presence of any kind for any reason, you need to be able to update it [...]

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Hip-hop and electronica literature review

Saturday, September 26, 2009

So as part of the competitive analysis for my developing book proposal, I’ve been looking at books about electronic music and hip-hop. I’m interested in books about the music itself, its production and content, as well as the lives of people making it and listening to it. Among the books I’ve read, the two real [...]

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I use WordPress because the editor of Gawker told me to

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

I’m a jazz guy. I like improvising in front of an audience. I like publishing a post while it’s still only a third finished. It keeps the fire lit under me to get the rest written. I was looking for a blog platform congenial to this method of working. Then I read a PC Magazine [...]

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Visual outlining with Flickr

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

I love everything about Flickr except its name. First of all, creative misspelling is so five minutes ago. Second of all, the word ‘flicker’ has no conceptual connection to a photo-sharing social network that I can think of, except, I guess, in the very literal sense that a computer image flickers thirty times a second [...]

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How to write something long and complicated

Thursday, November 13, 2008

I find myself in the new and delightful position of writing for money. So I needed to step up my game in terms of workflow and file management. The last time I tried to write something long, I was in college, using Windows 3.1 and good old Wordperfect 6. Then the Microsoft hegemony set in [...]

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A better word processor than Microsoft Word came free with your computer

Thursday, November 6, 2008

If you use a Mac, that program is called TextEdit. You can find it in your Applications folder, under Utilities. If you use Windows, the program is called Wordpad, made, ironically, by Microsoft. If you poke around your Start menu among the various programs, it’s in there somewhere, depending which version of Windows you have. [...]

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