W3Matter is taking a new approach to interviewing programmers: “write some code for us.”
They’re looking for PHP programmers, but they want to make sure their new code monkey has the goods. The first challenge involves some HTTP work, tag stripping, text extraction & parsing, filesystem I/O, and flat DBM storage. The second requests the prospective [...]

This morning I whipped out the iRiver on the way to work and created a short podcast. I’m uploading it to my system here at work to upload it to the server so it’s uncut and unedited. Here are the podcast notes:

Yet another free training session at the gym.
Banter about my arm workouts.
Fishing for compliments [...]

It’s been one week since I abandoned my workout regimen in favor of giving my body time to recuperate from whatever creeping crud I’d picked up. In that short time period I have reverted to all of my bad habits. It’s unsettling to me how fast that can happen.
It started with not going to the [...]

If someone asks you what kind of music you like, what do you tell them? We’re limited to using industry sub-genres: smooth jazz, vocal trance, etc. Wouldn’t it be nice to narrow it down a bit? Now you can.
Enter Pandora:
bq. Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. [...]