YouTube is almost as bad as Wikipedia as far as the "oooh, clicky!" factor goes ( Read more... )

Hey, something good to come from DCist other than presale passwords. ;) (I kid -- I read DCist regularly, even though I already get the passwords by virtue of being on the 9:30 Club's mailing list. ;))

They recently posted a review of an EP by a local group called The Vita Ruins; after reading this, I was inspired to go brave MySpace (*shudder*) ( Read more... )

Time for a new engine in my car, to the tune of more than the car is actually worth at this point. My decision now is: 1) drop the money to replace the engine and fix the leaking exhaust manifold into this car and keep driving it; 2) buy a beater for about an equivalent amount of money; or 3) suck it up and just go hunting for a new car and hope ( Read more... )

I need to come up with a list of potential training opportunities before Friday so we can start working out which ones are reasonable and which aren't. Things I'm interested in: databases, particularly mySQL and/or PostgreSQL, XML, and AJAX. Possibly very basic Java. Here's stuff I've found so far that might work:

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