You probably know her from her cover of “Born This Way”, Lady Gaga took notice too and invited her on stage for a song!
YouTube: LADY GAGA – Born This Way (Cover) :
YouTube: BORN THIS WAY – Lady Gaga performs with Maria Aragon live in Toronto (March 3rd):
Philadelphia Inquirer: “Statistics say crime is up in Camden since police layoffs”
Philadelphia Daily News: “‘Reason for concern’ in Camden crime rise”
When you cut shared infrastructure such as Police, Fire, and Education, bad things follow.
It is a fascinating question that led to some awesome lunchtime conversation the other day at work. Some more food for thought was recently written by Freeman Dyson in The New York Review of Books, who was reviewing James Gleick’s newest, “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood”, which I’m gonna just have to read. Metafilter, as usual, had an interesting discussion to follow.
Other related links:
Nicholas Carr at The Daily Beast
Wired: Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data
Philadelphia Inquirer: Tirdad Derakhshani: Information Please
Martin Fowler: DomainSpecificLanguage
Martin Fowler: FluentInterfaces
InfoQ: Martin Fowler: Introduction to Domain Specific Languages
The Structure of Structures: Are DSLs simply XML Hell?
Ward Cunningham Wiki: Domain Specific Language
defmacro.org: The Nature of Lisp
Wikipedia: Domain-specific languages
That’s what a recent Register piece from Cade Metz calls Node.js. A good read. BTW, a great tutorial I ran thru recently is over at Nettuts+.
Mike Devine has just reached his ten year blogging anniversary.
Congrats Mike!
Two from Roz Duffy that should be passed along; “here and now”, and “my community story”.
Show up. Be present. Probably my greatest personal struggles.
But I’m finding that breathing helps. So does getting back to somethings I had set aside for too long, like my guitar, which provides a kind of mindfulness training in and of itself. So does coding when in a flow. Or most clearly, watching my daughter dance and sing or hearing Richelle’s voice on the phone. I probably will never as attentive to the world I’m in as when I’m in the moment like that. And sometimes, far too often for my taste, I allow anxieties about the future or frets about the past to distract from even those times. But I know that is a challenge we all face, and in that challenge is everything.
Recent happenings with Six Apart and the momentum behind WordPress convinced me to migrate paradox1x.org.
I used to migrate this blog every few months to a new platform during blogging’s early period; Userland Frontier, EditThisPage, Userland Radio, Nuke, PostNuke, GreyMatter, and eventually MovableType. I’ve had plenty of experience with Drupal, Blogger, and WordPress on other projects over the years and I’ve gone the build-it-your-self route a few times too.
I had considered some other great options for paradox1x.org; Melody, Jekyll, Hyde, PyBlosxom and going hosted with WordPress.com, or Tumblr.
In the end, this blog is primarily an outlet for my writing. And WordPress, like MovableType, just works, not exciting technologically I know, but that’s what is important for this space here.
3164 posts and 3592 comments, 21 pages later, here we are. Thank you Movable Type and Six Apart for a long run. Movable Type was never as bad a some made it, nor was it the bees knees. It got the job done and the community that was a round it was instrumental in blogging’s history. Thank you. Now on with WordPress.
Let me know about any flakiness. I am trying to determine the optimal comment toolset (Disqus is an option) so there will be some issues, I’m sure, to work out.