Covers of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights

I was first introduced to Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights by Miss Scott, one of my high school English teachers1, while we were studying the book by Emily Brontë. I paid the song almost no attention at the time, but the book I recall disliking. I think my dislike was a function of the incredible inaccessibility of the prose. Despite that, Miss Scott's enthusiastic teaching of the book sunk in and I'm very happy to be able to say I've read it (and tried unsuccessfully to read it again since). After hearing a cover of Kate Bush's original on the radio ... more

Comment Ident: A plugin for Habari

A while ago now, Jeremy Keith released Huffduffer a new social bookmarking site specifically for audio files, which turns your 'huffduffed' links into a convenient personalised podcast for you to subscribe to. I signed up to Huffduffer immediately after hearing about it - not because I wanted to use it (I still haven't huffduffed anything), but because I knew Jeremy would be using his extensive interest in and knowledge about microformats, machine tags and other beautiful web things while building Huffduffer, and I wanted to be inspired. Huffduffer is the first site I saw actually using XFN and Google's Social ... more

Redesign: Habari and HTML5

What seems like a long time ago now, I discovered an open source project called Habari. Here was this relatively small group of people, a few of whom I was already paying attention to1, building a new blogging platform. For whatever reason, it caught my attention, and I'm very glad it did. I spent hour upon hour avoiding work and learning about Habari. The more I dug into the source the more it opened my eyes to what elegant PHP looked like. The MVC pattern and some of the class patterns used in the Habari codebase are beautiful things. More ... more

Adding Gmail like shortcuts to Mail.app

I've been looking for this for a long time and I just got it all sorted out, so I thought I'd note it down here for all comers. It helps with my endless quest to achieve Inbox Zero. Specifically I wanted to replicate the y hotkey functionality (yank) provided in Gmail so I don't have to go to the mouse to archive messages from my inbox. There are tools around that can help out with this, and the pick of the bunch seems to be Mail Act-On, but for what I want (one simple function) US$24.95 seems a little steep ... more

Pitigliano Top 10

I've always felt as if I'm missing out on something when it comes to music. I feel like I was late to the game, and I'm still catching up. I'm certain I didn't really know anything at all about music until I was in high school and even though there are songs from before then that will bring back memories - good and bad - I couldn't name them. Even well into high school I don't think my interest in being a music fan had reached tipping point and my music taste certainly hadn't matured to a point where I ... more