Mike Austin's Blog

Monday, January 30, 2006

Quote of the week...

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
~ Ferdinand Foch

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Fireplaces you can hang on a wall



Safretti fireplaces hang on a wall

Really good PsyTrance DJ

http://www.myspace.com/djdavidaragon

I don't know where to download or buy his music, but it's really good if you like Infected Mushroom/Astral Projection/GMS/Wizzy Noise etc.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Pronunciation of February

Feb·ru·ary - Although the variant pronunciation (fby-r) is often censured because it doesn't reflect the spelling of the word, it is quite common in educated speech and is generally considered acceptable. The loss of the first r in this pronunciation can be accounted for by the phonological process known as dissimilation, by which similar sounds in a word tend to become less similar. In the case of February, the loss of the first r is also owing to the influence of January, which has only one r.

Sunday, January 08, 2006

AJAX: a solution looking for an problem

Normally technology is developed to solve a problem. DHTML/AJAX seems to be a solution looking for a problem. And people are finding them: WYSIWYG Editor, Yahoo Maps, Google Maps, etc. Only problem is there are no interface standards, just a bunch of DOM APIs and HTML.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

XBOX 3D Graphics


I could look at this image with a magnifying glass and still not guess that it's from a video game. Wow.