http://incrementalism.net Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:09:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, as of three days ago, I'm officially in my fourth decade. It seems like it should feel more momentous than it actually does, but to be honest it actually feels pretty good. Even though it doesn't seem like that long ago that I was just turning twenty, looking back ... http://incrementalism.net/personal/thirty-vs-twenty Stewart Mader links to an interview of Professor Richard Florida at Newsweek about the increasing link between place and psychology. Florida points out that industries in large cities have become far more specialized: New York is great in fashion design and investment banking. San Francisco's great in software. L.A.'s great in entertainment ... http://incrementalism.net/culture/the-new-cultural-communities Fellow Atlassian Charles Miller recently wrote an amusing post about methods and constructors in Java that declare a checked exception, but can be called in a way that is required by the specification not to fail. A common example involves string encodings: try { s = new String(byteArray, ... http://incrementalism.net/tech/infallible-apis After working on it for over six months, I'm happy to finally announce my new techno/electro DJ mix, Escape. [audio:Escape.mp3] Escape (download) This is my first mix released since 2005's Year of Reflection, which was actually recorded in 2004 (hence the title). So I've been on a bit of a break from this ... http://incrementalism.net/music/escape Dave Winer has started a campaign to have bloggers post "a virtual equivalent of one of those signs people put on their front lawns" in support of Barack Obama. I won't go into a lot of detail right now on why I think Obama is the best choice for our next ... http://incrementalism.net/politics/california-voter-for-obama This year, even more than ever before it seems, everyone has a pet theory on what Steve Jobs will be announcing at tomorrow's Macworld Expo keynote session. Since I've got my own ideas and have been trying to get myself to write on this site more often, I'll throw in ... http://incrementalism.net/tech/macworld-2008-predictions Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has never been shy about encouraging others to remix his music. His 1992 EP, Broken was quickly followed by a collection of remixes called Fixed and his next two albums, The Downward Spiral and The Fragile), each had their own companion remix albums (Further ... http://incrementalism.net/music/nine-inch-nails-reconceives-remixing I've been meaning to start a weblog for... well, years. I've had various accounts on LiveJournal, Myspace, etc. but never took them very seriously, because "any day now I'm going to register my own domain and host my own site somewhere," but somehow I never got around to doing anything ... http://incrementalism.net/meta/just-start