http://www.danvk.org/wp Keepin' static like wool fabric since 2006 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:16:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A year after making my last move, I'm doing it again! This is less of a dramatic shift. Whereas the last one was a 35-mile move from Mountain View to San Francisco, this is a 2 mile move between neighborhoods in the city ([[Russian Hill]] to [[Lower Haight]]). I'll post pictures ... http://www.danvk.org/wp/2008-08-20/another-move/ Richard over at Sparkletack recently wrote about the Charles Cushman Photograph Collection, which includes hundreds of pictures of San Francisco from the 1930's to the 1960's. The images offer a fascinating tour of San Francisco history, from Chinatown in 1952 to hippies on Haight street in 1967: The real coup, though, is to ... http://www.danvk.org/wp/2008-08-18/faded-photos-of-san-francisco/ I recently stumbled across the International Documentary Association's list of the top 25 documentaries of all-time. Here they are (I've bolded the ones I've seen): 1. Hoop Dreams (1994), Steve James 2. The Thin Blue Line (1988), Errol Morris 3. Bowling for Columbine (2002), Michael Moore 4. Spellbound (2002), Jeffrey Blitz 5. Harlan County U.S.A. ... http://www.danvk.org/wp/2008-08-03/top-25-documentaries-of-all-time/ I've become a big fan of The Onion's crossword puzzle recently. Here's a few reasons to love it: It's free. Unlike some other papers. It's convenient: there's an Onion distribution box within 100 feet of my apartment. It's online (w/ answers!). Here's a link to the June 17 puzzle. Now some spoilers... don't read ... http://www.danvk.org/wp/2008-06-21/onion-crossword-puzzle/ Inspired by the sorttable library, I've done some Javascript hacking over the last day and created dragtable, a complementary library which lets you drag column headers around to rearrange HTML tables. A demo will make everything clear: NameDateFavorite Color Dan1984-07-12Blue Alice1980-07-22Green Ryan1990-09-23Orange Bob1966-04-21Red Drag the column ... http://www.danvk.org/wp/2008-06-12/draggable-table-columns/ Last we spoke, I swore to not pay attention to the news for a few months. How quickly the world changes when you're not paying attention! I walked by a TV this afternoon and heard a general saying this: We want to capture R. Kelly, the world's most notorious terrorist. I know ... http://www.danvk.org/wp/2008-05-27/when-you-miss-out-on-the-news/ I came to a realization last weekend while watching [[Mike Huckabee]], [[Harold Ford, Jr.]] and various pundits discuss VP candidates on Meet the Press. We're going to be hearing this exact argument for the next three months. I'll care then. After the Oregon and Kentucky primaries tonight, I'm going to ... http://www.danvk.org/wp/2008-05-20/some-delegate-math/ First off, apologies for the Craig- and Ryan-like pace of updates to danvk.org. On Sunday, Ryan and I rode out to the far Western edge of San Francisco, just north of [[Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California|Ocean Beach]]. While it's only six miles from my apartment, this felt like a much longer ... http://www.danvk.org/wp/2008-05-06/cliff-house-and-the-sutro-baths/ FRONTLINE on PBS, the documentary series that takes on the tough, complicated issues and finds them... tough and complicated. It's rare for me to watch a documentary and conclude that it undereditorialized, but that's exactly the reaction I've had to the first few episodes of this season. First we had The Medicated ... http://www.danvk.org/wp/2008-02-27/pbs-frontline/ I found a disk image I'd made of an old hard drive of mine today (circa 1995) and had some fun browsing through my files. Back then, I was programming in a combination of [[QBASIC]] and [[GW-BASIC]]. It's easy to read old QBASIC programs, since QB saved code as human-readable ... http://www.danvk.org/wp/2008-02-03/reading-old-gw-basic-programs/