ethan non sequitur — thoughts, musings, and the not-so-random

Lyon Festival of Lights – Fête des Lumières Lyon 2007

December 10, 2007

Montpellier Stade Yves du Manoir

September 28, 2007

This past Monday, the world lost la voix d’un ange, the voice of an angel. At two weeks shy of his 24th birthday, Grégory lost his lifelong battle with Cystic Fibrosis while awaiting an organ transplant. He was a kind, gentle and generous soul and we were blessed to share in even just [...]

Fetchez la vache ! Quoi? Get the cow!

March 20, 2007

Stressed? Tense? Need a little unwind-time? Maybe you just need to throw some cows at something…..
(the preceding message has been brought to you by Monty Python’s The Holy Grail, Spamalot and The Knights Who Until Recently Said Ni)

WordPress, DreamHost, UTF-8 encoding and international characters

March 10, 2007

If you work on any WordPress blogs/sites that are written in any language that has accented characters and happen to be on DreamHost, you have probably noticed character encoding problems. For instance, the new auto-save feature in WordPress or the Ajax categories add field in the category list, can display improperly encoded characters.
If you [...]

The Machine is Us

March 4, 2007

My inner geek thinks this is seriously brilliant.

We’ll need to rethink a few things…
We’ll need to rethink copyright
We’ll need to rethink authorship
We’ll need to rethink identity
We’ll need to rethink ethics
We’ll need to rethink aesthetics
We’ll need to rethink rhetorics
We’ll need to rethink governance
We’ll need to rethink privacy
We’ll need to rethink commerce
We’ll need to rethink love
We’ll need [...]

MySpace Blog Advanced Editor Error in Firefox/Mac

February 28, 2007

If you happen to work on MySpace blogs either personally (my seriously needing some attention personal page) or professionally (myspace marketing for clients), you have probably found some serious user issues with the blog editor (not that I would mean to imply that there is anything haphazard, unplanned or completely ineffective about the development of [...]

Barack Obama AIM Buddy Icon

February 10, 2007

I chopped up the Obama’08 graphic into a new buddy icon for my meebo. A couple of people said they wanted it, so here you go…
btw, if you don’t use meebo yet, you should check it out. It lets you use all of your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, [...]

Becoming a Non-Toxic Person

February 1, 2007

As someone who wants to continue to progress in self-actualization and the potential of who (and what) I was created to be, I found the following article to be very insightful, especially as I have found myself surrounded by some incredibly noxious individuals over the past several years. While I continue to recover [...]

NCO Financial Systems

July 3, 2006

Be sure to go and leave a comment at NCO Financial Systems at CallFerret Phone Number Lookup so that all of the new NCO phone numbers are available to people as soon as possible.
In case you are getting calls from the wonderful people at NCO Financial Systems. You should read some messages people have [...]

Do you own songs bought online? Well, sort of

May 15, 2006

In a recent article on Reuters, the author points out the limitations companies like Apple place on your online music downloads. Issues like limitation to Apple iPods, multiple computer use rights and CD burning.
Before people erroneously get the impression this issue is limited to Apple, there are a few points to consider:
You don’t own [...]

Did You Pay Your Internet Protection Payola?

April 21, 2006

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet.
Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet’s First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing [...]

Christians Sue over Tolerance

April 10, 2006

A senior at [tag]Georgia Tech[/tag] is suing the University for the right to be intolerant. I’m always amazed at how much effort certain [tag]Christians[/tag] can expend condemning others and defining new ways to form divisions between people. The excuse most often cited is ‘Holiness’ and the Greater Morality™. My concern is that I [...]

Gratitude In My Pocket

March 14, 2006

In my pants, my wallet, my bookbag, even my Moleskine, there are little pieces of paper. Written on them is one word, gratitude. To some it may seem simplistic, but I have never been as happy as since I started reminding myself how much that I can be thankful for. Sure, I could [...]

One Campaign Email: Santorum-Durbin Amendment

March 13, 2006

Last Thursday, the Senate Budget Committee cut back funds to the President’s plan to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty-but we still have a chance to make a difference!
Right now, two U.S. Senators are reaching across political divides and asking the Senate to add $566 million to fund critical AIDS, TB and malaria programs running [...]

First Google China, now Google Mars

March 13, 2006

Google Mars is up with some amazing pictures of the Martian landscape from NASA. The pictures are available in three ways: an ‘elevation’ topographic model, a visual satellite image, or an infrared satellite image. It is the same interface as Google Maps and includes indexed maps of the highlights, like mountains, canyons, and craters.
If [...]

Basecamp saved my life. really.

March 11, 2006

In case you haven’t seen it, Basecamp is a website for project management, but more to the point, it is quite possibly the best collaborative organizational tool ever. Create a project, add the people involved and then share to-do lists, milestones/goals, post messages with files and write on virtual whiteboards, all while assigning everything [...]

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