Ok, I'm not pretending that when I had an office job that I couldn't drop everything and watch a helicopter land... but here I did it without shaving, combing my hair, and I got to stay as long as I liked!

I just learned from the author of this paper with whom I worked at the start of his study that they included my name in the acknowledgments right on the first page:
How Task-Facilitative Interactive Tools Foster Buyers’ Trust in Online Retailers: A Process View of Trust Development in the Electronic Marketplace
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jretai.2009.02.001
How very exciting!

This straight from MSDN:

Will MSXML support XSLT 2.0?

No. MSXML versions 4.0 and later fully implement and support XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 (W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999). If your XML application requires a later version of XSLT, Microsoft strongly recommends moving to the newer System.Xml framework classes, because all future XML development efforts will be focused there.

MSXML here refers to all versions of MSXML in IE as the latest version when invoked with something like:

I have no idea what etude this is, but it's a fun, hoppety scale for octaves, intervals, and smooth shifting between them all. It could be Dont, but don't hold me to it ;)

It's really copyrighted, I'm sure, but please if someone can identify it (see attached PDF), having it here will certainly help to that end.

Oh, and while I'm at it, check out this Encyclopedia of the Violin.

Senele gave me a HUGE canvas for my birthday. Having him help me gesso it wasn't a really great idea, but we both enjoyed painting on it together!

Video:

I was blown away by the simplicity of ScanLife.com. Create a free, personal account, download the software, and you can make your own clicky little barcodes, too!

I guess the social networking enthusiast might plaster his neighborhood with wall-sized printouts of these and some secret message.. I wonder what you could come up with?

Quick post about a recent painting.. This is the "Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir done in a few of the styles of Marc Chagall.  In my in-progress photos below, you can see my studies: first a pencil sketch of the Renoir, next a pencil sketch of the Chagall characters of it, finally a pencil sketch outline on the canvas itself..

Can you recognize all the Renoir characters?  What about the Chagall ones from "Birthday?" Click the large thumb to get to the annotated Flickr page.

Ok, this is an unfair cross-post, but it's my cross-post, so comment where you will.. Either way, you'll have to wade through the copious collection of spam comments before I see it and approve...  What's this about captcha?

Here's what I posted on lullabot after listening to a great podcast:

Because all good projects need a name, I would start there: DDB ("Drupal DDB Builder").

Ok folks.. This didn't go down as planned, but you can sort of join Milo in a technological journey of live streaming during his baptism (in fact, the priest didn't confiscate my cell phone!). Flash player required (but you probably have it).

Above, there should be a video player, and you should see either Milo's baptism in action or a splash title screen. If you see something completely random, then the streaming/playing service has a hiccup (but you can easily visit the archives in the provided thumbnails at the end of the clip-- hopefully they're my shows and not another user's again!! :))