Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Noteworthy category.
Blog Less, Live More
Filed in General, Nostalgia, Noteworthy on December 30, 2007 at 5:22 pmI would like to think of this post as a New Year’s Resolution, a very important resolution which will eventually contradict itself. In 2008, I’ll be focusing less on my blog and decreasing my overall online activities in order to effectively “live more.” How will this contradict itself? Well, by living more, [...]
Frost 1.0
Filed in Frost, Noteworthy, WordPress on December 14, 2007 at 12:18 amJoen released Fauna 1.0 on Tuesday. This is the final release of Fauna (excluding bug fixes, of course) and is packed with several noteworthy improvements, including compatibility with WordPress 2.3 (including the new tagging system), a new print stylesheet, and support for the new gravatar plugin, Easy Gravatars.
Due to a few small changes made since [...]
Goodbye Text Link Ads!
Filed in General, Noteworthy, Technology on November 26, 2007 at 10:56 pmI am proud to report that MacManX.com is now free of AdSense and Text Link Ads. The decisions to remove AdSense was very easy, as the multiple banners that were displayed throughout this blog were vastly outperformed by the single text link advertisement in my sidebar, though the unexplained termination of some of my [...]
Save the Environment for Free
Filed in Noteworthy, Science, World on October 15, 2007 at 12:07 amYou’ve probably heard it all before, “For just pennies a day . . . For a one-time donation of . . . With your annual membership . . .” Well, I’m going to say something a little bit different today.
For just minutes a day, you can improve the quality of the environment for yourself [...]
Music Program Notes Has Moved
Filed in Music, Noteworthy on September 24, 2007 at 12:01 amI am proud to announce that Music Program Notes has been accepted by Wikia, which brings our cost of operations down to zero and exposes our database to Wikia’s large user community! Because of this, I have decided to re-title the database as simply Program Notes, to accommodate program notes for both music and [...]
Frost: Release Candidate 2
Filed in Frost, Noteworthy, WordPress on June 15, 2007 at 8:35 amYesterday, Joen and the rest of the talented contributers behind Fauna released a second release candidate. This near-final release of Fauna is packed with several noteworthy improvements, including compatibility with WordPress 2.1 and 2.2, an all-new simplified options page, and Fauna-specific widgets. Due to some of the changes made since Fauna’s first release [...]
Presenting: Music Program Notes!
Filed in Music, Noteworthy on April 21, 2007 at 7:37 pmI am proud to present Music Program Notes, an exciting new resource for ensemble directors, music educators, students, and anyone else with a general interest in music history!
Program notes are short paragraphs or essays providing details about a composition and its composer, and can usually be found in a program accompanying the performance of the [...]
Frost: Release Candidate
Filed in Frost, Noteworthy, WordPress on November 16, 2006 at 11:49 pmThe talented team behind Fauna recently released a near-final Fauna release candidate, packed with several bug fixes, code optimizations, overall improvements, and new features. Due to the massive amount of welcomed changes, Frost required a small update to retain its compatibility with Fauna. After a very easy-going update process, and a few bug/typo [...]
