I re-read John Dvorak's iBook commentary
this morning. Perhaps he was just trying to be funny, but it reminds me of the day, in eighth grade, when I was dragged in to the vice-principal's office because I had been wearing make-up to school. Quite a lot of it, actually : bad Dali-like things, done in liner, falling from my eyes. The vice-principal and I had a grudging respect for one another, but by the end of our meeting he had lost most of mine. The school had students spanning grades K - 11 and the vice-principal was concerned for the younger kids because they "saw the world in black and white." Boys wore pants and no makeup, while girls wore dresses and makeup. I was "confusing them".
John Maeda on digital art
"Without being able to know how to program, you can't break out of the technology -- just like if you don't know how to use brush and ink, you're limited. ...for people who are seeking the next step, the prepackaged becomes an impossible barrier to break free from." see also :
Design by Numbers.
Hemp News
a hemplog. Meanwhile, the Globe & Mail asks :
Do you know what's in your hempburger?O'Reilly's MySQL & mSQL
<a href = "http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msql/chapter/ch10-beta.html">beta sample chapter</a>
Web Reference : PHPhoo
How to build a Yahoo-style site using PHP and MySQL. "As Spider Man always said, with Great Power comes Great Responsibility. Put the coffee cup down, remove the cat from your lap, and concentrate. One false step here and it'll be the last time your database administrator lets you anywhere near the server, so pay attention."