Urine Humidity

It’s rather disturbing when you step into your small horse barn to feed the animals and realize that it’s humid, but that the _reason_ it’s humid is because all that urine is evaporating. The thought that then runs through your head is, “Ewwww,...

Halo 3 Webcomics

I’m pleased to announce the official launch of “Halo 3 Webcomics”:http://halo3webcomics.com, a collective for other Halo 3 comics writers to share their stories. It’s my opinion that one of the biggest barriers to publishing a webcomic is...

Creative Commons on Photographs

Anyone who knows me knows how much I love digital media. Most of my hobbies involve something to do with the Internet in one form or another, and just recently I reworked “my photoblog”:http://photos.shamuswrites.com with a new theme and fresh photos...

Apocalyptica

Recently, a friend of mine turned me on to a band called Apocalyptica (thanks, Oboe). Long-time readers of this blog know I’m a huge fan of classical music and not such a huge fan of most forms of popular music. Being a musician myself, I’m rather...

HowTo: Install Ghostscript on MediaTemple

I thought I’d go ahead and describe the process for installing Ghostscript on a MediaTemple (dv) server, especially since I’ve already got one reader who would like to see it. Use your favorite shell client to log on to your (mt) account as root. I use...

Fractional Canceling Error

I love “this post”:http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/2008/11/testing_123.php from Matt Spring on “Built on Facts”:http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/ the other day. In it he describes a mathematical manipulation on a test that “he...