aaron evans

I’ve added ads to the site. I’ll be curious to see what ads are shown and if they turn into revenue. I’m expecting the selection of ads to be good and for them to generate little to no revenue.

Two weeks ago, the New York Times published an article written by Motoko Rich (Select membership required to legally view the article. To read the article without a subscription, perform a search for the title of the article). In the article, Rich discusses how in his latest album Modern Times Bob Dylan has [...]

I was waiting in the airport and decided to buy a Sudoku book. I knew the game and thought it would be a nice way to pass some time. I bought the book with The Times logo on it. We only had a pen with us and I knew that people typically used pencils [...]

I (finally) started using del.icio.us and rearranged links on the sidebar on this page. Here’s my del.icio.us. I promise it will improve over time.

Sharing photos online has gotten a lot easier in the past few years due to the appearance of many photo sharing sites. My camera has grown old (Digital Elph s200) and I stopped putting photos online about two years ago. I used to use Apple’s .Mac which worked pretty nicely with iPhoto. [...]

Forbes has compiled a list of the most expensive places to rent in the US. Here are the top 15: RankLocation$/sq foot Class A$/sq foot Class B 1New York, NY27.84 18.31 2San Francisco, CA27.1719.91 3Los Angeles, CA25.1218.39 4Boston, MA25.0817.49 5Honolulu, HI24.9117.69 6Northern NJ23.3515.80 7Stamford-South CI23.2214.30 8Nassau-Suffolk, NY22.4016.66 9Orange County, CA21.7117.94 10San Jose, CA21.4717.51 11San Diego, CA20.3714.96 12Oakland-East Bay, CA19.0116.99 13Washington, DC18.8515.15 14Central NJ17.2414.01 15Philadelphia, PA16.0911.70 I’m not sure what how Class [...]

I’ve attempted to ‘fix’ the sidebar on the right of the page. The sidebar used to be defined in a div with height 100%. The problem with this was that when you scrolled down, the sidebar stopped when the content ended or where the initial height of the page ended (whichever was larger). [...]

There were some great songs in the 80s by artists who are typically associated with previous decades. Exhibit 1: Roy Orbison: [Anything You Want] You Got ItThis video is actually pleasant to watch and the song is great. Roy had an amazing voice that didn’t seem to age. Exhibit 2: George Harrison: I Got My Mind [...]

I just bought TextMate. It cost me about $50. I’ve realized that I’ve been buying software at a pretty high rate since I started making money. When I look back, some of my purchases were quite regrettable. Here are my thoughts: SubEthaEdit: nice text editor, wouldn’t have bought it if I had [...]

What a great book! I had read some of the GOF Design Patterns book but feel like I understood only some of the patters well enough to use them. Sure, everybody can create a singleton class, but when should you use a decorator and what’s do you give up in the process? From [...]