March 29, 2006
March 27, 2006
What’s wrong with my HTML Toolbar?
Why does it look like this? Where have the rest of the functions gone?
March 26, 2006
Why Men Should Learn to Follow
There's a double standard at work in the gender-to-dance-role function in salsa.
March 17, 2006
Web 0.2
There’s been lots of talk over the last few months about “Web 2.0″, which features lots of new buzzwords and a desperate desire for the web boom to happen again. While finding background material for a post I’ll eventually write, I found what appears to be a genuine ten-year-old web page.
March 14, 2006
The Basics
I recently read an article describing the importance of the basics in many fields. The first thing I read about it was Tom Kyte’s raving about the idea and its relation to databases. It strikes a chord, though, when I think about dancing.
March 13, 2006
Block, pt II
What is obvious to me now is that it would be much better to just write some of the posts I’m stuck on, face the fact that they’ll be a bit rubbish, and work up from there. Writing nothing improves nothing.
The Best Salsa Band in the World
Since you were wondering, my vote for best salsa band in the world goes to Manny Oquendo y Libre.
March 8, 2006
Tube Busker All Out of Key
Some time ago I wrote of my surprise at hearing a tube busker play something different. Tonight, in the same place, I heard a busker playing “Guantanamera“, a song you’d likely recognise even without much exposure to Cuban music.
March 3, 2006
Block
One of the reasons I started a blog was to learn, or re-learn, to write. I studied what the English-educated would call “essay subjects” throughout school and university, but am now doing a job that rarely calls for serious prose writing.
