Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I’m a collector. I’m not a hoarder because I display my collections. One of the things I’ve steadily collected over the last 15 or 20 years is quotations. Not “quotes”, quotes is a verb… These quotations were spread over journals, webpages, .sig files, and blog postings. As I had a lot of time on my [...]

I just finished watching the documentary “Hitler’s Children” on the Knowledge Network.  It isn’t a great film, but it did get me thinking. Adolf Hitler of course had no children, but other members of the inner circle had children and now grand children. A Jewish filmmaker interviewed several of them and asked them about how [...]

It was someone else’s idea to cast her as Chun Li, but Morgana Mou (牟丛) is an aspiring model, actress, and martial artist. She has a demo real online which hopefully I can embed from Youku.com. Given how popular my blog is for some keywords I decided to share her clip. Chun Li despite being [...]

As my latest period of unemployment continues to lengthen I’ve worked on an ever larger collection of PHP code that I’ve written and used to make several web mashups. As I’ve learned of new APIs I’ve thought if it made sense to add them, most don’t.  I did start adding support for the BestBuy Remix [...]

I do too much thinking. Perhaps I should have been a philosopher, but I don’t want to live in the streets like Diogenes. I need income, quite badly really. So I sometimes wonder if all the time I spend thinking, I should be spending doing something else.  Ditto for blogging. But what? Regardless, over the [...]