Archive for February, 2003



Have you ever taken an ants-eye view of a track on a familiar vinyl album and noticed that you could actually see the dynamics of the song? Then you’re probably at least 30, a geek, and once had too much time on your hands. (Me too!)

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p>If you’ve taken for CDs for granted your entire life, […]

Less-than-amazing Gracenote

Have you ever not had to fix the metadata that your CD ripper gets from Gracenote/CDDB? Neither have I.

Besides the fact that the quality of their metadata is a crapshoot, there are other reasons that Gracenote is generally distrusted. Some don’t appreciate that they claimed all rights to a community resource built by users, and […]

Andrew King, the founder and geek-behind-the-curtain at WebReference.com and JavaScript.com, has written a book on speeding up your web site with the refreshingly straightforward title of