Monthly Archives: August 2005

Choraling Rutter

Kudos to Dan Forrest. I didn’t really know him that well, but we were in at least one music theory class together in college. Apparently he needed the class less than I, because he just beat out John Rutter for first prize in the John Ness Beck award for outstanding selected sacred choral [...]

New WordPress Plugin

I’m been using a handy JavaScript function to extract blockquote sources from the “cite” attribute and put it at the bottom of the quotation, and I’ve done something similar to make image captions from the image “title” attribute. So I decided to put it into a WordPress plugin so others could do the same. The [...]

WordPress Comments Preview Updated . . . Again

Thanks to some helpful feedback in the last few days, I’ve made a couple of updates to my WordPress comments preview plugin. Hopefully this kind of input will help to make the Filosofo Comments Preview plugin robust.

Lamb Kebabs

Reading the Metro rag on the T yesterday, I thought the following recipe sounded tasty: THIS FUN party food gets your guests involved with the cooking by allowing them to make their own kebabs. This dish, a traditional Greek entrée that chef Michael Psilakis revised for the grill, is perfect for any season. Ingredients: 1 leg of lamb, [...]

Sacrificing their Lives for Islam: Our American Troops

I’m afraid the editors of the New York Times may be right: Americans continue dying in Iraq, but their mission creeps steadily downward. The nonexistent weapons of mass destruction dropped out of the picture long ago. Now the United States seems ready to walk away from its fine words about helping the Iraqis create a beacon [...]

Now That’s Commitment

I saw this on the PATH train that runs between New Jersey and Manhattan.