Flight 515

Reviews: Music: Odessa (2010). After four months of a long, slow slide down to original content oblivion, I drive a stake into the ground by reviewing Caribou’s latest single and hold on for dear life. 20 March 2010.

Meta: Seven years, seven wonders. A fond look back at the first eighty-four months of Flight 515 on the air. 1 February 2010.

Reviews: Music: Party Is Over, Pornostar (2007). I help China in its plans to take over the world by writing about the debut album of Beijing-based group Snapline. 22 November 2009.

An open letter. My response to Ebony S. Montgomery’s letter to the editor Negative stereotype of Asians in Daily Tar Heel, which was published in Thursday’s edition of The Daily Tar Heel. 13 November 2009.

Well, leave us an emotional pace. Really? What are you doing walking? It’s Saturday night! 4 October 2009.

Short tips on using HTML 5. A few notes on oddities and pitfalls in current browsers, and how to work around them. 27 September 2009.

Reviews: Music: Part the Second (2009). I continue this summer’s theme of jumping in midway through things with a review of maudlin of the Well’s latest effort. 6 September 2009.

Reviews: Anime: Minami-ke Okawari (2008). Because, as everyone knows, the best way to explain a 2000s Japanese anime series is to compare it to a 1950s American B movie. 13 July 2009.

Meta: Excuses, excuses. In my defense, I’ve been spending time writing a journal post in my defense. 22 June 2009.

Reviews: Music: This Binary Universe (2006). Yes, it’s review three, but it’s all about base two. Make sense? Hey, it’s not like there’s an album called This Ternary Universe. 20 May 2009.

Failure to launch. Why redesigning for redesigning’s sake rarely goes well: a usability critique of the student-created NCSSM At a Glance replacement, NCSSM Connected. 4 May 2009.

My apologies to 208.43.122.87. I hope that I can make up for some of the suffering, anguish, and 404 responses someday. 25 April 2009.

Reviews: Music: Falling Down (2009). And so, by posting two posts on the same subject at around the same time of the month for two successive months, I thusly pretend to establish a monthly music review column. Then I overuse the word month, to the chagrin of all involved. 24 April 2009.

Armchair philosophical observations on the nature of life, volume one. This week, a beckoning wave from my Adium contact list. Or maybe just a lot of messages going hey. 6 April 2009.

What happens on the hallways stays on the hallways. You see, it’s not a college weekend until a papier-mâché head gets torn off. 28 March 2009.

Reviews: Music: XTRMNTR (2000). I take a break from trying to silence the ringing in my ears to review the album that caused it in the first place. 21 March 2009.

Meta: To reboot, kick computer. Flight 515 version 13 is finally launched, so now I have an excuse to go and procrastinate some more… as if I needed another. 14 March 2009.

The 2008 Vice-Presidential Debate, as per Emacs’ dissociated-press. It won’t be as drilled. In this planet. That don’t time for them to senator? 3 October 2008.

A short breakdown of Chinese social gatherings that totally generalizes in some places, but that’s okay, right? In which I describe what to expect if you invite a few Chinese families over for a potluck dinner at your place. 29 December 2006.

On writer’s block. Nobody ever said being an author was easy, but that doesn’t mean we can’t complain about how hard it is on occasion. 11 May 2006.

Cursory examination. Or, what you get when you put 200 high school students in the same room and ask them to explain stuff to you. 3 May 2006.

The curse of the Web designer. Web design isn’t all peaches and cream. 1 April 2006.