Review: Audio-Technica ATH-M30 Stereo Headphones
tl;dr : For the price, these cans can't be beat. Durable, simple, and powerful.
In 2005, I bought a pair of Audio Technica ATR-M30 headphones . After helping a band record an album ( Lost in Ecstasy, by the Priestie Boyz ), three trips to Europe, and hundreds of hours of listening enjoyment at home, nothing except the pads on these headphones has needed replacement (and those are cheap and
Matthew Schneider is spearheading an effort to get the hashtag #ThanksPontifex (and it's multilingual equivalents) trending globally on Twitter at 07:45 Rome time, in February 28. On his blog , he offers further details, and gives local times around the world for when you should tweet using this hashtag.
For those of you in St. Louis or otherwise in CST, tweet around 1:00 p.m. on the 28th.
Also in the post are a bunch of
Aquinas and More Closing
Aquinas and More , a great Catholic store that had probably the best selection of Catholic goods available online, seems to be going out of business soon. This is unfortunate, because that means I'll have to go to Catholic Ripoff Supply more often (and their website needs major improvement). Ah well.
For now until they run out of inventory, they're having a 20% off sale on almost everything.
Setting a max_execution_time limit for PHP CLI
PHP's command line interface doesn't respect the max_execution_time limit within your php.ini settings. This can be both a blessing and a curse (but more often the latter). There are some drush scripts that I run concurrently for batch operations that I want to make sure don't run away from me, because they perform database operations and network calls, and can sometimes slow down and block other operations.
The Mass, Explained by an App
The Mass Explained App for iPad looks like a pretty awesome app ("coming soon") from Agnus, LLC. I haven't seen the app in action (just screenshots), but even if it's just a bunch of static pages like an interactive book, it looks like the content is high-quality:
Using FeedBurner? For the sake of control, enable MyBrand service
We use and recommend FeedBurner for RSS feed stats, podcasting, and the other helpful services it provides. However, one downside of redirecting your website's users to your FeedBurner feed is the fact that you have no control over FeedBurner's URL for your feed.
Say, for instance, you burned a feed at https://feeds.feedburner.com/midwesternmac . If, in a year or two, you need to change the shortcut, or you would like to switch back to your own feed
Need to evaluate a Drupal module, theme, or distro quickly? [Updated]
...there's a site for that.
I just found out about SimplyTest.me today, and it allows you to, well, simply test any Drupal.org-hosted module, theme, or distribution in seconds.
No longer do you need to spin up (or maintain) a live website locally (which usually takes an extra minute or twoâat least) just to check out a module or make sure a theme or distribution fits your needs before using it on a live or
Review: Philips Dimmable 12.5 Watt LED Light Bulb
tl;dr : The best value for a 60w replacement LED light bulb on the market, but doesn't dim very well. LED lighting still has room for improvement.
CFLs and the Current State of Affairs
In the past few years, I've been experimenting with different efficient light
What's a good video camera to use for short YouTube videos?
I've gotten this question enough times via email that I thought I'd create a quick blog post mentioning what I think is a good deal for a video camera setup for recording short videos, ideally with one person speaking.
In such a situation, since you probably won't see a major difference in picture quality in anything under $500, I'd skimp a little on the camera itself and just make sure the video camera you buy has an external microphone input, then buy a microphone
Beautiful tour of the Sistine Chapel (VR)
In some ways, viewing this VR image (zoom in to see incredible detail) is better than visiting in person, because you don't have to listen to constant shushing and be packed in a small space with more than a hundred other people!
The picture above was adjusted in Photoshop after a screen grab, and shows Michaelangelo's famous The Last Judgement .
The best part? It also works on the iPad. Check it out here: Virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel .