I recently started playing Lord of the Rings Online again, and I’ve had a good time re-learning how the in-game music system works. I tried to write a pretty in-depth view of this as a developer and a gamer, but the musician in me won’t shut up.
Revelation in Narrative
Scintillating starlight gleamed between the wisps of misty cloud. The symphony of cricket drones beat a counterpoint to the chattering of oak leaves in the late night breeze. Shafts of cold clear light from Luclin’s lunar surface snaked across the surface of the lake below, and the earth was still. So still that Naethan knelt [...]
Life Through an Aperture
Perhaps the title of this post is not quite as descriptive or logical as I would hope, but I’m realizing now that every stage of life requires you to view the world through a specific set of limitations. When you’re a little kid, you see world through the back seat. I have memories of landscapes [...]
CSS Abstraction
This post is being created due to the fact that two things have come up which are new to me. Point the first The first is that I’ve never had a meaningful conversation on twitter that needed to elevate to a better, more spacious medium. In most cases, points brought up in 140 chars are [...]
Bards, Kings and Heroes
In this world, there are a variety of people who live in the public view. You have a variety of public figures who have been elevated to that status as the result of their efforts in their personal lives, their choice of profession, and any other number of reasons. For the sake of argument I’m [...]
Keep from losing your mind with SVN
There are a lot of version control systems out there, and to be honest, most of them have pretty useful guides on how to get them working. But over the years, I’ve had a lot of web people (namely designers, content writers, and SEO folks) ask me how to set up SVN on their systems, [...]
Ultra Meta
Why Leon Paternoster doesn’t like Tumblr & Posterous – Monday By Noon. This article taught me about Press This, which I am then using to post the link to that article. My brain hurts.
Voodoo Management
This topic has come up a lot of times in conversation, and it just came up again when I was discussing something with my wife. I don’t know if this is actually an idea that exists in management training or concepts of leadership, but if it is, it’s related to “voodoo economics.” The idea is [...]
Graceful Degradation or Progressive Enhancement?
The HTML5 Spec is trudging slowly (yet inevitably) closer to completion, and CSS Level Three is being picked up by Mozilla at a rate almost equal to their Webkit equivalents. What does this mean for those of us who make a living building websites? Simply put, we’re not all getting the same internet. As argued by the [...]
Frist p0st!
I know they say you should lead off a new blog or any form of media with a fairly strong indication of the tone that you’re going to go with. But I can’t help it, I’m a smartass. So maybe it’s appropriate, in the end. After dallying in a variety of technologies, including a failure [...]
Nathan St. Pierre is a digital-age renaissance man (or jack-of-all-trades, depending on your take on specialization). He writes articles on topics like music, writing, and web development. He is available to work, write, or speak regarding any of these.
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