What are we listening too ?

Well, right now, Serge Gainsbourg - Live au Palace 79. Tracks on heavy repeat are Les Locataires and Brigade des Stups.

Of course, here in the U.S. nobody knows him. But he was truly a man that loved the language. Something unique French (which I only understand a little - thanks to my 1st and 2nd grade french lessons - don't ask - an experiment). But with the help of Google Translate I can pick the sense and meaning together - and the Reggae is superb.

Linoléum un peu degueu, trou à la turque
Papier journal,

and

Je suis tombé sur des cops,
Ils ont cherché mon spliff,

Vim Folding - CSS Stylesheets - IE

A little quirk I noticed when using VIM folding in cascading style sheets with IE6. The foldings html comment entry <!-- {{{ --> seems to mess with IE handling of CSS, the style of the following element does not get honored completely. In my case, left and top were all of a sudden 0.

The fix is to insert a dummy element.

In Firefox the whole thing doesn't work like intended anyway.

From womb to tomb, from basket to casket

My brother-in-law was in town again for the 4th annual Jakson Spire fundraiser for the Ann Arbor School of Performing Arts. We went to it a little late, and caught the end of the Conqueroots with Al Jacques.

After them I was in for a real treat by George Bedard (of George Bedard and the Kingpins) and Drivin Sideways and Bill Kirchen

New Job

Well it happened again. Within a short time I was approached through LinkedIn about a job opportunity, and now I'm working developing software that helps in the management of the global network of a large Michigan based company. Since I have been driving two of their cars, and the group I'm working with made a really positive impression, I decided to follow my feelings and start something new. The commute is a little further than before, but so far not to bad. I get there in about 30 minutes.

On other hands, I ran speedtest today and it came up with this:
result

That's the fastest result I have ever gotten, and it's totally atypically of what I get on my larger downloads. And Chicago, which is not what Speedtest suggest as default is even faster

Shows you how much Comcast's PowerBoosts influences statistics. Meanwhile, AT&T offers a comparable service, for a lot less. I'm thinking about it !