I do realize this is quite a long shot, but I was told at K5 that lots of you folks live in The Valley.

I need a ride from San Jose to Tracy, California to pick up my car from a repair shop.  The mechanic left it outside so I could pick it up after hours tonight.  I wrecked it there at Thanksgiving, but it's fixed now.

For your trouble, I offer a supper in a nice restaurant, I'll buy your gas, and give you a free copy of my piano CD, Geometric Visions.

I had a ride all arranged and everything, but he had to cancel.

           
        I am considering an opportunity that would involve working on-site as a software engineer at a company in the Gastown district of Vancouver, British Columbia.  The work would pay well enough to solve a lot of problems I have.

It is close to the Burrard Inlet waterfront, the Waterfront Station and Portside Park.  My question for HuSi is: would I feel safe walking in that neighborhood at night?

It's on the edge of the Downtown Eastside, the poorest neighborhood in Canada.  While efforts are underway to revitalize it, it is widely regarded as a dangerous place to be.  I will be quite close to West Hastings Street.  The East end of that street is vividly described in the above-linked page as a really scary place.  Downtown Eastside was once where a serial killer plied his trade.

I normally work from home.  I last worked on-site in the South of Market District of San Francisco in late 2000.  I had to walk about a mile to catch the Bay Area Rapid Transit Train at the Powell Station.  When I had to do so at night, it scared the living bejeezus out of me.  I swore never to do it again.

Poll: Should I take the job?

A couple days ago I relicensed my music to the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 License, Creative Commons' answer to the GNU GPL. Just now I made Ogg Vorbis downloads available, which are both higher quality yet smaller than my MP3s. Please enjoy and share on the Internet:

• Geometric Visions: Compositions for the Piano by Michael David Crawford
  1. Emergence - 2:13 - MP3 3.1 MB - Ogg 2.3 MB
  2. Recursion - 10:18 - MP3 14.5 MB - Ogg 10.8 MB
  3. Sahara - 7:26 - MP3 10.5 MB - Ogg 7.7 MB
  4. As Yet Untitled - 3:00 - MP3 - 4.2 MB - Ogg - 3 MB

I'm just learning to use Lilypond and will be posting both PDFs and Lilypond source of the scores as I get them done. They will also have a Creative Commons license.

Poll: Which of My Songs is Your Favorite?

Well, I am chagrined to say you have helped me understand that scoop sites aren't all the same. My story that was overwhelmingly rejected here just made front page at K5, 141 to 71, with 86 front page votes.

One the other hand, the gentlemen who asked me if I would make such a speech in my local pub gave me reason to understand why I might well like it better here. See my advice to a new K5 member. He's a troll of course, but I'm having fun pretending I don't realize that.

I'm solicing comments as to whether I should submit my previous diary The Way of the White Hat SEO Ninja (note that's a HuSi link) as a K5 story. What's your take? (Poll Inside) If you don't already know me from K5 and slashdot, you're going to get an eyeful from that diary.

... but one thing I don't love about them is that if they throw up, you have to catch them real quick or they'll gobble it back up.

Twiggy was begging for food again afterwards (after all, she lost her supper) so I went out and bought some tuna, and gave them a half a can each. (Had to share with Jacob or he just wouldn't have understood.)

I wrote a new article yesterday, that you will likely think is some kind of scam, but it's not, not at all, if you will trust me to actually go take a look. The link is a GoogleBomb instead of the title, for reasons I will explain:

• Google AdSense Tips and Tricks

It's actually called "Earn High by Playing it Clean". Many of my articles start out as mailing list, website or usenet posts, this one in response to someone at Webmasterworld who asked if it was possible to earn real money by operating a legimate website. That is, one that is well-designed, popup-free and with real content. I worked hard to help him and others understand that it is, and that it's actually the best way.

Greetings, this is my first diary at HuSi, but I've been lurking for quite a while.

I'm a software consultant. A while back I got tired of being mercilessly hounded by the recruiters who feed off the labour and naivety of contract programmers, so I wrote down everything I knew about how to find work in an article called:

• Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants

It explains how I've only had to use a broker just once in seven years of software consulting. Today I revised it for the first time since I wrote Enjoy.