January 31, 2006, 10:11 AM ET
Chicagocrime.org covered in El Pais
It's an honor to have been covered in El Pais, a great European newspaper (and Spain's largest). I never thought I'd be quoted in Spanish.
January 22, 2006, 12:05 AM ET
Gypsy jazz version of Super Mario Bros 2 song
Today I stumbled upon VGMix.com, an online community of amateur musicians who make recordings of video-game music. This sounded fun to me, so I spent some time recording a guitar version of the Super Mario Bros 2 level-one theme, in the style of Django Reinhardt (gypsy jazz).
After I spent a while recording and mixing this, though, it was just my luck to find out VGMix.com isn't accepting new registrations, so I can't actually post the song to the site. I guess I'll just post it here:
Gypsy jazz Super Mario Bros. 2 by Adrian Holovaty
It was recorded on a small computer microphone, so the sound quality could be a lot better. Hope somebody gets a kick out of it.
UPDATE: By popular request, I've posted the chords for my arrangement.
January 6, 2006, 10:17 AM ET
Newest projects at work
Just a quick note on some things I've done lately:
- Last week I put together a Web interface for a Washington Post database of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's previous rulings. It only took a couple of days, thanks to Django.
- We continue to improve the U.S. Congress votes database (which I've previously written about). We're now displaying bill titles (example) and categories (example), and each category has its own page listing bills in that category (for example, bills about sculptures).
More to come, of course.
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