Austin has grown fast, but it has grown from a tiny urban core — meaning that we have less pre-World War II buildings than probably any other city our size in the South. Many neighborhoods quite close to downtown were developed in the 1960’s or later — the city basically ended 3 miles in each direction until 1960. This means you can live in verdant, “The Wonder Years”-esque suburbia and still be downtown in 15 minutes.
I stumbled upon ..read more
Side note: I’ve still got that magical touch when it comes to on-the-spot puns and portmanteaux! Datacatessen would make a great website name.
Last.fm is one of the handful of RSS-enabled, social connectivity-type websites I consistently use. (My user name is sophistidisco.) Ostensibly, the point of ‘scrobbling’ (from a business perspective) is to aggregate listening data in order to assess trends in popular music. Then, there’s the actual jukebox part of the site, which I have to admit ..read more
