http://andrewfreiday.com Home of Andrew Freiday. Just another useless blog on the Internet. Programming, music, photography, and other crap you probably won't read. Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:55:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Overall, this book was pretty frustrating to read. I am a fairly open-minded person, but I don't consider myself an atheist or a theist. I consider myself pretty intellectual, but I don't consider myself an expect in science, philosophy or logic. However, despite these fairly even balances -- which ... http://andrewfreiday.com/2007/07/16/i-dont-have-enough-faith-to-be-an-atheioverst-by-norman-l-geisler-and-frank-turek/ I've spent a little bit of time this weekend looking for some new music to add to my already eclectic iTunes playlist. And without my Last.fm user account I wouldn't have been able to find any of these. I've been a Last.fm member for a little more than two years now, ... http://andrewfreiday.com/2007/07/08/recently-discovered-artists/ Wow, this is certainly not what I expected. Again, my expectations getting in the way, but I don't think any fan of Tomahawk can deny that this album practically came out of nowhere in terms of musical anticipation. For the first few tracks I was hard-pressed to believe that this ... http://andrewfreiday.com/2007/07/04/tomahawk-anonymous/ I needed a good two weeks or so -- past the two weeks that I wasn't even aware this album was out -- to fully get a grip on it. However, I knew from the very first track ('The Surge') that this was different, a lot different, from the ... http://andrewfreiday.com/2007/07/02/ion-dissonance-minus-the-herd/ There's no human interest that can generate such extreme opinions as in music. I've certainly seen this to be true with some of my album reviews when people leave comments -- most of which I have to delete before they even reach the site. Since this is the case, I thought ... http://andrewfreiday.com/2007/06/17/my-all-time-top-albums/ Recently I had been reading a copy of Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold that I picked up from the library. This isn't the first time I've made my way through the pages of the book, but I was really focused on practicing the ... http://andrewfreiday.com/2007/06/12/my-lucid-dream-induction-experiences/ DMT: The Spirit Molecule, simply put, was one of the most fascinating and thought provoking books that I have ever read. I'm embarrassed to say that my first knowledge of the book came from some sort of radio chat Joe Rogan (Fear Factor, UFC commentator, comedian) that I came ... http://andrewfreiday.com/2007/06/08/dmt-the-spirit-molecule/ Recently in my work I had begun using some of the code offered from WROX's Professional PHP 5 book. Earlier, I even wrote about the UserSession class that I ported from PHP 5 to ASP 3. It's been in my experience with WROX's code that one of the most invaluable classes ... http://andrewfreiday.com/2007/05/28/php-pagination-with-a-collection-class/ Just like how I found out about "2012: The Return of Quetzacoatl" by Daniel Pinchbeck, I saw an interview with Neil on an episode of The Colbert Report, where he was promoting this new book, "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries". I can't recall how long ago the ... http://andrewfreiday.com/2007/05/27/death-by-black-hole-by-neil-degrasse-tyson/ This was my first attempt at the 'Introduction to Focus 10' track in many months but, needless to say, it wasn't very successful. Hemi-Sync Gateway Experience. Wave 1: Discovery - Introduction to Focus 10. Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007: 10:30pm to 10:45pm. Previous Hemi-Sync Gateway Experience Experiments: » Wave 1: Discovery - Orientation It was ... http://andrewfreiday.com/2007/05/24/hemi-sync-gateway-experience-wave-1-discovery-introduction-to-focus-10/