David Emery Online

Hi there, I’m David. This is my website. I work in music for Apple. You can find out a bit more about me here. On occasion I’ve been known to write a thing or two. Please drop me a line and say hello. Views mine not my employers.

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Sleevage: Editors: The End Has a Start

Very interesting article on the cover for the Editors latest album. I’m not particularly a fan of theirs, but the cover and the other bits of photography used are really quite nice.

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wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle

Very nifty Wikipedia – Fire Eagle mashup that shows you Wikipedia articles around where you are at the moment. Definitely want to do some geo-location based stuff soon…

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Matador Intended Play sampler 2008 — ready to download and burn

Everyone likes a good bit of free, legitimate indie music, don’t they? 12 tracks from Matador Records’ finest.

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Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90

Nothing I could write would do him justice. He was one of the best.

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Rapper DMX on Barack Obama

Guess what all you middle class white people that read the internet? Most people (even in the US) couldn’t care less about the forthcoming presidential election, let alone about who might be in the running to run.

And really, why would they care? Is it really going to make any difference to them?

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Safari 3.1

Awesomeness – Apple have released a new version of Safari for Mac and Windows (and they still releasing for 10.4 as well, which is nice) that supports CSS Animation, Transitions and Web fonts among other things. That means the time I spent when I launched this design adding CSS Animations wasn’t in vain (so if you’ve just upgraded, this is probably a good site to test it out in).

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Martian Headsets

4749 words that, if you’re a web developer, are a must read. The definitive last word in all this IE standards stuff that’s been going round recently, although that last word could well be ‘screwed’.

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