The "What?" and the "Why?"

I've been a fan of the MultiMarkdown for quite a while now. I keep all of my important notes in this format, which is easy to write with just a simple text editor.

I wanted to be able to copy or sync my *.mark files to my web server and have them automatically be rendered as XHTML. I looked into a couple of ways of doing this. One of which is the Text::MultiMarkdown::ApacheHandler Perl module Apache handler. The downside is that this handler doesn't work out of the box in Apache2.2.

Read on to see my solution. I've also seen a cgi based apache handler done by reppep as chronicled here. The only problem is that he's using the original Markdown. I've long been a fan of the extended syntax, and output formats I can get from MultiMarkdown. So I've build a similar script to what reppep has done.

I had a great idea

I've been a big fan of the TED talks for a while now and listening to them just inspired me to do something new.

Every so often I will post to this blog one of the great quotes I've stumbled across during my day.

Sir Ken Robinson on creativity

Taken from his TED Talk.

If you are not prepared to be wrong; you'll never come up with anything original

Hope you enjoy this new feature of my blog.

EDIT: 2008-03-03 14:00

Fixed my links. Sorry

I work in an office with four other people. This is a good thing when it comes to communicating and working together. However it can be a bit detrimental when it comes to entering into "The Zone".

To combat this, I've been listening to music through headphones... There is a bit of a problem with the solution I have noticed, not all music is conducive to entering "the zone".

Here's a list of artists whom I've decided are great for "Hack Music". Artists whose music is great for reducing ambient noise, while not distracting you too much.

• Muse
• Blue Man Group
• Thievery Corporation
• MC 900ft Jesus
• Daft Punk
• Basement Jaxx

What is your favorite "hack music"? Post a comment and we'll make a big list for everyone's enjoyment.