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16 November 2024

UoP is the personal blog of Minneapolis-based freelance web developer and independent musician Scott Anderson @room34.

You can find Scott's music — as Room 34 — on YouTube, Bandcamp, and all major streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify. He also plays bass with 32nd Street Jazz, South High Community Band and Lake Country Jazz Collective.

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Class reunions in the Facebook era

2012
It’s a sunny August morning. I’m sitting in front of my computer in a t-shirt, shorts and Converse sneakers, listening to Rush. You could easily…
My Simpsons family

2007
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Burger King-sponsored “Simpsonize Me” site. Well, I never got that to work, but a colleague recently started…
Day Out with Thomas

2006
We have a 3-year-old son, which means, inevitably, that our house is filled beyond capacity with Thomas the Tank Engine paraphernalia. Over the year-plus of…

If you use WordPress, get my On This Day plugin to put this widget on your own site!

16 November 2024
Safari vs. WordPress 6.7 Block Editor: Who’s to blame for forced PNG-to-HEIC conversion?

16 November 2024
tl;dr update: I submitted a bug report about this issue to the WordPress Trac, it was fixed in 6.7.1, and I was even credited as…
Covering Kraftwerk: the process (part 1)

16 November 2015
As my Twitter followers know, I’ve concocted a harebrained scheme to record an EP of Kraftwerk covers, using solely the Pocket Operator calculator-esque synthesizers from…
New Room 34 CD coming soon…

16 November 2011
The time has come once again for me to engage in the extreme narcissism of producing a compilation album. I’ve recorded a crap-ton of music…
Reason enough (for me) to install Windows (and Google Chrome)

16 November 2009
Sure, I own a real NES. Two, in fact. I also own a GBA Micro, Nintendo DS, and a Wii, with emulated versions of all…

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