Stephen Yeargin

This afternoon I finally set foot in the Municipal Auditorium, something I had managed to avoid doing in the entire time I have lived in middle Tennessee. The Bridgestone Arena (and its half dozen or so other names) opened three years before I got to Nashville in 1999, so every downtown sporting event or concert [...]

Back in the spring of 2002, I traveled with a group of student government officials to march on the state capitol building to voice our opposition to impending budget cuts to higher education. We sold brownies and cookies on War Memorial Plaza as part of the protest. At the end of the day, the proceeds [...]

The last 48 hours have included some minor Web development on side projects, goofing around with the Roku player, a hockey game, tweaks to some posters for church, decorating the church for Christmas and capped off by yet another hockey game. Not a bad way to close out the Thanksgiving holiday. Tomorrow I might decide [...]

We were sitting on the bleachers at Vanderbilt Stadium on Saturday, waiting for the evening’s performances from Robert Earl Keen, Jason Mraz and the Dave Matthews Band to begin when it all came rushing in. It caught me a bit off guard, but not totally surprised. Everything must be dealt with in due time. It [...]

I have been spending most of my free time lately toiling away on a new theme for my Web site. It is a rather “inspired” work (read: you have seen variations of it before elsewhere), but I have the original PSD files to prove I actually designed it. Samantha is helping me with the textures [...]

This is not so much a review for Shazam, even though I personally believe that it is the best free application on my iPhone. Instead, it is about a way forward for radio and the music industry as a whole. The application can tag almost any music it records with the accurate song title and [...]

Apple has quietly added a “feature” to their latest round of MacBooks to prevent customers from playing digital rights managed (DRM) movies purchased through their iTunes Store on non-compliant external displays. The goal is to plug the so-called “analog loophole” that would allow someone to record the video output for illegal distribution. [via Wired.com and [...]

My wife and I went a week ago to a lecture by Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret.com, at Vanderbilt University. He spoke at length about how his art project escalated to a global phenomenon, yielding four books and numerous national media appearances. Interwoven within all of that was a discussion of the human condition [...]

We are going to BarCamp Nashville 2008 October 18 at the Sommet Center in downtown Nashville. BarCamp Nashville is an open-source gathering of technology enthusiasts who come together for one weekend to share what they know and learn what they don’t. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with [...]

I really should have learned my lesson after my trip to the zoo. This time I did not get the advance warning of watching a school bus pull up in front of the Parthenon at Centennial Park; the third graders all just appeared out of nowhere. I guess it says something that I am spending [...]