My technical meanderings and other nonsense. Published since 2002. No, really. I'm *that* internet-old. I remember the days of As if Cubs tickets aren’t hard enough to find already – the big trade will make things even tougher. I was lucky to attend one game already, thanks to one of my Dad’s co–workers. And with just two tickets for that game, Michelle got her early birthday gift, since I probably won’t be able to [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2004
NetFlix ideas and theories
I’ve been utilizing the NetFlix online DVD service for about a month now, and it is a very impressive commodity. I like the enormous selection of DVDs to choose from, and the fact that DVDs come to me in the mail every few days, which takes less of my time, since I never have to [...]
Links: 07/29/2004
Keith Robinson discusses the “Title attribute,” of a web browser. It’s something I rarely consider “good development” skills, but maybe I should reconsider my stance… Todd Dominey shares a horrid story, about a dog. Too bad this probably happens every day – somewhere in the world. PHP and ASP go head to head. I tried [...]
Time, patience, and revision
Oh, if time could just be put on hold for a little bit… It would give me time to write. There are so many good ideas floating around in my head, and I want to write about them… but that clock just keeps moving forward. (And tonight I want to watch the rest of “Something’s [...]
Links: 07/28/2004
I have an RSS feed from this site, but I always make the effort to actually visit the site, to read entries. I can’t get enough of the yellow! An excellent discussion about “clean URL’s” has been started by Mike Davidson. Definitely worth a read. Doug Bowman breaks down Microsoft’s table–based design, and pushes CSS [...]
‘Read the full entry’ issues
I’ve been asking around, and I have yet to receive an answer. I need to know how some blogs allow for only a brief “snippet” of their entry to be shown on the front page, much like I do. The reason I want to know how other people do it, is because the way I [...]
Links: 07/26/2004
Are celebrity defendants helped or hurt by their fame? CNN has some strange voting options on this one… The Internet Explorer team now has a web log, and (wow), there have been some harsh (strong) comments as of late. Like I said sometime before… I love web developers that are ruthless. It shows a real [...]
Britney – Everytime piano tab
Today I sat down and decided to learn how to play Everytime, by Britney, on the keyboard. I figured it would be a good song to learn. It’s very pretty, slow, and seemed relatively simple. And since the album version of the song uses a keyboard, it made it that much easier to find the [...]
PHP project: convert times to numbers
One of the major obstacles I had when creating this new version of my site was how to differentiate a group of timestamps, and order them chronologically – from earliest to latest – and then number them accordingly (01, 02, 03, etc). Let’s say I have written three blog entries for today. The three entries [...]
Larger Flash keyframe number, please!
One of my “pet peeves” with developing sites in Flash is the tiny keyframe number, which indicates the current keyframe that you have selected. It’s just too small and unnoticeable. In the above image, I’ve put a red box around the number, so everyone knows what I am referring to. Ironically enough, I’ve made it [...]