So, J– and I have been looking for a house for about a month now. We’ve learned a few things: Basements in this area effin’ blow. Whatever crap some ice flow left in this hole thousands of years ago is begging for the next ice age, just to remove the apparent seventeen miles of clay […]
I could only hope to do something like this. Some guy (based on the URL, I assume his name is Paul Rademacher), wrote a scraper that maps all the listing from Craiglist with Google Maps. The results are freakin’ amazing. Link
Crap, crap, CRAP! The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie is bad. Really bad. You just won’t believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad it is. I mean, you might think that The Phantom Menace was a hopelessly misguided attempt to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who, though well-intentioned, completely failed to understand what made […]
If you visit this page via a browser, you’ll see a new design today. It’s not huge, just some color tweaks in the CSS and a banner image instead of the default MT stuff. Tweaking may continue, or I could just forget about it for another few months. I’m not designer, so bumping content around […]
If you’ve ever had to generate a color scheme (say for a website) but didn’t go it professionally, the availability of color wheel resources on the web is pretty depressing. Lots of people want to teach you about color, which isn’t bad, but few enable you to do real color design, such as generating a […]
I think the DNS attack that’s hitting the East coast is spreading to AA. My connection has been flaky all night. When can we get some vigilante justice for the fools that are poisoning the DNS servers? Idiot spammers. Side note: I know that “flaky” spell-checks properly, but shouldn’t it really be “flakey”? I may […]
Awesome article about buying a budget (read: under $400) LCD, with gaming in mind. The NEC LCD1770NX came out on top. Budget LCD Roundup
I have a news reader (duh) and with that comes about 500 feeds. I’ve never counted them, but that seems like a reasonable number. One of them happens to be Robert Scoble, who works for Microsoft. His title is something like Evangelist or something like that (I’m too lazy to look it up), but he’s […]
This hand slap to the head once again brought to you by Technical Writers. Someone with the title Technical Author (cue eye roll) posted a one sentence question to a Help-authoring tool list. To quote: “Can anyone tell me what ‘structured authoring’ is?”. This was met by links to a Google-searched PDF. The person read […]
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