In Harry Potter, all of the newspapers have pictures that move by magic. The reality is that this magic is pretty much here now. My inexpensive digital camera takes photos or short video clips. You can take video clips with your iPhone too. These short video clips are downloaded off the camera by Picasa and…
Google Chrome is really pushing the envelope in the browser experience. With their latest build, they added in this cool little feature in their omnibar. Unlike Internet Explorer and Firefox, the URL bar doubles as a search bar. I definitely like it it better as one. In the latest build, Chrome is going down a really interesting…
If you had to choose one, which would you prefer? A Great Plan or a Great Process. A Great Plan is the waterfall approach. You plan out all the details in advance. You design everything. You have lots of meetings to gain consensus. This is the way bridges and roads are built. Once the blueprint…
If you have a decent browser (not Internet Explorer), go to FlyOsity.com. Look closely at the fonts. They are embossed. He is using a css line like this: -webkit-text-shadow: rgba(255,255,255,.8) 0 1px 0 This puts a slight white shadow under the text and gives it the feeling of being etched into the page. I think…
Why do we care when we hit milestones? Life is too monotonous. Time flies by if you aren’t careful. The last 10 years for me has been a blur. It seems the older I get, the quicker time goes by. We need markers to keep our minds punctuated. We can’t just have a long giant…
For a long time now, we have been using TargetProcess at work as our work planning/bug tracking tool. At first I liked it OK. Over time I liked it less and less. At some point, we hit rock bottom and I said, “Let’s try and set this up again, but this time, let’s read the…
I had signed up for the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview. I wasn’t sure how quickly it would work, if at all. Lo and Behold, I got my invitation pretty quickly. It actually took me a while to realize it because they sent me the invitation to Hotmail. Who the heck uses Hotmail these days? …
I have been using font substitution script Cufon for a little while now. It works really well. It uses <canvas> to render fonts rather than flash, which is what sIFR does. Although, sIFR works well, I found it a little hard to set up. I don’t have Flash so creating the SWF files seemed difficult.…
What’s a Purple Cow? Seth Godin wrote a book about them. A purple cow is something remarkable. People like these kinds of things and they will talk about them and buy them. What is Email Marketing? I am talking about legitimate emails from marketing folks in real companies that allow you to unsubscribe. Not spam…
I can’t help myself. I love typography. It makes such a difference. I tried a bunch of fonts from http://www.dafont.com/. They are organized nicely and have liberal usage policies. The only suggestion I would make to them is that they should use cufon or sIfr and allow me to type in my own sentence and…
Apparently, NASA has lost the original high quality footage of the 1969 moon landing. Apparently, in the 80’s we sent new spy satellites into space that were recording a ton of new footage. NASA was overwhelmed by the amount of tape required to store the footage, so they ERASED THE MOON LANDING to put some…
So it seems Mollom was acting weird for some people. So I switched to NoSpamNX. It doesn’t use JavaScript at all. Hopefully, it will not screw up. There are so many options for this feature. I just want it to work 100% without any failure and invisibly to the audience. Is that so hard?
I use DSLExtreme for my internet access at home. I have been a customer for many years. Not too expensive, good up-time. I have been meaning to call them for 2 years. The reason for the call was that I think I was over-paying. I was getting 3 megabits download speed, but I was paying…
I blogged about this 4 years ago, but I actually used the quote today in a conversation. Portion of a poem by Robert Burns, To a Louse. Robert Burns has written some good stuff. O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free…