I am interested in writing a book. It’s hard to get started and get organized. The theme of the book is this: People who know HTML and CSS, but are newbies or know nothing about JavaScript can create nice looking but static websites. They can’t add interactivity unless an engineer…
It was 12 years ago tomorrow, St. Patricks Day. I went downtown in NYC with my cousin Andy. We hit Jack Dempseys Bar. Is that the right one? I saw this girl across the room smiling at me. I asked Andy if he knew her. he said, "Her name is…
I saw this article while searching for the use of animated logos as "please wait" icons.http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511284.aspx It is part of a larger UX guidelines kit from MS regarding VIsta.http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511258.aspx Amazingly, it is quite objective and even harsh against certain Microsoft tendencies. I think it’s awesome that a company can be…
I used to slam LinkedIn for being too complicated. It was so hard to just get up and running because you needed to know everyone’s email. However, after using it for a little while, it has grown on me. It has nice features and a crisp design. Several UX things…
This is my idea for a cool site that would help alot of people. The URL is available now: jsFrameworks.com. It would have sections for all the javascript frameworks. The idea is to have similar or identical challenges with the different implementations from the different JS Framework communities. So, for…
Something is definetely going on. Bees have disappeared all over America.http://digg.com/environment/Earth_Life_Threats_Alarming_Disappearance_of_Honey_Bees This is not cool. A third of all of our agriculture depends on these little creatures. We are not ready to deploy millions of nanobots either! We are not far enough along to make “The Age of Spiritual Machines”…
I was forced to do the unthinkable. I used my first css hack. I was trying to modify the style of an existing UL-LI structure as a row of tabs. Everything was honkey-dory until I tested in IE6. I looked at it and said, “Yuck”. The LI’s were not stacking…
I shaved the beard. I like the way it looked, but I just couldn’t get used to the way it felt. I was constantly touching it and playing with the whiskers with my tongue. It was a fairly bad Cher impersonation. This is me WITHOUT the beard. This is me…
Ann Coulter is the worst human being on the face of the earth. Ok, maybe that isn’t true. Kim Jong-il is worse. But she sucks. She just gave a speech and called John Edwards a “#@%^”. (censored, because I seriously don’t want to repeat it, although the news media has no issues…
Matthew has made me sick. His cough and stuff nose have worked their way over to me. I didn’t used to get sick before these little germ factories were born. I used to have to “pretend” to be sick, just so I could stay home from school. I don’t ever…
Our whole telephony situation has been in flux. First, we are sick of Vonage acting like crap. We are taking our first steps to getting rid of it completely. Second, we have been sick of Cingular getting crappy coverage. So we pulled the trigger and got new Verizon phones this…
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/us/2007/02/25/teselle.ca.stacking.competition.affl&wm=11 This is insane. We are the most competitive society EVER. The things we do to feel competition. Look at that kid crying! I am all in favor of being competitive, but stacking cups? Come on. I mean…come ON.
My wife often tells me. Never say anything bad about anyone or anything ever. And ESPECIALLY not in print, email or blog. She is wise. It reminded me of the first days of commadot.com. http://web.archive.org/web/19970618002257/www.commadot.com/beta/html/archive.htm I am starting to copy in those posts and edit the timestamp to match the…
Ive been working hard trying to learn how to do what came so naturally and easy to me in jQuery in YUI and YUI-ext. I have been scouring the forums and the documentation. I can’t understand any of it. It just isn’t designed for a non-programmer. But I have no…