The sandbox is pretty easy to work with. I haven’t checked it in IE6, but things seem to be going smoothly. I decided a “cloud” motif. The truth is, I am not much of a graphic designer. I know what looks good, but I can’t produce my own stuff very…
I actually just broke my wordpress with some theme that went haywire. Well, I guess it’s about time I made my own theme anyway. I am starting with the sandbox. I will be editing and upgrading this theme over time. First thing is clearly jQuery. Let’s get that bad boy…
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.7 beta 2. It was confusing at first because I had a plagin that hid the tree on the left. It’s an interesting upgrade so far. Some things seem better for me, and some things just rub me the wrong way. It’s just a beta,…
Yay for Barack Obama! The first Hawaian in the White House. I am extremely pleased. Did you know I predicted Biden would go for president in 2008. I predicted it in 2004!!! Who is the man?! Yet, lots of other things did not go so well. That horrible woman Bachmann…
Last year, I complained about too many California propositions and initiatives. Clearly, no one was paying any attention. There are a dozen new initiatives tomorrow. The answer to most of them is “I don’t know!” How am I supposed to know if the legislation will work? So this year, I…
2008: Sumo Wrestler (Picture to Come) 2007: Gorilla. Matthew was my monkey boy. 2006: Wizard. I scared the heck out of Matthew. He freaked. 2005: Jared apparently was a John looking for a hooker in a bar. Ahh, I was Superman! 2004: Superman. Wow, I wore it two years in…
Gallup released a pol in 2005 asking about paranormal activities. This is Gallup, not some fly-by-night polling service. It’s not very long, please look at it. I can’t believe, CAN”T BELIEVE that 37% of Americans believe that a house can be haunted. And 21% believe in witches. I don’t know…
I just upgraded my work computer to Photoshop CS4 Standard. I am not a power user of Photoshop. Actually, I am just a hack, but I get alot done with it. Sort of like my jQuery skills. Before going in to the upgrade, I want to declare my pre-conceived notions.…
There has been alot of news eminating from Redmond about Windows 7. I have looked closely at the screenshots. What am I missing here? Where is the “new”? I can’t find a new feature or benefit? Will it be faster? Really faster or fake faster? This just looks like…
Wow, that title was a mouthful. Ok, bottom line: It sucks. There is a term: convergence. It basically means that I could get video on my computer and watch it on my TV or mobile device. Specifically, it means giving my television (or connected devices) codecs and access to the…
I used to use Experts-Exchange alot. I really liked it and racked up a bunch of points. I could answer people’s questions and get instant positive karma (and points). It was a fun activity and it felt morally rewarding. I started in 2003 and sort of faded out on it…
There is no such thing as SaaS management software. There are bug trackers like Jira and Bugzilla. There is Agile project management software like TargetProcess or FogBugz. There is Microsoft Project. But there isn’t something I look at and say, “That would work to manage the never-ending work a SaaS…
Without any doubt in my mind, this is the holy grail of web development. A superDiv. I spoke with Brad Neuberg about this at AjaxExperience. He was working on possibly using the <canvas> tag to do interesting things like this. Corner.js does this pretty well for <img> tags, but not…
They all suck. How hard is this? The rules are simple. The business model is simple. People register and join a ladder. It costs a minimal amount per player, like 25 cents a month per player. Ladders have rankings for each player in the ladder. 1-n. Each player has a…