Logos are so tough. Every group needs a logo to hang its hat on. You need it for t-shirts and mugs and business cards and letter head. There are hundreds of companies out there, as well as freelance designers who will make a logo pretty inexpensively. However, only some logos get the status of “awesome”. …
I used to hate wearing hats. They would feel uncomfortable. I never used one while playing tennis until this year. At some point, I bought a can of tennis balls that came with a nice looking hat from Wilson. I wasn’t wearing it, but while playing tennis I started to feel the top of my…
I have had a fish tank for a few years now. I have progressively increased the size of the tank over the years, but it’s still not huge, as fish tanks go. Its 29 gallons. Still, that’s actually alot of water. It’s very heavy too. You need serious furniture underneath it and it’s a real…
I woke up early this morning. I didn’t want to wake up early. I have no idea why it happened, but once I am up, there is no going back. So I did some chores. I cleaned the fish tank. I added one additive that I am hoping doesn’t kill all the fish. It was…
Recently I was looking at Veoh. It seems to be a YouTube competitor. It has a nice UI and works pretty much the same way as YouTube. However, they allow you to download any of the videos, if you register. They also have a Veoh Player, but as far as I can see, the downloads…
jQuery 1.1.3 just got released. It’s 800% faster on average than 1.1.2 and still 20k. It also hase a few bells and whistles which will make my life easier. One thing I wish I had last month is a negative selector like $(“div[@id!=test]”). The exclamation point helps because I can say do something to anything…
I just finished watching the movie Bridge to Terabithia with Katie and the Kids. It was the saddest thing I have seen in years. I almost started crying. I had that terrible lump in my throat. I can still feel it. I thought it was going to be a movie like The Lion, The Witch…
I have been getting myself accustomed to the idea that my first book advance check will go to a list of fun stuff. Here is my current list. Logitech Harmony 800 Remote Control (or equivalent) Digital recorder for Katie. I don’t know which one is best. It’s for recording her singing. Wii. You know, for…
An engineer friend of mine needed some help on CSS. He was extremely frustrated with the CSS. As I fixed it, he looked at me like I was performing black magic. I asked, “Isn’t programming like this?” He said, “No, programming is more deterministic.” This made me think about all of the HTML/CSS I have…
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. –Jean Rostand I highly resemble this quote.
Surprisingly, I get alot of traffic from Google for my post about Dynamite Hack’s Boy’s in da hood. The video is even better than the lyrics, if that is possible. Thank YouTube for the video. Man, YouTube kicks ass. Ethan was singing Bon Jovi’s You Give Love a Bad Name, because he heard Blake Lewis…
Exciting news: The book publisher has green lit my book. I am starting to write it now. It is about jQuery and how it empowers designers. I will give a better summary after I work on it for a little while. I get an advance and everything. The book will be made of physical paper…
In tennis, there is a terrible disease called, “Your inner dialogue.” I have this in spades. I just recently got my raquet restrung with a different string. The pro said, the softer string will break sooner, and the medium string will have less touch. So when I played, I literally couldn’t keep the ball in the court. …
So much to do. So little time. I find lists to help me organize my thinking. I had a dream last night that I was adding the Google Analytics script to http://js.commadot.com. I really should do that. Check out a JPG of the new Google Analytics version coming soon. I like the design and am…