You may not be aware of it, but someone has spent twenty-some million dollars to build a Creation Museum. I hope you take the time to read and enjoy John Scalzi’s report about his trip to this shrine to creationsim as much as I did – especially the part about vegeterian dinosaurs. It’s one thing […]
Frustrated co-worker: If they know so much about web site standards, how come they can’t freakin make an href tag without calling me?
Why do newbies like to tightly couple systems to the point that a simple change is very likely to result in everything breaking? Is it just a lack of experience, ie not having a big system fail on you? Its a shame if failure is the only thing you learn from. The other part of
For a while now, digital cameras have been able to record movies along with just taking photographs. Camera vendors use different video codecs to compress and save the video you take. Common codecs include one of Apple’s quicktime codecs (usually saved as a .mov file) and a variety of codecs with the .avi extension. AVI
On our way to dinner Friday, my Dad and I were wondering what is the exact difference between a router and a switch. Sounds like something basic most anybody with a home network should know, but at best all we could do was guess/BS our way through the answer. Wikipedia to the rescue. Router A
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I don’t know why I’d expect a summary of survey results to actually have something intereesting in it, but I guess that’s a bi-product of something that reads as if it was written by committee. Latino immigrants who have been in the U.S. for decades and those who arrived as children are less connected than
Here’s an article Jason is sure to enjoy, Digg’s failing democracy. I agree mostly, Digg was novel at first, but now for every potentially interesting story on any page, there are 10 others that are a waste of time. Here’s a telling fact: slashdot is still in my feed reader, while digg’s feed was removed
The video below is a great attempt at explaining it in layman friendly terms, but I doubt that most people, especially the majority of those whose job touches the web in one form or another, will really grok it. I blame Word Processors, which taught a generation of folks that content and formatting are basically
Shockingly, Web Designers should know how to design for the web, not just for Photoshop. Its a point that was driven home during my recent trip to California for Forum One’s (my employer) Online Community Summit. While I may not have done a comprehensive survey, I visited another web company there, and also met a
Whoa, its been more than two weeks since I posted, which is just a minor indicator that I’ve been both busy and slightly unmotivated to write. Right now, I’m up in Sonoma, CA for Forum One’s Online Community Summit. Its been an fun trip, and the conference sessions have brought out some very interesting ideas.