Sandy passed along Clinton Forbe’s amusing preview of Windows Vista. The more of these I read, the more I come to the conclusion that Vista is a huge horsepower hog that misses doing the little things right and focuses on making stuff look pointlessly pretty. If you have a few applications open then expect to […]
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The more I use subversion, the more I find ways to make it do more heavy lifting for me. I’m not talking about the kind of subversion that gets you a one way ticket to gitmo, but the open source version control system. I use it to manage my websites here, to keep them updated
Soccer America looks at what impact, if any, Soccer United Marketing (S.U.M) has had on our domestic league. They’re very shrewd promoters, including clauses in contracts that teams coming over to play in friendlies, like Mexico or Manchester United, have to bring their first team regulars. It sounds like the impact on MSL is fairly
Now that we’re starting to get some benefits from maturing HTML, CSS, and Javascript implementations, via libraries like Prototype, Scriptaculous, Jquery, mootools, and so on, along come the vendors hawking their own proprietary re-invention of the same thing. Wheter its Adobe’s Flash/Apollo/Flex, Microsofts’s recently demo’d Silverlight, or Sun’s rumoured own re-imagining of it all. But
There are benefits to panels. Unlike server logs, which measure individual users by the number of times an unrecognized Internet protocol address visits a site, panels can tell companies more about the audience’s demographic composition. This is possible as panel members share such information as age, gender, and income level. Unlike using IP addresses, panels
I was already going to write about how disappointed I was with TurboTax this year. When preparing our returns, a few days ago, I submitted both my state and federal returns electronically. My federal return failed, because TurboTax would not recognize one of the codes we’d enterred, which we verified in the IRS’s own instructions
I had 3 classes in Norris hall: Statics, Dynamics, and Deformables (Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, iirc). All mechanical engineering courses that were requirements for all Engineering students. My freshman year, I lived across from West A.J. Later, in grad school, when I was a teaching assistant for Engineering Economics, I gave a final exam in
Sandy found this gem, which probably applies to more professions than just Web Designers. Working with clients such as these can be really trying, but what can you do to get through it? If Architects Had to Work Like Web Desginers… Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what
Tivo has partnered with One True Media to let users share video and photos with other Tivo users. This announcement from Tivo means we probably won’t view Youtube videos on your Tivo anytime soon (without a lot of hackery),. Can this work? How many people have broadband connected Tivos? While its free for the people
I spent 10 minutes looking for an extension to do this, then found that its, smartly, built into Firefox’s bookmark manager. I’m not sure what this mindset is called, Extension Dependance? Anyway, if you need to move bookmarks from one machine to the other in Firefox: From the Bookmarks menu, select Organize Bookmarks. Choose Export…