Archive for April, 2005
Oh how I love thee, Lilina
Lilina is (yet another) news aggregator. The thing I like about this one is that it’s a PHP-based solution that sits in your hosting space. So, now you don’t have to be hostage to some third-party website that may or may not be down and may or may not serve you ads with your RSS. [...]
Guess-The-Google
Guess-The-Google. Addictively cool idea.
Live Comment Previews – Now with Markdown previewing
As much as I enjoy my live comment previews and have worked to get every possible thing previewed for my commenters, one thing has bugged me: now that Markdown is available for commenters on my site, I really wanted their Markdown to be previewed as well. Now it is. With some fancy Javascript dancing by [...]
Undesirable phrase of the day
“Billowing clouds of smoke.” I’m not a grease monkey. I have fond, distinct memories of my childhood where in general my Dad was under one of our cars doing something almost every weekend. I knew the term “bleeding the brakes” before I knew anything about girls or computers. That’s not to say I knew what [...]
Live Gravatar Preview
This method of adding live Gravatar previews is so elegant and simple I couldn’t believe it. I really thought I’d have to perform some sleight-of-hand with XMLHttpRequest in order to get it working, but this is a purely Javascript-based solution that is perfectly functional. To see it in action, you’ll have to go to the [...]
The most painful sportscast in recorded history
You may be having a bad day. This kid is having a worse one.
When we start frisking penguins…
When we start frisking penguins the terrorists have won.
It’s possible my daughter is a ham
Possible, but not confirmed by independent sources. I mentioned before that Julia has turned into an affectionate baby and I can only confirm that it’s apparently here to stay for a while. She’s generally been somewhat of a typical Daddy’s girl which has been hard on both of us: she would actively spurn Cat and [...]
