Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Stylizer: possibly the coolest CSS editor, ever
I’m not a designer. I’d love to be. I wish that I had the talent to make something truly beautiful. Given that I am a hack, I need the best, easiest tools available to make a design that won’t sear the eyes. CSS is not hard. It follows logical rules of inheritance and it makes [...]
From the “why didn’t I think of that?” department: Road ID
I don’t think too much about mortality. I think about it more now that I’m married with child but still manage to keep it at bay. But I recognize that were I, say, 10 miles out on a long run along the Tobacco Trail and I keeled over with a heart attack or somehow got [...]
Out with the Shuffle, in with the Clip+
My rather short-lived 2nd gen iPod Shuffle won’t sync anymore. It won’t even attach over USB. It attaches, detaches, attaches, detaches, etc, forever. It’s not the cable since I can unplug mine and plug in Cat’s just fine. It’s started doing this recently and I was able to recover it previously after futzing with a [...]
Green screen mind blower
This is a true mind blower. Check out this reel of green screen usage from primetime shows. Even seemingly simple shots are complex compositions. (from how it happened from Kottke)
What a single hour on the treadmill taught me
I need a nook. I need one. This is not merely whim or technolust, this is dire need. Or technolust. Seriously, how does one survive extended stays on dreadmills without an ebook reader? I did an hour. That’s chump change. Were it not for the Y being closed due to the Snowpocalypse this weekend I [...]
Twitter: I caved
Alright, I caved. I’m twittering now, too. Though often maligned I actually do somewhat get the point of it. While some seemingly treat it as a diary of location and bodily function, I see it as an outlet for quick thoughts that don’t fit well in my ordinary Asides and that don’t merit a full-blown [...]
Ghost in the machine
For the most part computers are predictable machines. They do more or less what we ask of them. Sometimes they may do things we’d prefer they didn’t but it’s usually for predictable reasons. My work laptop, on the other hand, is haunted. I know that seems unlikely but it is. See, it plays a sound [...]
Blingo wins and fails in the same breath
I recently talked about how I had won cash money with Blingo. One of my buddies took me up on the offer to become a Blingo friend at that point and he wrote me today telling me how he had won a movie ticket meaning that I also won one. Yeehaw, win-win! Then I went [...]
