The day the music died Don McLean sang about this day, for years we thought he was referring to the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper. We never imagined it would have been our music players that died. For those of you who don’t know yet, Microsoft’s 30GB Zune’s [...]
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Dec 31
CSS Cheat Sheet
Interactive CSS Box Model Understanding the CSS Box Model is one of the most fundamentally important aspects of CSS-based layouts, but to some it’s a complex concept to comprehend, while to the more experienced it’s a complicated beast to master. Douglas has put together a VERY good visual representation of the CSS Box Model that [...]
Dec 30
Pandora Releases Vista Sidebar Gadget — finally
Some people are trying to tell me that Pandora has had a Vista Sidebar Gagdet for some time now, to them I say, hey, it’s new to me! And because I’m such a nice guy, I figured you’d want to know about it, too! So here you go! http://www.pandora.com/on-windowsgadget Tweet
Dec 29
Interesting links o’ the week
“So you want to hire a ‘computer person.’” A manager’s guide We all know that “computer people” are a little bit different than “ordinary folk.” Sometimes self-pronounced nerds, geeks, or hackers, these people seem to know more about “stuff” than you thought possible. But they’re a strange group. How do you deal with a “hacker?” [...]
Dec 29
Netzero Ad Preys on the Stupid
Would you like to save $300/year? In this economy, who wouldn’t? Over the Holiday weekend I saw a rather novel Netzero advertisement: Switch from your broadband internet provider to Netzero Dialup and save $300/year. I’m paying approximately $53/month for my broadband internet through Comcast, and the appeal of dropping that down to $10/month with another [...]
