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Star Trek 2.0
Apparently G4 TV (formerly TechTV) is running a stop-animation pseudo-spoof ad campaign on Star Trek: The Original Series. As sacreligious as this might sound, seeing Spock dance…
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NEW SITE: www.myLifePlay.com
As most of you already know, I'm a web developer. Web developers are the people responsible for implimenting the designs of web designers, and hooking them to their "back-ends"…
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How to Buy a Computer
Many of you know that I used to build and sell computers while working for a former employer. The question "How do I Buy a Computer" was often asked of me (I even re-wrote much…
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Don't Buy CRAP
ZDNet published a video pointing out the shortcomings of Digital Rights Management (DRM). Instead of accepting the total control demanded by the MPAA and RIAA, ZDNet chief editor…
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Monitors: CRT versus LCD
ZDnet has put together a short video talking about the differences in CRT monitors and LCD monitors, specifically weighing the costs of each against their usable life. One…
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Of Goats and Milk
I was reading the blog of a friend-of-a-friend (again) and came across an entry about goat milk. I've got a thing for soaps — no, not the kind that you'll find at most grocery…
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Spring is the time for gardening
Spring has technically sprung, though you wouldn't know by looking outside: the snow just melted and there's more in the forecast. My wife and I began a tradition some years ago…
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Autistic Teen Scores Big in Basketball
My son has Asperger's Syndrome, a learning and behavioral disorder that is often mis-categorized as "a form of mild autism." Luckily my son is very high functioning compared to…
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MUSIC VIDEO: Take on Me
Article by Joe Levi: MUSIC VIDEO: Take on Me.
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MUSIC VIDEO: I Love You, Always, Forever
Dedicated to the woman that I love...
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JOB POSTING: Senior Web Developer
I got an emailthe other day regarding a company wanting to fill the position of Senior Web Developer. Because many of you reading are into web technologies, I am re-posting this…
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Depeche Mode + The Sims
Ever wondered what you'd get if you added two cups Depeche Mode, one cup of The Sims, and a pinch of streaming video? Go to TheSims2.ea.com to find out.
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Daily Humor: David Hasselhoff, Hooked on a Feeling
Yes, you read that right, it's David Hasselhoff himself, singing and dancing. That guy's got guts!
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Darby Gardner has a new site
My good buddy Darby Gardner has posted a new website. Darby and I go way back to the days of junior high school... Has it been that long? Anyhow... nostaligia aside, here's a…
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NEW SITE: www.PerformanceDesign.com
As most of you already know, I'm a web developer. Web developers are the people responsible for implimenting the designs of web designers, and hooking them to their "back-ends"…
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XHTML Forms
Via The Web Standards Group , XHTML has introduced some new and very cool tags for us to use with old, hum-drum web forms. Introducing label, fieldset, legend, and optgroup. Take…
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Political Humor
Let me preface this post by saying that I didn't vote for G.W. Bush (I voted for Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party), but I would have chosen Bush over... who was that…
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Happy Valentine's Day… Geek Style
Roses are #FF0000 Violets are #0000FF All my base Are belong to you
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From the Mouth's of Babes
My youngest son can speak almost as much Spanish as he can English! My son, Porter (19 months), likes watching cartoons with his older siblings. His older siblings (Michael, 6½…
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Microsoft antispyware (Defender) beta 2 now available
The program formerly know as "Microsoft Antispyware Beta" is now "Microsoft Defender Beta" and beta 2 is now available .
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How to use conditional formatting to shade every other row in Excel
Spreadsheets are great, but sometimes my eyes get lost in the seemingly endless mere s of data. Row shading can come in handy, but it's very tedious to apply formatting to every…
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Hide your Email Address in Web Pages
Putting a mailto: link on your website is the easieiest way for a web user to get ahold of you. It requires only a single click on a hyperlink on their part to open their email…
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Fontastic!
Looking for some fonts? Try TypeNow.Net. They've got a boatload of fonts that range from eligant, to whimsical, to downright looney.
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Updated to include old (1999) blog entries
I was browsing though some old web files and came across an old web log (in the days before 'blogs existed) from 1999. I've converted the majority of the entries (the relvant…
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Every Ant Tells a Story… and Google's Along for the Ride
Ants are cool. I think we can all agree on that. And that's what AntWeb.org is all about. Every ant tells a story. AntWeb provides tools for exploring the diversity and…
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Spelling Unimportant for Comprehension
Via my buddy Steve Kangas, I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde…
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Microsoft Shunning Internet Explorer for Mac
I was browsing around in a simple java web browser today and tried MSN's website. This browser doesn't understand styles, so it's not surprising that @import lines showed up at…
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Racisim?
CAUTION: This post may make you feel uncomfortable, it is not politically correct, it brings up race issues, and (hopefully) makes you think. If any of these things make you…
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Rock Climbing
You've seen people rock climb before, haven't you? They start out slow and methodical, inching their way up the seemingly flat surface of some insanely tall rock face. Finally…
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PNGs and Transparency
There are basically three types of images that can be used on the internet today: .gif .jpeg .png .GIFs are nice because they've been around forever, you can animate them (string…
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And the cow jumped over the moon
My son Michael (6) watched a few minutes of Apollo 13 with me yesterday. He was enthralled by the rocket launch sequence. I asked him some "critical thinking" questions (as I…
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Mio A701 Pocket PC Phone Edition with Built-in GPS
It's just about time for me to upgrade my Pocket PC (currently an HP iPAQ 4155) again. Around 2001 I had an HP Jornada 468; I looked into the future and predicted that "the next…
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Organic Photovoltaics Absorb From Near Infrared Frequencies
A research group has developed organic nanostructures photovoltaics that can absorb photons near the infrared frequency. Ewing, NJ | 4 January 2006 -- Global Photonic Energy…
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Windows XP WMF Vulnerability
Via Microsoft : If a user is logged on with administrative user rights (which is all of us, right?), an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete…
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Disposable Fountain Pen
Most people who know me would catagorize me as a technophile . I also have an affinity for fountain pens. Some might see that as a contradiction — bear with me. Credit for the…
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A Windows Powered Gas Pump?
Microsoft has got Windows for your desktop computer, Windows Media Center for your TV, (Windows) XBOX for your video games, Windows Server for your server, Windows Mobile for…
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Microsoft Hacking Microsoft?
Microsoft's websites have traditionally been very heavy on their use of tables for layout, something that CSS2 was designed to replace. Tables should be used for tabular data…
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Turning video cards upside down
Via xbit labs , Asus has stumbled upon an idea that has long been a question among computer system builders: why are GPU chips mounted upside down? Technically, the card is…
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Heath Briggs
Heath Briggs was a man not much older than I. Husband and father of five (with another on the way). I first met Heath when I began working for Totally Awesome Computers in…
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<abbr title=""> & <acronym title="">
I've become a fan of two html tags that go unused all too often. These tags a beautifully simple, rendered intuitively to the end-user, and serve a much needed function for noobs…
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Embedding Graphics in HTML
You've seen images on websites before, but what about images in the html code itself? No, I'm not talking about your typical <img src="(URI)" ... /> reference to an image, but…
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My Old Boss (SuperDell Buck Schanze) in the News
Are you keeping up with the crazy antics of my former employer, "Super" Dell Buck Schanze? If not, here are some links to recent news: Deseret News article KUTV Channel 2…
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Web Developer Tools
Sometimes Microsoft confuses me... As most of you know I've been a web developer for close to a decade now. I've seen the lay of the land change from flat HTML files…
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Landing Pages
One of the responsibilities of my new job is creating landing pages for specific items/categories to aid in "organic" search engine results. Here are the pages that I've created…
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Researching Recursion
While researching recursion today I came across this definition: Recursion n. See recursion See also: recursion Here's a much better, although much less funny, definition: In…
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A Change of Scenery
After more than four years of working for Totally Awesome Computers as a "Jack-of-all-trades" I have finally re-entered the web development world! For those of you who know me…
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JavaScript Frustration
I'm a web developer by hobby (and soon to be by profession, again), JavaScript is arguably the most common, easiest, and simplest "quick and dirty" way to make your web pages…
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Project "Vista Tablet": Part 3 of 3 (Software)
Windows Vista is the version of Windows to follow Windows XP. It's due out in 3Q 2006 and should be the biggest leap in "enhancements" since the jump from Windows 3.x to Windows…
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What's your IQ?
Via The Classic IQ Test, my IQ score is 122. "This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative…
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Car Commercial
It's just about Halloween, so here is a car commercial , just for you Halloweenies.