Canon EOS 10D I bought a camera. Oh Joy!

New poem, Phillipians 4:4-7

My Mom and Dad celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary today. Congrats Mom, Dad… And thanks for loving each other so much.

Form Should Follow Function It’s a problem that most people don’t think about enough. Fadware, that often too common piece of technology that is making some people very popular, is turning some applications and fields into very useful enterprises, and is pulling the wool over a lot of other peoples eyes. Its not one specific technology, its all technologies. I think the largest, or at least of one the largest problems in web design and web development is that people forget the ultimate goal, and that is to present the information in the best way possible. We seek the best,…

Happy Birthday to You!

Oil from Turkey Guts! Apparently you can turn just about anything into Oil. According to this story, turkey guts, machinery, plastics and just about anything else can be broken down safely and economically and turned into oil, minerals, and water. Eureka!

The Disparate Actions of Art and Artists In art, the artist is constantly questioning the way things are done, they way things are perceived, and the way reality presents itself to man. It isn’t that he doubts reality, or the validity of the traditional forms used to communicate, but it becomes increasingly more difficult to arrest the attention of the human mind in a world rich in expression. The artist thus must seek for new ways of saying things. For truly unique creations are captivating. The constant questioning is a way to break free of the traditional forms, a way…

In the Middle of the Afternoon Its the middle of the afternoon here where I work. On thursday the mood has not yet reached that point where people begin longing for the weekend. The hum of hundreds of computers spread throughout the large open area where my desk is located is soft and slightly relaxing. A network admin is talking to someone several cubes down, and smatterings of conversations occasionaly arrest my attention. Outside the sky is overcast. A slightly gray and damp atmousphere marked by a tinge of yellow as the light of the sun fights to get through…

Web Design Links: More NN4 compatible layouts can be found here at www.fu2k.org. More than just a few layouts, it explains how to make them, and gives you the basis for other types of layouts. A very nicely designed website, www.twothirty.com. They are a design and development firm, just like Marzhill Studios Inc. whose website is coming soon. And to top off the post, Javascript Libraries from Walter Zorn. Update: I found this site that catalogs css hacks. Very useful.

A japanese website, soksok.jp, (note: porn alert!), has been making waves on the net lately. Apparently, as best as I can tell from discussion on the net, its a proxy service that when requested, grabs your page and strips it of graphics and css, then repackages it for DoCoMo cell phones. Interesting. You can block it IP if you wish. Here is the metafilter discussion on it. You can also use the robots.txt file to block the user agent. You can check your logs to see what that is. (hat tip: Nels Lindahl)

Ironically… In this article, Pepsi’s new sweepstakes is explained. One Billion dollars of potential prize money could be given away to some very lucky individual. That in itself isn’t the ironic thing. *grin* As with most sweepstakes, Pepsi is paying a company, Berkshire Hathaway to underwrite the sweepstakes and pay out the billion if somebody wins. That isn’t the Ironic thing either. What’s ironic is that Berkshire Hathaway is the largest owner of stock in Coca-Cola. *grin* Coca-Cola is indirectly funding Pepsi Co’s billion dollar sweepstakes… isn’t that nice? (thanks: Anil Dash)

CSS can coexist with Netscape 4! Recently, a reader posted www.realworldstyle.com on my comments section, informing me that you can do 3 column layouts, with footers, in XHTML and CSS that work with NN4. I was skeptical. But indeed, it works. I don’t understand exactly why, but this is a God send to those who have to make things compatible in NN4. (thanks: Roger Waggoner)

Free Books! The Largest Collection of Children’s Books online… they think. The library isn’t very large yet, but it is growing. The books are downloaded as jpeg files. Remarkable. Indeed.

A brief aside… Why is it that when you are truly busy, it seems as though there is often little to say? So bear with me as I try to sum up what has been going on recently. The past few weeks have been a bit hectic… productive, but hectic. Oh, and incidentally, coming down with a cold while you have many many things to do is not recommended at all. If you are curious what has been going on to keep me so busy these past few weeks, allow me to list a few of them. I administrate my…

Image Meta Data in the Image! If you do any kind of photo or graphic management you have probably wished for the ability to store meta data about your images directly in the image file. Trying to maintain metadata in a normal db is possible but problematic as the images may get renamed or moved, thus loosing the meta data you had stored. If not tracked carefully, such a db can easily become useless. Storing meta information such as date and time the photo was taken, shutter speeds, aperature, user comments and so on is nice because that data travels…

More links of note: A 3 column header and footer css layout. I’ve tried to create one of those before and failed… So nice to have that footer. Web Graphics is about stuff…

Two more great links to take a look at: VentureBlog.com talks about getting funding to implement your ideas. You may not in the business as such, but I would wager to say that many of the idea’s and principles work for business development as well. And Elegant Hack, a blog focused Information Architecture, a field still young and often needed. So much data and so much mess out there still.

Photographing With New Eyes, a list of tips and lessons learned by Andrew Hudson while writing and photographing Photosecrets. The main site, Photosecrets has a list of tips for beginners, intermediates, and advanced photographers.

JavaScript: The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language by Douglas Crawford. Good reading, cool links at the bottom. I’ve never considered Javascipt as an object oriented language perse. Its more powerful than most people think, as indicated in the above article. (link via www.glish.com)

While discovering the joys of bash and how to program the shell’s prompt I ran across Changing your bash prompt and Programming the bash prompt. A broad and useful manual for the bash shell can also be found here.