Portfolio updates
A couple additions to the Portfolio section: Turtle Soup: MySQL and PHP development for this teen-based cooking site Racks For All: some quick design help to improve the home page and main products page
Typography humor
Typography joke for the day (from here): Comic Sans walks into a bar and asks for a beer. Says the bartender: “Sorry, we don’t serve your type here.” I think that joke is up there with the photo of someone writing “Watch your kerning” next to graffiti in a design school’s bathroom. But then again, …
Museum of bad album covers
Well, this is some good fun: the museum of bad album covers. There are some I’ve seen before — The Many Facets of Roger, Man-O-War, and of course Devastatin’ Dave the Turntable Slave. But there are plenty more. Browse them all — or, if you’re in a hurry, just check out the top (bottom?) 10.
Christian spam
I don’t know if I’m the only one seeing this, but the new spam on the block is, oddly enough, Christian-related. Glancing at my spam folder — which is caught and moved from my inbox by SpamSieve — I see several messages for Christian dating services, which I can sort of understand. But “Refinance with …
Website updates
Just a quick rundown on some updates to websites I’m involved with: ToBits: site I designed and helped develop for a business that converts CDs and videotapes to digital format eWire: Brian contributed a bunch of new photos and articles from several flatland jams he went to in 2004 Barbara Peavey: new original oils and …
sIFR
Just to try it out, I implemented sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) for titles on iPod411.com. What this does is replace plain HTML text with a small Flash control, so text is displayed in the font I want (Futura Book, in this case) and appears smooth (even if you don’t have your font smoothing feature …
New from Apple…
Fun new stuff from Apple: iPod shuffle, Mac Mini, an updated iLife suite, and iWork. I can’t wait to see for myself how much easier Apple’s word processor, Pages, is compared to Microsoft Word!
World Series Winter NESN
Happy new year! You Sox fans out there can relive World Series games from ’75, ’86 and ’04 (see? it eventually has a happy ending…) as NESN is replaying the games this and next month — here’s the schedule. Especially worth noting is last year’s (and I mean 2004) ALCS series against the Yankees. Fire …
It’s a Wonderful Life in 30 seconds (and re-enacted by bunnies)
People are sometimes surprised to learn that I’ve never seen It’s a Wonderful Life. Actually, since I’ve caught different parts of it over the years while flipping channels, I probably have seen it, just not all at once in a single sitting. Well, now I don’t have to, now that I’ve seen It’s a Wonderful …
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TiVo tips
Whenever we lose power, I have to redo the following TiVo tricks. So I’m putting them here not only for your possible benefit, but to make it easier for me to find these later… Tip #1: 30-second commercial skipTiVo doesn’t come with a skip commercial feature installed, but you can unlock it: 1. Play a …