Zoo photos
Sure, I’ve taken a few zoo photos before, but those suck compared to these — flamingo & peacock.
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, …
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!
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 …
TV Catch Phrases That Weren’t
McSweeney’s is one of those humor sites that is regularly linked to by several sites I visit. The problem is, I never find the site funny. But for some reason, every time it’s recommended, I check it out in the off chance that something might actually make me laugh. Today my persistence paid off: McSweeney’s …