I always wanted my name painted on the office door.
Xyle Scope is pretty much everything I’ve ever wanted in a CSS app. Minus the little feature requests I’ve now already asked for. :) A great tool for examination and troubleshooting, learning, and live editing and correcting. Exporting reformatted style sheets is sweet. I will finally be cracking open my legendarily tight wallet and ponying up [...]
Child number five, at 22 months, has hit that stage where he can, for extended perods of time, be entertained by pointing to things and saying “What’s this?” Over and over and over. :)
Somehow, between WebSTAR, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, and Safari, I got locked out of this blog. It wouldn’t take my password. I couldn’t get in even through a “back door”. Ugh! Well, it’s fixed. And I’m being more vigilant to see if I can discover what happened.
St. Paul, Minnesota has just adopted a smoking ban. I know that’s not terribly uncommon anymore, but it sure seems cowardly. Cowardly because the folks pushing these initiatives won’t do what should plainly be the Right Thing (from their perspective) and outlaw tobacco. Of course, they would reply that Big Tobacco is too powerful; big money [...]
German scientists have discovered a new source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in its impact on climate change. The culprits are plants. From here. It makes me think we should maybe just slow down and keep improving our data before we go making any [...]
Today local talk radio host Joe Soucheray got his hair cut by a friend of ours, Veronica. He discussed it on-air. Here is the mp3. Here’s the wav file, for those not in this century. If you have trouble with the mp3 link: Mac users, control-click and choose “Open in iTunes” PC users, right-click and choose “Save to Disk” Note to [...]
I had to get this “out there”. Everyone figures on seeing an Intel-based machine - maybe a laptop. And a more media-center-ish Mac. I’m throwing a Bluetooth-enable iPod in the mix, too. Seems like a no-brainer. UPDATE: Shows what I know. :) Grrr. Where is the Media Mac?! Well, anyway, check out the newest if you’re interested. [...]
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
As much as I like to play with technology, I often feel like I belong to a different era. I’m sure that’s in part because I only have a limited and overly positive view of times past, but I think there’s something else to it, too. A few days ago, I went to work with one [...]
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.