Aaron Hilton at CellMap recently sent me a link to an outstanding lightweight javascript comments service that is almost too easy and simple to believe at first-glance. Provided on the JS-Kit web site, it requires all of two lines of code in order to function on anyone’s web site:
< **div class="js-kit-comments" permalink="">< **/div>
< **script src="http://js-kit.com/comments.js">< [...]
For the second time in as many years today, my oldest daughter Libby (not quite six years old) and I made the two-hour trek from Springfield to Shakopee, Minnesota to visit one of the Upper Midwest’s best (and only) amusement parks: Valleyfair. My wife Becky accompanied us this year…along with my sister and two nieces. [...]
Derek’s been drinking too much Diet Dr. Pepper again…as he really meant to type “RGBA color” instead of “BGRA color,” right?! Wrong. Well, RIGHT about me drinking too much Diet Dr. Pepper, but WRONG about the typo.
For the Apple iPhone, Apple decided to implement a non-standard PNG format that includes [...]
Okay folks, get comfortable and prepare to be presented with far more technical information than you probably care to know! When it comes to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) file format, all of the bits and bytes are organized into the following chunks of data:
I was in my office working last Friday evening around midnight, when all of the sudden my phone rang. Late night phone calls are NEVER good…and on the other end of the phone was my mom…who had an overly-friendly brown bat zooming around her living room. My mom recently moved into our small town to [...]
I didn’t want to write another posting about fantasy football so soon after posting a message on MyFantasyLeague.com several days ago. However, I received the following message from one of my league-mates tonight…and I couldn’t resist the opportunity:
“Draft last night- chaos. Trying to get onto the site tonight to declare keepers- impossible. [...]
I was doing some research tonight on Fresnel lenses for a pet science and eco-friendly idea I’ve been thinking about for the past few years, when I came across an interesting web site called Green Power Science. According to their web site: “Green Power Science is dedicated to the backyard scientist. Our belief is that [...]
I’ve been designing web pages since 1994…and in the 14 incredibly FAST years that have followed, I’ve come to discover one key thing about myself: I like it when stuff works…especially when stuff works WELL using as few moving-parts and/or resources as is humanly possible. Most of the web developers reading this blog could [...]
Okay, okay….not newsworthy in the world of image optimization! However, as I’ve eluded to in previous postings, I am a big supporter of Barack Obama in the 2008 United States Presidential election process, so this news is big to me. CNN, the Associated Press and MSNBC are all confirming the news, so I have [...]
Have I mentioned yet in this blog how I absolutely LOVE the [uwebd] listserv? I was cruising through several of the postings there today when somebody rolled-out a reference to the Chivas Regal Effect in relation to recruiting students and trying to figure out methods for making each institutional dollar stretch [...]
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