August 2010
17 posts
Overlapping And ZIndex - CSS Discuss →
There seems to be some confusion about how to get one element to appear on top of another. Do you add z-index: 1 or z-index: 1000? Why do some items overlap others, no matter how high the z-index…
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: The Emerging... →
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That may have important implications for management techniques that ask workers to change their own patterns of work, says Horton. “For example, it may be difficult to get…
Anyone else very confused about passing a string to jQuery.fn.index()? http://bit.ly/9ZqOKu
I’m using http://push.ly/ and http://notifo.com/ to get real-time mentions and tweets pushed to my phone. Check it out! #pushly
The Brainy Gamer: Portal on the booklist →
This year, for the first time, a video game will appear on the syllabus of a course required for all students at Wabash College, where I teach. For me - and for a traditional liberal arts college…
Oh my. I was just iced by my own web application. I’ve got an interesting intersection of geek/bro co-workers.
Those are the games a goalie lives for. 2x big power dive saves and 2x PK saves. All on the line in the playoffs :D
DataURLMaker →
Tool to covert images files into a base64 encoding suitable for embedded data uris.
html5-boilerplate →
“This is a set of files that a front-end developer can use to get started on a website.”
Lots of useful subtleties included in the code. Probably a good idea to browser through everyone and a while…
IE 6 slowing down IE 8 « Webforscher's Blog →
A fix to an awkward IE 8 conditional comments bug.
Today’s extra-funky from @allstarsandwich was fantastic. Tex Mex bison meatloaf with cheddar, bacon, fried onions on grilled sourdough. Yum!
Learning that when you give someone a task you need to write it down. Otherwise they (and you) will inevitably forget. Joys of delegation :/
Hrm. Chrome loses bold styling with multiple text-shadows. http://twitpic.com/2bki41
Research shows what you say about others says a... →
How positively you see others is linked to how happy, kind-hearted and emotionally stable you are, according to new research by a Wake Forest University psychology professor. “Your perceptions of…
Fractional px: $(‘*’).map(function() { var r=this.getClientRects()[0], h=r && r.height; if (r && Math.floor(h) != h) { return [this, h] } })
'Tilt to Live' Update Adds New Power-Up... →
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+1. I’ve been totally addicted to this game for the past month. Must. Get. Higher. Score.
One Man Left has been hard at work improving Tilt to Live [$2.99] since its…
July 2010
17 posts
A Real Web Design Application | Jason Santa Maria →
The framework for what a page is has changed considerably even in the past few years, though our applications for designing those frameworks are still stuck in the web of yore, and largely dictated…
“Enough of this bullshit. I’m gonna go get hammered with Papyrus.” - Comic Sans http://bit.ly/9Te4ZQ
GameSpy: Rumor: Microsoft Planned Xbox Live, PC... →
Sood writes: “I’ve heard from reliable sources that during the development they brought together the best console gamers to play mediocre PC gamers at the same game… and guess what happened? They…
If only there was a way to share constants between Sass and coffeescript … then the circle of higher level web languages would be complete
WTF Somerville. Convenience fee to pay a parking ticket online? What do you think you are ticketmaster? and ps don’t have IDs with Os and 0s
Time time for people to get $16 from Comcast. Makes me wonder how many people can claim both p2p and Lotus Notes usage? http://bit.ly/aaT5ve
The midnight ride of Paul revere… http://yfrog.com/g0w41j
New in hg 1.6 “bookmarks: add support for pushing and pulling bookmarks” http://bit.ly/STAng Finally, git-like branches in mercurial?
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June 2010
7 posts
Bacon maple donut! http://yfrog.com/1n6taj
I understand southern charm, but Charlotte airport, I’d rather not have to deal with people in the bathroom that expect tips.
SNA Projects Blog : Beating Binary Search →
Adding “educated guesses” to binary search does seem pretty obvious. Kinda surprised I haven’t heard of it before. But the author is probably right, lg lg n is probably not too much better than lg n…
Ahh AckMate, you’re the Textmate search plugin I’ve been looking for.
Peanut butter Oreos sounds like a good idea, right? But they are suprisingly bad. Sometimes the universe just likes to ‘eff with us.
Apple Revises Mobile Ad Policy; Bars AdMob →
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@8steve8 looks like Apple is specifically disallowing AdMob (Google) ads in iphone apps
The gist of the updated policy: third-party in-app ad networks are OK, except for Google.
Unix Toolbox →
A great resource and listing of various command line commands.
May 2010
2 posts
Lost-a-thon over. Was quite a run. Well worth it.
Now that’s a logging system I can understand: http://bit.ly/95YSoG
March 2010
1 post
Digging into the PAX east schedule. Considering jumping into one of the Magic intro tourneys… 13 years of rust isn’t too bad, right? :)
February 2010
7 posts
Arg. The first time I try to work from home in weeks and both of the ways I can VPN in are failing.
Final Fantasy I & II on the iphone, score! I hope the trend continues so I can relive my favorite childhood games… pretty please Blizzard?
Giving Up On Patents →
Not so many years ago, even as I was filled with
fear and loathing of
the hideous misconduct of the US Patent & Trademark Office, I retained
some respect for the notion of patents. I even wrote…
I highly recommend Legacy of Light, presented by the @LyricStageCo in Boston. I’m normally not a play fan, but this was fun and hilarious!
Joined @failings so my friends can anonymously tell me what they don’t like about me! http://failin.gs/profile/timmfin … bring it on!
Quite impressed by http://glyde.com (Netflix model for trading/resale). We’ll see if my old copy of Madden 07 wii actually sells.