Entries Tagged as 'The Internet'

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Is this a good or bad thing?

I was washing my hands just now and something struck me.
How does a submarine achieve negative buoyancy by flooding tanks with water when it is still filled with oxygen?
If this had struck me 20 years ago, I would have probably tried to reason it out. Given how little I know about submarines, I may have […]

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

What I want from data portability

I want to rate my books, music and DVDs once on netflix, Amazon, Facebook visual bookshelf, iTunes and I want the data shared across all of them.
However, I want complete control over how each of them uses every bit of that data and I want to approve who gets to see it, even among my […]

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

true cross-fading images in flex

A lot of the “cross fades” that I’ve seen for flex were really fade-out/fade-in transitions, so I decided to show a “real” crossfade example. The trick is to use absolute positioning so that the image objects are on top of each other.

[download the mxml file]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008

I think that I’m finally figuring out this social web stuff for myself

I’m a Generation X geek. This means that all this web 2.0 and social networking stuff doesn’t scare me (I was on BBSes before the internet y’all), but it also means that I’m not into giving away all my creative output for free or sharing personal details with strangers. It also means that I’m experienced […]

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

enough with the silos and security-holes already

Hey social networking sites, can we just cede the video sharing to youtube, the audio sharing to myspace, the photo sharing to flickr and the rest to whatever. At least, can you all stop forbidding embedding of each others’ content? It is such a pain in the ass to have to upload each video or […]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

netflix offers unlimited streaming

whoop-de-doo!
Hopefully, they’ll offer a mac client someday so I can actually take advantage of it…
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Network Solutions is evil

I’ve been a network solutions customer for many many years now. Partially, because when I first registered my domains, they were the only registrar. Later, I would occasionally register a new domain with them if it was important. I never trusted GoDaddy or some of the other discount registrars, NetSol seemed to be more professional […]

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Dear Radiohead and the rest of the music industry

I applaud you, Radiohead, for doing such a forward-thinking experiment with your distribution for InRainbows. However, you’ve unfortunately made sure that any data you receive from this experiment will be useless. Why? Well, because your website and ordering process are HORRIBLE. I had so many problems getting your website to work that I almost gave […]

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Interesting article on Ruby vs PHP

I’ve been doing PHP for a little while, but I’m always hearing about how much better Ruby on Rails is. Luckily, Derek from CDBaby decided to rewrite his site with Rails and actually decided that PHP was better for some stuff.
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - OReilly Ruby
I […]

Friday, August 24th, 2007

f’ing A! CSS Positioning sux

Every time I try to use CSS for positioning, I hit the wall. Gradually, this wall has been getting further and further, but I still always hit it. First I couldn’t get things to lay out correctly at all. Now I can get them to lay out, but only on three of the four browsers […]

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