Ames and I are still down in our hometown of Vero Beach, Florida after spending Christmas with family. Yesterday I had the opportunity to go fishing about 20 miles offshore with my father-in-law. Here’s some of what we caught: Tomorrow we’re going to start our treck back toward home in…
While Ames and I were just getting back from our San Francisco trip, I missed Andy Clarke’s preview post about his new book, Transcending CSS. In fact, it wasn’t until I saw a snippet about it on Digital Web that I even knew that he had even written a book….
OK, so I’m working on a MySQL database of tour reservations that has time values stored as strings in an AM/PM time format. The hour portion of the value does not contain a leading 0, so “6:00 AM”, “11:35 AM”, “4:45 PM” are all possible values. I’ve written a query…
Last weekend, Ames and I took a road trip down to Ikea in Atlanta to look at bedroom furniture and do some shopping. While we didn’t come back with any furniture, we did get a few Christmas presents and decor items for the house. While Ikea’s prices are great, their…
It wasn’t very long ago that I was a PC-only kinda guy. While I wasn’t particularly fond of Windows and never really got into Linux, there were certain PC-only software packages that just clicked with me and Winamp was one of them. Even now, in it’s sold-out, useless-feature bloated state,…
Anyone who’s been doing webdesign since the days of nested tables and spacer gifs should be familiar with the classic bold (<b>) and italic (<i>) HTML tags. In the last 5-6 years though, those oh-so-easy-to-remember tags have silently slipped into oblivion. I know that I personally have been using <strong>…
Nacho Libre was, by far, my favorite movie release of the summer. Take what you may from that statement, but my wife and I really loved the movie. I knew that it was coming out on DVD yesterday, but didn’t plan to go out and buy it…until my sister-in-law sent…
About a week and a half ago, my friend Jeremy Darty posted the first episode of his new podcast – Step ‘n Side. Back in the day Jeremy and I were the two renegade PC users in the graphic design program at UCF. As fate would have it, we both…
(If you have a first generation G5 iMac that is giving your problems, feel free to skip the story and get to the point.) As it turns out, those issues I was having with my G5 iMac a few months ago may not have been RAM related at all. A…