Dear 1and1, I frequently defend the quality of services that you provide. You have a lot of enemies out there, but my experience has been positive. Your management tools are very simple and intuitive, especially when compared to GoDaddy (I don’t know WHAT is going on with their admin tools, but they’re getting better.). Even [...]
Last night my wife informed me that her brake lights were stuck on. It had been a rainy day, so my biggest fear was that there was some sort of electrical short God-knows-where inside the car. This could be expensive. After some back-and-forth of tapping the brakes, turning on the car, turning the lights on [...]
If you don’t know, Big Buck Bunny is a free movie published under a Creative Commons license and created with the open source 3-D animation program Blender. Learn more at bigbuckbunny.org and you can watch a decent-res version right here: Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.
I have recently discovered a great blog by a designer that is smart and funny. Today I decided to Google his name and found a great article that he wrote for a list apart about being a good designer: Reading Design and at the bottom of that article his short bio states that he is [...]
I was recently installing Ubuntu on an old Dell for a friend. I don’t try to push Linux on people, but if they want something cheap on an old machine I just tell them what a new version of Windows costs. At that point they either go buy a new machine instead or ask me [...]
If you haven’t noticed, I’m doing something really stupid: I’m learning about WordPress Templates by way of making changes to my live site. It’s interesting how they built the Kubrick template. It’s probably very brilliant in its way of dealing with qualities of CSS. However, as an example to learn from, it has a lot [...]
I stumbled across this tonight on Current_. Thankfully, they have a sweet website with loads of content. Enjoy:
This glossary of Subversion commands is a work in progress. My primary interest in creating this is to help people like me, that are not formally educated in programming. The abstract concept of version control is not difficult to understand or appreciate, but I have found that learning to use version control applications like Subversion [...]
If you haven’t heard, Nine Inch Nails has a new instrumental album out that is being sold directly by the artist via the web: http://ghosts.nin.com I gladly downloaded the free sample tracks to check it out. I’m not quite sure if I’ll purchase more or not. The true test is how entertaining the songs are [...]
I am dabbling in software development with the GRAMPS (Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System) project. It is a genealogical database building program that is available for Linux. I got involved with the developer group after struggling to make my genealogy site look great. The markup techniques were outdated or wrong and nothing had [...]
