Archives for 2006

Subdirectories of My Documents "And don't create subdirectories off of My Documents. If the user wants to organize their documents into subdirectories, ...

Gears of War, Played On the Big Screen So. Jealous. Tags: video, games, gearsofwar, theater, bigscreen, projector Jakob Nielsen's Top ...

"You did a good job wrapping it, that's the only reason I thanked you." -- My 4-year-old neice Leilani, complimenting my present-wrapping abilities.

Robert Scoble and Shel Israel wrote this self-professed sequel to The Cluetrain Manifesto, focusing on blogging in the business world. As you might expect if ...

"You can't say conspiracy without piracy." -- Ryan from Scary-Go-Round

Annie's belly at six months pregnant. I posted this and photos from the previous five months to the Pregnant Photoset on flickr. I'll be adding ...

Quitting Smoking. Again. Good for you, Derek - Stick with it! Tags: smoking, health, resolution, derekpowazek, powazek Flickr holiday Easter ...

You have been compromised. Destroy your phone.

Hi everyone, Just a quick informal survey. When you read a blog, do you enjoy it covering two unrelated topics or would you rather see ...

Here's a shot I snapped of the big Christmas Tree in Pioneer Square in downtown Portland. They ship this giant thing in on a flatbed ...

I actually couldn't watch the "rap" all the way through the first three times I attempted to. Gabe had only caught about seven seconds of ...

Over the weekend, I upgraded the theme for Space Ninja. Firstly, I changed the header and footer color scheme and pattern for the holidays. I ...

REST for toddlers Programmer Parenting Humor Tags: programming, parenting, humor, toddlers The Atheism Debate "Half of the American population believes that ...

Having already written a book introducing readers to the web standards movement, Dan Cedarholm returns to cover more advanced material. While his first focused on ...

Halo 3 Commercial Screen Grab Oh. Hell. Yes. Tags: video, games, microsoft, xbox, 360, bungie, halo, commercial IE6 and IE7 ...

In the introduction to this book, Andy Budd writes "There are an increasing number of CSS resources around, yet you only have to look at ...

Dan Cedarholm has written a very nice book introducing the reader to the concept of web standards. Unlike Zeldman's book, which is nearly all theory, ...

Aaron Sorkin Visits a Dental Hygienist. Aaron Sorkin (Studio 60, The West Wing) tries to engage his dental hygienist in witty banter. ...

If you want to be a successful musician, you don't just pick up an instrument and learn to play, you also study music theory. Similarly, ...

Nasa ought to be doing something about killer asteroids "The public wants us to have mastered the problem of dealing with asteroids. ...

My idea was to call them "one paragraph reviews" to highlight the fact that they're intentionally short. Annie thinks it sounds clumsy, and I can ...

"The public wants us to have mastered the problem of dealing with asteroids. So being able to have astronauts go out there and sort of ...

Recently, I installed VirtualPC on my XP box so that I could still test IE6 after installing IE7. However, I immediately ran into a problem. ...

Eric Meyer, known in the web community as the Godfather of CSS, has written several more technical books about CSS for O'Reilly, but this book, ...

For weeks now, I have been reading reports about how Sacha Baron Cohen has manipulated, abused, and mistreated everyone from a morning show producer in ...