Archive for the 'General' Category



Heatwave

Ugh. It’s hot.

It’s not the hottest summer I’ve seen, but this heat has lasted for a long time. And I can’t really have the windows fully open for a nice draft; about two weeks ago April decided to jump out from an open window. I didn’t really expect her to try to jump from the [...]

Web Sites as Graphs

This is pretty cool — a Java applet that renders a HTML page as a graph, where each circle represents a HTML tag. The black one is the root HTML tag. I think the grey “dandelion” cluster is what I have in my <head> tag. All I’m missing is a tooltip on nodes so [...]

Spam of the Year

This spam to my Gmail account had me laughing out loud.

Subject: Ihre Domain www.gmail.com ist nicht bei Google gelistet!

It’s a German spammer trying to tell me that “my” domain, gmail.com, isn’t listed in Google!

So yeah, you stupid spammer dudes at Finke Marketing. Thanks for the chuckles.

Kestrel Outline

Wow, I got kinda serious here. Normally I’d just sit down and crank out some XHTML and CSS, but I decided to make an outline mockup in Photoshop for Kestrel. This image took about ten minutes to do; actually writing a basic CSS scaffold for this layout would have taken five minutes.

Kestrel will be a [...]

Flickr Album

Wherein the author posts pictures of cats.

A New Hope

Wherein the author attempts to create a new Wordpress theme.

Here’s a hot tip

Don’t fall down the stairs.

I think I broke two toes. Unhurt otherwise.

Snake? SNAAAKE!

Left: Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese in The Terminator.

Right: Solid Snake from Metal Gear.

Autism-R-Us

I am impressed with the comments and how active your site is. Some spam comment

Active? Ha! I’ve been anything but active around here lately. I keep trying to write more, but there’s not really much happening right now.

Things are finally starting to happen on the medical front. I’ve talked to a new doctor, and he [...]

Hey, Warren!

Stop doing that, Warren. It’s wide open for abuse, such as me making all your readers who read via your RSS feed see this.

What I’m talking about is publishing all your Technorati occurences and Flickr comments in your article feed. Reading your own stuff? I love it. That’s what I want. Reading what every boring [...]