31
Dec
2008
Thankfully my life is full of less Microsoft products than it used to be.
I once thought about picking up a MS Zune mp3 player on woot, thankfully I talked myself out of it: http://gizmodo.com/5121311/reports-30gb-zunes-failing-everywhere-all-at-once
To summarize: If you have a 30GB Zune this morning, it doesn’t work anymore.
Tags: Zune
Categories: Pitiful, Technology
23
Dec
2008
I wear contacts daily and glasses in the evening when my eyes wear out for the day. I can see without them but I wouldn’t say it would be the safest for me to operate a vehicle or similar machinery sans lenses.
For some reason, as a kid (and as an adult, I suppose) one of the things that seemed to always choke me up a little was when I saw a young person whose glasses got broken or were “mended” somehow. Not exactly sure why, but I assume it had to do something with knowing how much glasses cost and the fact that I didn’t grow up in the most affluent of areas.
Seeing clearly is one of the things we take completely for granted and one of the reasons I stretch the life of my contacts far longer than the doctor/box recommend. I am fortunate enough to be in the position to afford to see things as they are but know worldwide there are many who cannot claim the same. Which is why the following article caught my attention this afternoon: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: glasses, invention
Categories: Awesomeness, Design, Soap, Technology
19
Dec
2008
If you’ve ever contemplated writing music with the ding’s from your microwave, you can now stop. It has been done and its more than likely better than anything you or I could produce.
from AKQA (via Blankenship)
Tags: christmas, microwave
Categories: Awesomeness, Technology
29
Nov
2008
I noticed this evening that my feed wasn’t updating for the site. Of course it bugged me. Took me a couple of hours of code searching, bug hunting and racking my brain to think what changes I had made in the last 48 hours to finally figure out that a small piece of code I had implemented a day or two ago was messing everything up.
The ironic part is that it was code to make my feed a little better. I had implemented a little code to put a delay on my feed by 3 minutes from the time of publishing since I have a tendency to poorly proofread until after I hit the publish button. Go figure. So, back to the old and my apologies for any typos in advance.
One other note, it isn’t perfect but I have implemented some fixes for IE6 users. It’s pretty normal that some things don’t line up but most everything is at least close. The sidebar at least sits on the side now and not at the bottom. I still have about 10% of my visitors using IE6. I don’t love any of you less personally, just technologically. I promise you’d feel better if you browsed better.
I can only think of two reasons why are still using IE6.
Sorry, I can only help with #2. Go to Help -> About Internet Explorer. Now go download the ‘fox.
Tags: Design, Technology
Categories: Design, Technology
24
Nov
2008
As my wife acutely pointed out, “he even tweets in Ebonics.”
Only a week or so into it, he’s already amassed almost 11,000 followers: http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ
I love the internet.
Tags: Technology
Categories: Technology
