Type Tester

July 8th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Testing screen fonts across various browsers and platforms can be a headache. What headline goes with the text, how small can you make the legal copy … you know the drill. Typetester presents you three columns in which you can pick fonts off of a menu, the adjust size and leading, text and background colors, [...]

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Beautiful Evidence

June 29th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Books, Tech Stuff |
A Review of the New Volume by Edward Tufte

Hot off the presses for 2006, the guru of intelligent presentation has issued his fourth full-size volume.

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Joomla, Son of Mambo

June 27th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Has anyone here used this package? (sounds of crickets chirping.) The “interesting” thing (interesting used here in the sense your doctor might use it. “Hm, this is interesting”) about this is that there’s virtually no documentation. Sure there are discussion forums, FAQ pages, tutorials… but getting down to the nitty gritty of “what is this, [...]

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A New Book Arrives…

June 23rd, 2006 | 0 Comments | Books, Tech Stuff |

…and the house is buzzing with excitement. Brandy, meet Max; Max, Brandy.
Brandy with the new book

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Hacking A Newsfeed

June 21st, 2006 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Debug like it’s 1999. In which the author takes a vintage javascript newsfeed (vintage but still published) and converts most of it over into a document object model version. Not like you’d want to do this when there’s an XML version available…

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Delenda Est Junky Hardware

June 19th, 2006 | 6 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Was this wrong? I pulled this wireless/ethernet bridge out of the closet after a few months, and after struggling with it on three different computers, I still couldn’t get it to do anything. The configuration screen wouldn’t come up on at default IP address, it didn’t show up on the network, and the reset button [...]

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Blog Security

June 12th, 2006 | 1 Comment | Tech Stuff |

I’ve got this page set up so that any first posts from users have to be approved before they go live. This may or may not be a good idea, and may or may not be even necessary…but once you’ve been approved by me you’re set for life.

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