Category Archives: Tech
African Or European Swallows?
I’m thinking they must be African swallows.
Sugar Scrub
I am reading Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS, and in it he encourages looking for Web design inspiration in places other than the Web: cereal boxes, newspapers, magazines, buildings, to name a few. (This is something I’ve done for some time … Continue reading
Reason #10,754 To Execrate Internet Explorer 6
Ever seen this pop up in Internet Explorer 6 (or 7)? This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items? You spend hours combing through server-side source, hours more combing through client-side source, … Continue reading
URI Decomposer
At work, we build our client websites upon a framework uses a lot of GET parameters. It makes for some URIs that average, oh, about three feet in length. Examining some of those monsters can make your eyes cross if you ever need to … Continue reading
Audacity Crudity
I’m starting to do some rudimentary audio editing on the Mac. Not impressed with Audacity version 1.2.5 for the Mac. The most glaring oddity is when exporting a file. As I type the file name, Audacity starts playing the audio. … Continue reading
Don’t Let A Spec Pick Your Button Type
Ever need to create a <button> of type button when you’re doing a little DOM scripting? Easy enough, right? It should go something like this: var okButton = document.createElement(‘button’); okButton.type = ‘button’; Nevertheless when you run this code in IE6, … Continue reading
It’s Good To Be Back
What have I been doing, lo, these many months to keep me away from the blog? Two new redesigned websites. Allow me to elaborate. Pepper Road Church of Christ I worship with the Pepper Road church of Christ in Athens, … Continue reading
Evolution Vacillation
I have to thank my buddy Kevan Moore for sparking this thought. We were at the Atlanta Zoo. (By the way, seeing a real, live panda in person is even cooler than you think it would be. But I digress.) While … Continue reading