Monthly Archives: November 2007

Making a website? Choose a good color scheme!

Updated!!! I’ll keep updating this page as I find more tools since this seems to be one of the more popular pages on this blog. Thanks, Jason One thing programmers don’t generally know is good design techniques. You can usually … Continue reading

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LED christmas lights

Christmas lights are definitely not very eco-friendly in their usual form. I do love them though and this year I started the move to the LED variety. Maybe those aren’t even eco-friendly but they are a damn sight better than … Continue reading

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CentOS 5 graphic login screen bug…and a fix

I’m being forced to run CentOS 5 at my new job and there is a bug in the graphic boot screen where once the boot process is complete instead of getting the graphic login screen you get dumped back to … Continue reading

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The MST3K ship sails again…now called Cinematic Titanic

If you’re a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and have been living under a rock the original cast of MST3K is doing a new thing. Same idea, same people, different title. Cinematic Titanic. Check it out.

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Nice copy of Yahoo there AOL.com….

I love using AOL’s radio website. The player has a fantastic lineup of channels to listen to and the sound quality is wonderful. I never look at the AOL.com site for the most part. Until tonight. The only thing I … Continue reading

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“Learnings” is not a word!!!!

I keep coming across people using “learnings” as a word in documents. Here is an example (scroll down to the bottom and you’ll spot it). Just a note for the incompetent: “learnings” is not a word. Go look it up … Continue reading

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The family sustainability "index"

One of the things I wanted to do with this blog, that I really haven’t done to much yet, is document the things my family is doing to become more sustainable and less of a burden on the planet. Up … Continue reading

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“Mac fans are like Maoists”

Jeffrey Zeldman really does have a wonderful way with words. Check out his recent iPhone experience.

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Vista explorer bug madness…and a fix

I’ve been having an issue for the last several days where I have not been able to multi-select files in Explorer in Vista. Keyboard shortcuts didn’t work either nor did the Select All menu option (grayed out). It would appear … Continue reading

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Cool environment-related website – Breathing Earth

I found this website via StumbleUpon. It is a neat display that shows how many people have been born, died, and how many tons of CO2 are being released into the air since you started watching the web page. The … Continue reading

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