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This is one of the funniest football stories I've heard in a long time. This comes from a great interview with Craig Wolfley —the color analyst for the Pittsburgh Steelers . BTSC: You were part of many great games in the Browns-Steelers rivalry. I make no attempt to hide my …
One problem that can often come up when designing a web site is problems with legibility of the text on your web site. You might have issues with kerning, line spacing, font size and even the contrast between the foreground text and the background color. The tool I'm sharing with you today is …
Well, I'm proud to say I just helped Raymond release a new version of BlogCFC—version 5.9.3.000 . Hopefully the "Switzer" edition doesn't become known as the version that made BlogCFC jump the shark . :) A lot of the mods I contributed were related to the XML-RPC stuff, since I …
One thing that really irks me about Google's implementation of IMAP is that when you "delete" a message in Outlook, it doesn't move the message to Google's "Trash", but instead just removes all the labels. Since Gmail doesn't have a good way to view just unlabelled messages, …
Well, I logged in to my Google Apps mail tonight and Google finally decided to roll out "Themes" to my Gmail. I'm not sure why it took them so long, but at least it's hear. What's really weird is most of the other "Lab" tools seem to arrive pretty much in sync with everyone …
I recently replaced my system and in doing so, I the drive location of all my mp3s moved. Since I use Winamp to actually listen to my music on my PC and have always just relied on file locations for everything, moving my directories around is not a big deal. However, when I bought my iPod a …
Well, I spent some time this afternoon upgrading my version of BlogCFC. This was a bit of a task, because I had fixed a number of issues I've come across in the past few years. However, Beyond Compare 3 made this task relatively painless—a bit time consuming, but painless. I was able to …
This is a few days old, but I just stumbled across it. Dream Theater's 10th studio album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, is being released June 23, 2009 . I really loved Systematic Chaos (although the title song was my least favorite on the album) and I've get recently gotten back into Train …
Yesterday I came across a very timely post by John Hann on Debouncing Javascript Methods . I say timing, because this was a problem I was just getting ready to solve again for umpteenth time—managing rapidly fired events in JavaScript. I was working on some live search functionality for a …
So, Internet Explorer 8 was just officially released. First off, I was really impressed with the download speeds. In the past downloading Day 0 releases from Microsoft have always been a bit problematic for me—because of the sheer volume of download requests. However, my download …
