I’ve had this idea for a while now, I guess I should just finally put it down in pixels. You know the White House? Yeah, THE White House in Washington, D.C.? Yeah, I think it’s time to retire it. And possible the Congressional building as well. Listen, it’s 2011 and we’re still running the country [...]
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Take Washington out of Washington
Posted September 20th, 2011 by spanky. Comments Off.
Robot Heart at Burning Man 2011
Posted September 15th, 2011 by spanky. Comments Off.
Did you catch any sunrise sets at Robot Heart this year? I certainly hope so. If not, I’ve found a way to recreate the experience at home! Here’s what you need to do: Stay up until 5am Put on the most ridiculous clothes you have laying around. Points if you incorporate a bathrobe. Cover yourself [...]
On Apple’s Location Tracking
Posted April 21st, 2011 by spanky. Comments Off.
I figured I would weigh in on the revelation yesterday that Apple is “tracking your every move” via iPhone. I know that it makes great headlines, but it isn’t true. I’m not going to be an Apple apologist, but after poking around on the web, it would appear that there’s an innocuous reason for this. [...]
Instagram Feature Request
Posted October 29th, 2010 by spanky. Comments Off.
Dear Instagram: Your software is awesome, thank you. I’ve just started using it much more regularly, now that my friends have started using it and we’re “friends”. So I have a suggestion for your app: When I’m browsing my “feed”, I want to see the photos of my friends. Normally you accomplish this by scrolling, [...]
You Can’t Beat The Price
Posted August 17th, 2010 by spanky. Comments Off.
Burning Man is free.
Mozilla (Firefox) Accessibility vs Design vs Me
Posted July 2nd, 2010 by spanky. Comment (1).
Greetings again. Today’s rant post is about Firefox and CSS and Accessibility/Usability. The problem: Users (and QA) complaining about the dotted line that appears around links and form elements (buttons, submit, checkboxes, etc) in Firefox. This line is usually just inside of the bounding box. The line appears “on focus” and “on click”, or “:active” [...]
Why Twitterrific Failed
Posted June 25th, 2010 by spanky. Comments Off.
I am SO sad. I love Twitterriffic. It was the first Twitter client I used and every attempt to replace it has brought me back to it. Sure, I am admittedly addicted to the Tweeting bird sound, but that’s not all. It’s clean, fast and uncluttered. Despite missing some MAJOR features (like Retweet. Hello?!) I [...]
Apple Can Eat A Bag of Dicks
Posted June 24th, 2010 by spanky. Comments (2).
If you know me well, you know that I’m essentially an Apple Fanboy. I mean, I own an AppleTV for crying out loud. (It sucks, BTW). But you also know that I’m not blind to Apple’s faults. For example, I routinely go off about OS lockdown and carrier lock on the iPhone, the endlessly shifting [...]
Installing Self-Signed SSL cert on OS X Snow Leopard
Posted December 7th, 2009 by spanky. Comments Off.
How to generate and install a self-signed SSL certificate on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
A complex, flexible table layout
Posted March 25th, 2009 by spanky. Comments Off.
A quick little walkthrough of how I set up this seemingly simple table. It has some hidden complexities that are easily taken care of with some planning.