09 Feb
Cox Communications Internet is Crap!

It’s been a long time since I’ve made a post and I will once again make an effort to change that. Though, it’s interesting that I use the internet and computers and do programming and all that (horrible grammar aside), but I simply cannot seem to maintain a regular pace with the whole blog thing. [...]
06 May
Website Upgrade

While relaxing in my hotel in Seattle I decided the time had come to go ahead and upgrade my Wordpress install. This of course means it’s time for a total re-design as well. For a place to start, I’m using a template called “Fluid Solution”.
Fluid Solution 1.0 by Viktor Persson
Totally liquid three-column layout, clean and [...]
29 Mar
How Geek Are You?

80% Geek

28

Probably old news for some, but I found a bunch of hilarious quizzes on this site. I’ll add some more as I do them!
17 Mar
Agua Stacks for Your Dock

One of the more interesting features in Leopard are the stacks in the Dock. For a while now I’ve been using the Drawer Icons to sit on top of the stacks to give me a quick idea of what they each are by more than just the contents. Well, I’ve just found something even better!

One [...]
22 Oct
Beauty And The Geek: Firefox 3’s Visual Makeover

The team behind Firefox 3 plans to ditch the unified cross-platform look of the browser in favor of a sexier look tailored to specific operating systems. Rather than a single look across all platforms, which is the way Firefox currently ships, Firefox 3 will feature different skins for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X [...]
08 Oct
A new fun way of looking at server logfiles - glTail.rb

A small ruby program which connects to your servers via SSH, grabs and parses data from Apache or Rails,and displays your traffic and statistics in real-time using a simple OpenGL interface.
It’s a bit hard to explain in words, so please have a look at the site for an example movie and more information.
read more | [...]
18 Sep
Type in the Toronto Subway

An amazing article about the history of, and degradation of, type in the Toronto Subway system by the indomitable Joe Clark. Anyone who loves design, typography, and information design would do well to read this (admittedly, you’ll need an hour or two to get through it all). It also features quotes and ideas from Massimo [...]