Category Archives: Rant
Contact Form Experiment
Yesterday, I saw this tweet from Smashing Magazine:
I took a look at the form, and I must say I was impressed too. Unfortunately, I was using TweetDeck on my iPhone… as a result, I didn’t see the contact form at all because the background image didn’t load very fast. That prompted me to post this [...]
It’s BACK!
After a great deal of effort, blog is back… I’ve lost a number of posts, though, as well as my custom WordPress skin. I’ve also lost all of my non-database-stored work, (e.g. post images, whitepapers, etc). I’ll keep you posted as to when I’m back in business.
What a pain in the ass.
PSD2HTML: Terrible Pricing for Web Development
I was absolutely disgusted by the pricing strategy at PSD2Web. Here are a few examples, and an explanation as to why the practice feels shady.
Another Sony DRM Blunder?
I recently bought “Stranger Than Fiction” from Best Buy, figured I’d watch it tonight. I put it in my DVD player, a Sony DVPCX995V, and it began to read the disc.
Then, the damn thing shut down.
I was really confused. I messed around with it for a few minutes, then I jumped into a chat session [...]
A Bigger MySpace Problem: Perpetuating Technical Ignorance
MySpace has all sorts of problems: a terrible user interface, poorly implemented HTML, notorious scalability problems, and a user base ranging from stay-at-home moms to porn stars, from preteens to the technically elite.
Yet for me, being a MySpace-r myself, there is an even larger issue: their insistence on perpetuating ignorance to avoid addressing not only the [...]
Re: YouTube and Comedy Central
Looks like I’m not the only one who thinks so:
Comedy Central clips back up on YouTube
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8126.html
Hopefully they’ll be smarter this time, (and next time, eh?)
;-D
Comedy Central and YouTube’s Lost Opportunity
Regarding: Viacom asks YouTube to purge certain clips
Many are speculating on the latest request by Viacom (read: Comedy Central) that YouTube (read: Google) take down clips of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Report and South Park. I’m not speculating on the business dealings… it’s typical copyright protection by a popular source. [...]
Dear Google Maps
Kansas City closed the Paseo Bridge, which is my lifeline to and from work, for 9 months!
Google Maps tells me that this is the best route, but knowing that bridge is out, shouldn’t I be able to tell Google that? I decided to ask them…
