Absurd

Being gone 2.5 years and things change a bit. I was caught off guard by this today. My car registration needs to get “up to date” with the DMV. I tried to do it online, but the system just gives me errors and non-sense. So, yay, time to go visit the DMV. I tried to schedule an [...]

Facebook’s Privacy is not Sensational

A lot of people are getting up in arms over this anonymous tell all article about the kind of insight Facebook has into your browsing habits, messaging history, and more. I can tell you that nothing, nothing, in that article made my eyes pop out of my head or my anger rise to boiling levels. They [...]

Moving: Sweden to US

A few months back I decided to move back to the US after having lived in Sweden for just over 2 years. It was a personal decision about where “home” was, and a sad decision too because the job and friends in Sweden were amazing. I won’t miss the winters one bit, but that’s about [...]

California Host: Beyond Cheap

Browsing though some job listings, this one in particular piqued my interest, so I thought I’d write a letter to the company. Dear California Host, Hello! I would like to book your services to host a get away training seminar for my staff of 20 in Hawaii! Please book a 5 star hotel and first class round [...]

Out for a Walk

I awoke today to my cats sitting on my bed, chewing on loose threads. The sun was streaming in through the window and I felt nicely rested — I’d had a late night. I got up, ate some breakfast, and lazily watched a tv show. 2 hours or so gone by and I was feeling restless. [...]

Remixing

I linked to this a while ago, the excellent “Thru You” remix project. The project was bouncing around my head recently and reminded me of these “OS Sounds turn into music” compositions as well. So I spent some time youtubing it up and pulled out quite a few good ones. Enjoy! SndRec.exe (swf) Re: Windows Remix Still alive using only [...]

Google Chrome Javascript Benchmarks

One of Google’s big claims-to-fame with it’s new Chrome browser is that it is blazing fast with it’s amazing new V8 Javascript engine. Here are a few image comparisons of the speed of Firefox 3 running speed tests, followed then by the results from Chrome running the same tests. (Each image links to the test) http://dromaeo.com/ http://mootools.net/slickspeed/ http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/ http://celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed2007.php   As you can see [...]

There was no Flash Back

Kim and I went to a house warming party for a co-worker last night. He, like probably 90% of 08′ers*, lives in an apartment building and resides on its second floor. This apartment building had a central stair case which twisted upwards around a central shaft elevator. Also all elevators in Stockholm of these types have [...]

Webserver Setup, Redressed

I thought I might take a moment to talk about my web hosting setup. I run a decent amount of websites (roughly 12 or so) and some of them quite popular. Popular enough that, long ago, I’d outgrown shared or VPS hosting packages. I tried dedicated for a bit, which was nice but expensive. So, in [...]

Wordpress and MySQLi Only Installs

I have long since ditched MySQL 4, and about a year ago I stopped installing the plain MySQL libraries with PHP. (Mostly, they are a pain to install when you are custom building MySQL 5 and PHP 5 on 64 bit architecture, but I digress…) However, not having access to the plain mysql_* functions makes Wordpress [...]

Awesome

I was doing my regularly schedule Vanity Search and this came up: Made. My. Day. :D :D :D

Intuitive Image Zoom Technique

Kim was browsing the Banana Republic site looking at buttons on jackets ( her’s keep falling out :( ) and she showed me this neat rollover zoom image feature: Regular Mouse Over’ed This is a very neat effect — simple, useful, intuitive, and easy to degrade (click would enlarge). Love it! I plan on keeping this little gem [...]

Color Palette Generator Upgrade

I took a few hours today to review some of my old code and update it. The Color Palette Generator is an old project of mine — probably 3 years old now — which takes images and, as it says on the tin, creates a color palette from it. The algorithm introduced originally was fairly simple: In [...]

A Walk and A Museum

Me and Kim went to visit the Tekniska Museet (National Technical Museum) which happens to be a short walk from our apartment. (Like, really short — just across a huge park down the street). Anyway, some photos! Kim in the park I head the top of this tower is a restaurant The place had a really cool light up [...]

New Plant Tires Kitties

I got a new plant — cats got new plant. :| Lucy goes for the kill Lucy nom noms … … and naps Sam sat it out till later, when he found a way to SIT in the plant :(