Permitting Time Travel
A dated, but interesting article debunking the traditional vision of time travel. Simply put, the back to the future method of adjusting history seems improbable; traveling back in time is limited only...
View ArticleWindows 7
Microsoft announces Windows 7 as confirmed for launching via 2010. That’ll happen, just like vista was supposed to launch in 2005. I look forward to seeing it happen.
View ArticleBoobs and Dinks Early Detection Kit
Cool Hunting offers a helpful application to train yourself in cancer examinations called boobs and dinks.
View ArticleHow to defend yourself from a Terminator
Wired News keeps the world safe again with an indepth article on how to Terminate a Terminator. Very thorough and worth the entertainment in your free time.
View ArticleI went skydiving
I get to knock another event off my list, as Sheryl treated me to skydiving for my birthday. Brady’s Jump Sheryl’s Jump
View ArticleMillions of Bees Released on Sacramento
A truckload of bees close highway 99 ramp at Florin Road in Sac-town.
View ArticleLost Boys 2
Thank god someone thought to bring a sequel to the Lost Boys. This looks like stellar work.
View ArticleMethane detected on exoplanet
Space Today reports that methane has been detected in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet; the first organic molecule discovered on a planet outside of our solar system.
View ArticleGreat Scenes from TV and Film, Told Using Only Typography (and Sound)
Always Watching posts an article from David Chen with an excellent collage of Great Scenes from TV and Film, Told Using Only Typography (and Sound). Enjoy it!
View ArticleRobot Chicken: Gummy Bear Trap, unedited
Absolutely hilarious video by Robot Chicken – I laughed so hard I just had to convert it for youtube enjoyment: Update: Aww, deleted, thanks YouTube.
View ArticleExpelled from Expelled
Ben Stein’s scientific review of creationism in film format offered a private screening to those who reserved a seat. Apparently, however, that didn’t include Dr. Myers, regardless of his reservation...
View ArticleThe $1000 font
Keeping things business as usual, LetterHead Fonts was nice enough to post about the subsequent bittorent of the their LHF Garner, a classic sign font akin to the Larabie Blue Highway, or the exquisite...
View ArticleWhy even advertise, MSN?
Todd Bishop asks Why are these ads for MSN, not Windows Live – I’m wondering why they’d even advertise. Google gets to write snart billboards if they so choose seeing as they’re the big kid on the...
View ArticleHow to find and replace in MySQL PHPmyAdmin
Just because someone asked, here’s a quick way to find and replace content in MySQL using PHPmyAdmin. This technique works the same command line, and it’s possible it works similar in applications such...
View ArticleBless you, New York
Hot on the tails of an upcoming moving, New York hits us with a quality poster mark. George Clooney’s a good actor, but you can’t help but giggle at the wit.
View Article960 Grid System
Working hard to streamline web design, Nathan Smith created the 960 Grid System: a series of electronic templates and web code to help designers create advanced sites based off the stylistic technique...
View ArticleMicrosoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors
Microsoft sends an aggressive, and somehow sour, message to Yahoo! Board of Directors. I can’t help but giggle at the tone of professionally whining in this letter- like the big kid not catching the...
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It's Tops: Best Diner in San Francisco
San Francisco, like most major cities, is a town built on a melting pot of cuisine. No where else can you find fresh sushi next door to a bistro serving the in season best of the Sonoma valley- but...
View Articlethe RedPost: Custom Signs for the Bently Reserve
Eric Kanagy of the RedPost Inc. recently posted my sign Designs at the Bently Reserve, and I wanted to explain them a bit more to the world. I’ll go more in detail in posts soon about the technical...
View ArticleRandomizing Post Data in WordPress 2.5
I recently updated a client’s business website to WordPress 2.5, and noticed the dated rand_posts trick failed me. Further investigation noted that WordPress had completely changed it’s table schema...
View ArticleMicrosoft Vista SP1 Video: 80's humor, today!
I lost a part of myself this morning I’ll never get back, thanks to this Microsoft Vista internal pitch:
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Grandview park: 360° of San Francisco
On April 19th, 2008, the pacific coastal winds burrowed through the avenues of San Francisco and up the hillsides peaked with houses. Very few people seemed out on the town, and the ones who braved...
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Ads are now on YouTube Videos
Well, it was bound to happen, the question was less when so much as it was how, and it’s an interesting addition I’d say uses inventive techniques. Case in point- Ever Broke an Aluminum Bat (which...
View ArticleAwarding the web through negative reinforcement
Would you accept a compliment about your hair, from a stylist with horrible hair? If a mechanic said your car was junk, would you take them serious if their own car didn’t run (Steve Buscemi excluded)?...
View ArticleWelcome home, Hanzõ
Yesterday evening Sheryl joined me for a spring trunk show of Amber Marie Bently’s new line of Jewelry at the W Hotel in San Francisco. As the evening ran down, Kattya and Patrick, friends and owners...
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Hanzõ Day One
It was a long night with a spunky puppy; I’m slightly scared for my life with the next six months looking forward to staying at home babysitting and not being able to spend time with Sheryl… but he’s...
View ArticleDisable wpautop
My apologies for the feed reflux, but fed up with wordpress’ auto correct functionality, I turned it off in my posts via disable wpautop plugin. No longer paragraphs in the wrong places, no longer...
View ArticleFirst-line and letter for all browsers
Safari allows full support of the first-line and the first-letter CSS request, but Firefox 2 and under only shows partial support. Case example: the containing div of this post is class=entry (class...
View ArticleParkmerced
I’ve been digging around the Bay Area looking for a new apartment, and we continue to see the marketing ads for Parkmerced, so it was worth doing an online search. Aside Apartment Ratings scathing...
View ArticleRandy Vo
I talked one more time yesterday morning (while in Chicago) with Randy Vo. He had told me last Wednesday that he would be getting the money to reimburse us for the medical to save Hanzõ’s life and...
View ArticleTalking with Randy Vo
The saga continues with the broker who sold us our dog; it’s come to an interesting point where I’m unsure that we can mediate a solution, though I’ve tried over a dozen times, By May 23rd I had not...
View ArticleMicrosoft: You are in a helicopter
Neil Bishop, IT man at BPB, emailed me this entertaining tidbit today: A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft’s electronic navigation...
View ArticleFacebook Gangsta
Worth linking, though I feel a little dirty posting this video in my blog. Humorous for the first 30 seconds, then I have to admit, way too long to be enjoyable anymore… See more funny videos at...
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Sequential Numbering in BBEdit
BBEdit’s grep replacement feature is not as robust as most; most people get smart and learn perl or another language with a deeper definition of features, but I don’t have that time today. What I need...
View ArticleHanzo's doing well
Although we have not heard from Randy Vo since last week (when he was still trying to come up with a small payment), Hanzo has been doing fantastic. He’s running around, playing like a little puppy,...
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Cloak
Update: I’ve passed the torch to Jonny at his wonderful WordPress CMS site. He’s going to keep an eye on this, head over there for the new work! Building off the excellent, but extensively quiet plugin...
View ArticleAnd there goes our apartment
Recently, we’ve been extremely excited about our upcoming move to the Archstone South Market ; a stone’s throw from the museum of modern art and Yuerba Buena Gardens. Apparently, it may not be in the...
View ArticleArchstone, round 2
Recent issues aside, Archstone has offered us a new place to live… albeit not without some stress. As I wrote prior, our upcoming move was delayed by the existing tenant of our new apartment rescinding...
View ArticlePursuit of Equality
As Art Director for Bently Reserve, I was asked to manage, direct, and design the Advertising and Marketing for the upcoming event Pursuit of Equality. Aside from a Branding Identity, Sponsorship...
View ArticleLegal Judgment on Randy Vo
Most of you have followed along through this website, as well as the main site, regarding our legal, financial, and emotional troubles dealing with the Pet Broker Randy Vo. Due to some of the legal...
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Thrillist.com jumps shark
Thrillist is a modern, hip (cough, trendy) website that often features some of the most entertaining new events & eatery in your city… especially when someone pays them to tell you. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleThe Cove
Douglas Hahn writes: “Billed as ‘an intelligent action/adventure/Ocean’s-Eleven-like horror film wrapped around a tale of redemption and ultimate revenge,’ The Cove is a documentary that follows an...
View ArticleXML error for WordPress iPhone
I was attempting to add my blog, and my various corporate blogs, to the recent WordPress iPhone Application but kept getting the following error: “XML-RPC Service for you blog cannot be found” The...
View ArticleEregi deprecation for PHP 5.3 in CubeCart
Older versions of Cube Cart heavily used the erge family of functions. Luckily, the fix is using the new preg family, and a bit of light code changes. Head on over to Guillermo Rauch’s devthought and...
View ArticleThank you, East Bay Mac User Group!
Thank you to everyone at East Bay Mac User Group taking time out of your busy schedules to share your thoughts, and work together to learn web development! It’s always a nice compliment to have such a...
View ArticleBuying a Piano: Digital vs Acoustic
Buying your first piano is a monumental achievement; in many ways, a validation that you’re dedicated to the world of music for recreation or for profession. Nowadays, the choices between various piano...
View ArticleProfessional, Functional Timesheets in iWork
Although most of us use electronic time keeping, there are still times when an easy, quality spreadsheet can fill a quick emergency or an immediate need. I’ve found most of them online to be 1)...
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Creating an eBook with ePub
This is a first round overview of the ePub format used for digital books, which I’m finding is needed more and more in my freelance work. I’ll go over both how to code it, and tools I’ve used to...
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