As much as I’m a fan of metro shelving and gorilla racks. I was curious if I could throw together some cheap wood to make shelves. This is the first design I came up with. And here’s the first version I made: It’s basically my version 0, but I didn’t include the supports in the…
Read More Cheap/Ugly/Functional shelvingI really like ice cream. But sometimes I’m too lazy to sit there and use a spoon. So when that happens I reach for an ice cream shake. Here are the ones in town I like in most favorite to least: Recommended: Big Top – pretty much perfect. EZ’s – good options. Offers malts too.…
Read More Austin Shake/Malt Roundup/RankingsThis was first a post about one about:config entry in FireFox I wanted to remember. But now there are several, so for easy reference, I am going to just put all of them into one post. Fixing Accidental Page Zooms (FireFox + Logitech G9x) I’ve got the Logitech G9x, and I use it with the…
Read More My FireFox about:configIf you’re running a simple site, you may find that using even one sub-directory is overkill. You have one CSS, one JS, and one HTML for the entire site, and name them after your project. If you’re like me, and end up working on multiple sites at a time, it helps if the file names…
Read More A simple htaccess line for micrositesI took a few hours today to make a tool to help me convert CSS snippets betwen single-line and multi-line. lazyCSS.com Right now it’s just a bare-bones site but I hope to flesh it out within the next week… month… year? One neat little feature I threw in there for this “alpha” version is that…
Read More Announcing lazyCSS.comSo I’ve been playing this game called BattleForge, and there are a handful of websites that exist just to display information about these cards you can collect in the game (think Magic: The Gathering or Pokemon). People have also made Adobe AIR applications and Microsoft Access databases. So, naturally I thought I would pollute the…
Read More Announcing allbfcards.comA couple days ago, I tried cloning my Windows Vista drive in preparation for upgrading to Windows 7. Something went wrong though, and my original drive wouldn’t boot anymore because of the infamous winload.exe. So I got rushed into upgrading to Windows 7 earlier and unprepared. But luckily, to a large degree I was prepared:…
Read More How I survived a fresh Windows 7 installThis one comes with a live demo! One of the biggest problems with my last Canvas experiment is that if you put text labels over points of interest, they quickly clutter up and become difficult to read. In this demo, I take a list of labels and the coordinates they belong, then I treat each…
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