Asian Language Web Design

June 30, 2006 in Web Technology

His repulsion at the design of many asian-language sites might be the sheer fact that the language itself is seen by his brain as a visual element.

WC: Argentina 1 – 0 Germany: 49th minute

June 30, 2006 in World Cup

Sports announcers crack me up. No sooner had Marcelo Balboa and the other guy finished talking about how Kahn was calling the German goalkeeper Lehman “flawless” and they were fawning over his three shutouts than Argentina takes a corner kick and heads it “flawlessly” into the back of the onion bag.
Talk about the ultimate jinx. [...]

Digg Clones

June 29, 2006 in Web Technology

A great idea spawns a million permutations. It’s not quite a million yet, but the 3spots blog has a nice list of “all” the digg clones in existence.
They also link to some open-source software to make your own digg-style site, add tagging to any project, and do other digg-style things. A nice compilation of resources [...]

Flock vs. Firefox

June 28, 2006 in Technology, Web Technology

I just don’t get why Flock exists. Admittedly, I’ve only been trying the new beta for all of 20 minutes, but it is simply the same as Firefox. In fact, I had to install the Performancing plugin to post this entry as the Flock blogging client is too skimpy (no categories?!).
Can someone please tell me [...]

3D Logic Puzzle

June 28, 2006 in General

A nice puzzle which asks you to connect colored blocks around a 3D cube. It looks like a Rubik’s Cube but works differently. 30 levels of challenge. It uses a cookie to save your progress if you click the Exit link.
This will waste a good hour or so of your time. I got stuck on [...]

The New ESPN 360 Sucks

June 26, 2006 in Web Technology, World Cup

I thoroughly enjoyed the first 5 or 6 days of the World Cup. I watched a good bit of it on my computer while I worked using ESPN 360. This is the video solution that ESPN offers through a select group of broadband ISPs. So, your ISP is basically picking up the tab for the [...]

Bruce Arena buries US soccer

June 22, 2006 in World Cup

Bruce Arena has buried US soccer for another 5 years. By sticking to non-producing veteran players in a 4-5-1 scheme that had failed to score a goal so far in the World Cup, Bruce Arena negated any of the young talent he had on the field. His inept management, on the field and in the [...]

Losing Something

June 22, 2006 in General

About 10 years ago, I was playing a lot of harmonica. I was completely self-taught and might have had a smidge or two of talent. My dad always encouraged my musical proclivities and bought me a sweet setup with a Shure Green Bullet mic and a Peavey Classic 30 amp.
Well, a year later the mic [...]

In the Works

June 20, 2006 in Ruby on Rails

It's both an attempt to keep a long-ago made promise and a nice way for me to finally truly put all this Ruby on Rails tinkering to use. It won't be of use to that many people, but it will teach me a lot of very esoteric Ruby code and will make the literature geek [...]

WC: Argentina 2 – 0 Serbia-Montenegro: 31st minute

June 16, 2006 in World Cup

The Argentinians are dismantling the Serbians. Their first two goals have been wonderful antidotes for the late-game heroics common to the last 6 matches of the World Cup.
In the last few matches, it seems that goals have come at a premium and even then only in the last 10 minutes of the game. The Argentinians [...]