I just finished posting about the iPod Shuffle. If you happened to have been reading in Firefox as I finished posting it, you may have noticed a huge problem with it rendering the onion-skinned drop shadow. As it turns out, no matter how I laid out the <object>, <param>, <embed>, and <div> tags, Wordpress would conveniently screw up my code by adding its own <p>, <br /> and closing tags all over the place. Even after I told Wordpress not to automatically correct incorrectly nested XHTML tags, it still messed things up. Needless to say, I finally found a way to save my post (I used phpMyAdmin) to minimize the damage done by Wordpress.
Monthly Archive for January, 2005
I totally forgot that Macworld San Francisco was this week. I just read on Ars that Apple announced the iPod Shuffle, among other things. Of course I was curious about it, so I went to Apple’s site to find out more. This thing is a beautiful piece of work.
When I first bought my iPod, I thought for sure that there was no way I could go to a flash-based player now that I have my god of MP3 players. The Shuffle is something that just might make me change my mind. At $99 for the 512MB model and $149 for the 1GB model, I’m almost tempted to get one to supplement my 40GB 3G iPod. By supplement, I mean that I’d use my Shuffle for a quick audio fix, meanwhile still using the 40GB for the majority of my filed library and an external hard drive.
We’ll have to see how the mortgage, credit cards, and other things play out. After all, I just bought Chris a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P100 digital camera for Christmas.
Have you ever seen the commercials for the $20 Cold Heat soldering iron? I have been pondering about how this amazing piece of technology might work. It appears to use a patented material called Athalite, along with some patented and patent-pending electronics, to almost instantaneously heat up to 800°F when in contact with metal, then be cool to the touch just as quickly.
There’s an article at Xbox-Hq.Com with more.
In the metrosexual department, my hair stylist Stacy is back to work at the Hair Cuttery in Palatine. She’s been gone on maternity leave since just after the wedding. I don’t remember if she cut my hair before Bob’s wedding or not, but I have missed her. The other people who have cut my hair in her absence just haven’t been able to duplicate the work that Stacy does to my hair. Yes, my cut is simple (a 2 on the sides and a little longer on top), but Stacy is the only one who can get me in and out in under 20 minutes.
Anyways, I’m glad she’s back, and I bet anyone who’s seen my hair lately is glad she’s back, too 
I’ve recently implemented Spam Karma on my blog to fend off the comment spammers, and I am quite impressed by what it has done so far. In the last 48 hours it has caught 42 comments and determined them to be spam. What I am waiting to see is if it will allow a normal comment to go through without a false positive. If you’ve got a WordPress blog, you should give Karma Spam a look.
Mike sent in the following question:
I really prefer the simple, uncluttered look of a G4 Apple laptop; however, I am a Windows user. Does anybody (not even Sony) make a similar appearing laptop with Intel guts? I also prefer the "super drive" for DVD and CD, not the chaep plastic CD burners typical on most laptops.Read on for my answer. Continue reading ‘PC laptop to rival Apple?’
Happy new year or something. Our low key new years party was a success. It was very low key, at times boring, yet plentiful in food.
Thanks to Chris’s grandma for the Wing-It deep fryer, which we have put to use making fried mozarella and jalapeno poppers (the wings are later tonight). A game of Trivial Pursuit is still in action, so I must return to it. Oh, wait, now we’re going to play Loaded Questions.
Thanks to Chris’s grandma for the Wing-It deep fryer, which we have put to use making fried mozarella and jalapeno poppers (the wings are later tonight). A game of Trivial Pursuit is still in action, so I must return to it. Oh, wait, now we’re going to play Loaded Questions.
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