Jaimie and I have been pushing to reduce the impact of our living on the environment. Recycling was an obvious first choice. Just by being careful about what we throw out, we’ve been able to reduce our trash significantly. Our recycled papers and plastics have taken a lot of the mass out of our weekly [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Weird things coming home from vacation
Jaimie and I prefer to vacation in Hawaii, it’s beautiful, it’s easy, and it’s not too much work. However, the last two times we’ve gone, the only two since we’ve been in the new house, we’ve come home to some strange things. The first time we came home from a week trip and all of [...]
Trouble for Webshots
Webshots and the Facebook have a rather symbiotic relationship. The core audience of the Facebook has historically used Webshots to post all of their party pictures. Webshots allows free hosting of 240 pictures per free user. However, most people are smart enough to realize that they can sign up as many free users as they [...]
Just a little pet peeve with Bloglines
I love bloglines. I use it every day and usually keep a browser window open to the site. However, lately I’ve noticed that I seem to be getting more and more stories duplicated. I’ll check in the morning and go through all my feeds. Then later on many of the stories that I read earlier [...]
Javascript libraries
There seems to be dozens of javascript ajax libraries opening up these days. There was an interesting one featured on ajaxian recently called moo.fx that produces very nice effects within the browser. I’m finding it amazing how far the web developers toolkit has come over the last several years. It used to be that it [...]
TV Poker
Started watching the Travel Channels coverage of Texas Hold Em awhile back and found it interesting if I had some time to kill. One of it’s best aspects was watching the pros bluff each other and having the inside knowledge of what was going on. It was fascintating to see the control over emotion and [...]
In Kauai for the week
Jaimie and I have been spending the last week in Kauai, HI. It’s our one vacation for the year and we really look forward to it. We’re big fans of Hawaii, it’s close, it’s easy, and it’s very relaxing. We went to the Big Island’s Four Seasons for out honeymoon and that was simply amazing. [...]
Text box autocomplete
Fun project for the weekend. Figure out how to do the text box autocomplete display with javascript. I understand the ajax part about fetching the data. I just need to figure out the display portion. How to format the div so that it floats underneath the text box and looks somewhat proffesional. Any suggestions or [...]
Managing my data
I’m fascinated by the implications of the Web2.0 idea along with ajax and rich web apps. I’m a bit disappointed though that most of these applications seem to be dealing with social type programs. Maybe these are just the low hanging fruit, but there are so many other areas that can be improved upon with [...]
Data envy
There’s an interesting article on I, Cringley about Apple’s latest video ipod and more importantly a study on Google’s AdWords. I think it’s fascinating that Google has risen to the level that people are spending this much time analyzing the way that they work. I also just finished reading Battelle’s book Search that discusses some [...]
Responding Quickly, Good Job Bloglines
I just noticed that bloglines has added hot keys. This is just a few short days after Google Reader came out with them in their product. I played around with Google Reader a bit and using the hot keys was really the only way that I thought it was usable, it was just way too [...]
Over-analysing Blogs
In tonights 106Miles meeting there was a bit of discussion on RSS and tracking readership. This came from some other discussions in the blogosphere about being able to track who’s reading and how many subscribers a blog has. This is an inherently difficult thing to do because of the way that the system has been [...]
106Miles is back
Tonight was the first meeting in a couple months and I’m glad the group is back. The focus of the discussion was Web Services from Amazon. Jeff Bar, the webservices evangelist, started the talk with a 10min presentation. He then moved on to syndic8.com, a personal project of his. The focus of the amazon portion [...]
Why use xml with ajax
Continuing with my explorations of ajax, I was struck with the question of why to use xml as the message structure. It seems that there are two options. Use javascript to add functionality to the page, use xml as transport from the server, format response and alter page. Use javascript to add functionality to the [...]
Oh well, there goes the neighborhood
I’ve been doing a lot of playing around with ajax now and last night I saw something that took my breath away. I should have known it was coming, but sometimes you just hope for the best. A site had taken to using ajax style elements to produce popup ads within the page. It floated [...]