Archive for July, 2008

ABC’s Wipeout wiped out

Watched a few minutes of the new show tonight. Looks like the producers were going for some sort of mix of MXC and Ninja Warrior. It missed on every count. Was not funny at all. The challenges just weren’t that challenging. I predict a very quick demise for this show. Had to watch a little [...]

Hello Baby

While watching the first two episodes of the HBO John Adams series tonight I felt my daughter kick for the first time. It’s still early, so it was a subtle movement. But it was definitely exciting.

Gotta support The Fox

I’ve decided that in order to support the quickly declining Fox News that I’m going to have to get at least 3 terrorist fist jabs in each morning. Jaimie is usually good for at least one. However, that means I’m going to have to get Maggie The Cockapoo trained as well.

The best way to wake up

Nothing tastes better than a cold Diet Mountain Dew as you sit down to read the news in the morning. It cuts through the fog of sleep and brings your brain to the proper state for getting the day started.

The movie Untraceable isn’t worth the time

When a movie starts out with the torturing of a small kitten you should pretty much just shut it off then. Untraceable sure seemed to want to portray an Internet age horror story with the accuracy to satisfy the techie crowd. I give it some credit for at least trying to be plausible, however using [...]

Great little tidbit on using YUI hosted files

You can now roll up all of your JS files from YUI into a single files. I found a pointer to this little tidbit here. This really helps to reduce the number of javascript includes that are required on pages. Seems like they should be able to do the same thing for CSS shortly. Always [...]