Blast from the past…
Anybody remember the video for Green Jelly – Three Little Pigs? I got to thinking about this song, and after downloading the mp3 from allofmp3.com, I decided to hunt out the video. Since I love claymation, I felt the need to post it here. More »
IE 7 Sucks!
Along with all the other problems that have long plagued Internet Explorer, with their newest release, one of the worst bugs I have ever seen is packaged with it. This video gives a good demonstration of what happens:
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Validate Email Address
Here’s some PHP code that will validate an email address.
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Creating a starburst
Difficulty: 2 (Beginner)
Time: 5 minutes
I decided to give tutorials a try and have seen how popular the “vector starburst” has become, so I decided to demonstrate a simple way to do that in Illustrator. There’s a pretty decent tutorial of how to do one in photoshop here, if you’re interested. More »
Major glitch in banking…
I used to work in customer service in a bank and I am currently working for a credit union, and I must say that the software writers that code for banking transactions need to fix a serious glitch. Here’s the situation:
I have an account with a local financial institution that I use solely to pay my bills, so I rarely keep much extra money in it. I usually put just enough in it to pay the bills through their bill payment service and that’s it. More »
MySQL Custom Sort
Here’s something neat. If you want your SQL results in an order that’s not alphabetical or numerical, this little bit of code will allow you to specify what order you want your fields to appear. More »
Interdum
This post is merely to display a block of code and how WP manages to jack it up. Notice the extra line break between each line of code. This isn't going to work, and must be fixed!
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margin-bottom: 12px;
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font: normal 1.1em "Lucida Sans Unicode", serif;
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background: url(img/quote.gif) no-repeat;
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padding-left: 28px;
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color: #555;
Also, aren't the blockquotes cool!?
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First Post
Ah! the infamous first post of a blog! It usually consists of me promising to say more when I have time and then end up never posting another article ever again. Well, I hope that is not the case this time. Instead, I think I'll make a list of things I need to resolve with my WP Theme I've been working on, and cross them off as I figure them out. This list will probably grow as I find more things wrong with it, but hopefully items will eventually get crossed off. Ok, here we go: More »