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Month: July, 2008

Firefox 3.1 Shiretoko

Working on something new and I wanted to use the CSS property box-shadow to add some simpler non-image dropshadows. You can view more at CSS3 dot Info. And while I do have Safari installed, it isn’t my primary browser and so knowing that there was a 3.1 release of Firefox gearing up I managed to [...]

Heather Wilson, New Mexico Congresswoman is an Idiot

Watching Hardball on Thursday, July 24, Heather Wilson, a Republican from New Mexico kept bringing up the Brits as the example of Europe…
There are over 40 countries in Europe! Now while it may be a little difficult to get an exact number (Aneki lists 45, Wikipedia has a 47 number, Mahalo defines it at about [...]

Geometry Wars 2 – a Cheap Reason to Break Out the 360

So E3 2008 has come and gone and I really could care less what with not really having time to worry about games that aren’t coming out yet, especially when I have rather large backlog of games that I still need to get to. However it seems that Bizarre Creations finally got around to making [...]

What a Bad Way to Start the Week: Worst Monday Ever

Putting the reality of the horrors of the world, particularly those revolving around genocide, and the fact that this individual may in fact be responsible, this has to be one bad Monday to start your week off: to be charged with genocide. It’s a big thing to wake up to.
President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir [...]

Stuff for Sale!

So, recently we’ve received some leftover office supplies that were just left behind by someone. We don’t know what to do with them. The owner hasn’t come back and nobody here wants to take them home. Of course throwing them out would only be a waste, so it was decided to try and sell the [...]

A Very Goal Oriented Weekend

I got quite a bit done over the long July 4 weekend. Now if only every weekend could be this productive.

Three steps closer to launching YBP Productions
Relaunched music.yillb.com with new and improved CSS, markup, Wordpress 2.5.1 and updated plugins.
My main character in EVE Online has passed the 70 million ISK mark. Making the goal of [...]

Totally Awesome Ninja Abraham Lincoln: Unforgotten Realms

After watching a Zero Punctuation video about webcomics, a trailer was played afterward showcasing a animated comic focusing around a Dungeons and Dragons style roleplaying game between two friends, one of which tried to choose a lumberjack as a class, rolls with duel numb chucks, and has a beard; the other is a wizard without [...]

Offsite links, the Browser and the User

So in going over a new site, my style of not opening links to external sites in a new window came under criticism due in part because of my shared belief of letting the user make up their own mind with dealing with links, was called out when the user doesn’t know how to use [...]

New Video Tutorial Series: Fifteen Minutes With Flex

The guys over at the Flex Show have released: The Flex Show – Fifteen Minutes With Flex – Episode 1. The first episode covers a basic, Hello World Flex application, and covers the program and the basics of using the Flex program and deploying it to a server; simple stuff but a good refresher for [...]

Take the Citizenship Test!

MSNBC has a new quiz posted on it: Do you have what it takes to become a citizen? Using 20 ‘hard’ questions that potential new citizens may face, it tests your knowledge of American history and people. Needless to say it might be that shameful cliche of new Americans knowing more than people who lived [...]