Friday, December 16, 2005
I spent a little time with the new Google Homepage API yesterday and looked into inserting apps written with Laszlo into Google’s Portal. I played with one of the simplest BlogBox the community has developed, ClockBlox.
I followed the API specs and quickly had a ClockBlox in my Google Homepage after creating little XML file […]
Thursday, December 1, 2005
Enough sitting at home every night with my headphones on making sounds that only I will ever hear.
I’m the first band playing at the Bottom of the Hill on 15 December in SF so show up early. I think I go on around 8:30pm and will only play for 20 or 25 minutes, […]
Thursday, December 1, 2005
I’m a little late at bringing attention to it, but folks at the company that I work launched Laszlo Mail, a demo version of Laszlo’s kick-ass web-mail client. Check it out. It’s quite an accomplishment and I’m difficult to really impress when it comes to stuff like this.
Sure it’s not as full-featured as […]
The tricky part of creating a class that displays a scaled reversed character is figuring out what to stretch & what to flip. Ultimately, the best solution was to add a single view wrapping the (resizing) text with a stretchy view that is flipped and positioned to take the flippage into account.
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Thursday, October 20, 2005
Today after work I looked through Emil Ruder’s Typographie and decided to start explore digital typography using LZX.
The first thing that I attempted was to reproduce the image on the cover of Typographie using whatever fonts I could find on my system. Maybe I’ll get into creating my own digital font like my friend […]
ugh. Please excuse the default skin while I’m updating Wordpress from 1.5 to 1.5.2.
I also have to figure out why categories aren’t working as expected…
I had dinner with a few folks at a friend’s house and after dinner the five of us sat around talking. Playing in the background was a tape that my friend made of a MTV’s 120 Minutes, circa 1992.
Although that was made some 13 years ago, I still consider much of the music featured […]
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
I started reading DUNE: The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert - son of the author of the original Dune series - and Kevin J. Anderson on Monday night. I’m not yet sure how I feel about the style of the younger Herbert - the book reads a lot more quickly and doesn’t have the […]
I got a bit of a chuckle just now while browsing the headlines at Google News. I guess you shouldn’t just take everything that you read in the news at face value.
“Bush said God told him to invade Iraq, Afghanistan”
Aljazeera.com - 2 hours ago
Bush didn’t say God asked him to invade Iraq, says official
Deccan […]
I went to EFF’s 15th Anniversary Party. Three founders spoke about their experience founding the organization back when they were heavily involved in the WELL before the Interweb was hip - Mitch Kapor, John Gillmore and John Perry Barlow. (who co-wrote lyrics for the Greatful Dead for 15 years)
Not really knowing any of […]