Last night, there was a lunar eclipse. There have been several over the past few years, but the Pacific Northwest’s heavy cloud cover usually blocks the best views. Yesterday was an exception – the sky was crisp and clear. Click to see the larger: 1) a bit blurry, 2) a little shake and 3) wide […]

Here is a cool CSS3 trick. By the creator of Spell with Flickr and Befuddlr (addictive!), this little program sets up the code to hide an image in plain sight. Point to the url of your favorite image and add some text. The program uses Safari and Firefox’s support of CSS3’s ::selection pseudo-element to render […]

Reduce, reuse, recycle Who doesn’t love a nice, warm, roaring fire? However, burning hardwood seems a shame (not to mention expensive), when the urban jungle provides one with other combustible options. Our house is located in a nice little neighborhood. If it were not for the occasional train whistle, I could almost forget how close […]

Our good friend Fish (aka the “disgruntaled Mr Fish“) is moving to Florida. His girl Linda already made the trip down there and soon enough he will be joining her to live in “America’s Wang”. Before he goes, we have the pleasure of a house guest for a few weeks. Now he really is a […]

Samantha loves Amber. She once even mentioned that when she gets married (hint, hint), her preference would be for a ring of amber rather then the traditional diamond. To her – amber is stylish, unique, and most importantly blood free. Maybe that is why I was so appalled to run across this conversation on a […]

Stuck in some smoky pub watching the “big game”. Good food, good suds, good friends… Guess I shouldn’t complain…

The quick way… I will give you some hints: hedge clippers a saw and a time-lapse camera

Mozilla (the basis for the netscape, aol and firefox browsers) celebrates its 10th birthday today. Ten years ago, Netscape announced it would release to the public the code of its flag ship product, Netscape Communicator 5, making it an open source product…. Over time, Mozilla would become the name of the open source project, AOL […]

Now for some first impressions I will add real images as soon as I can grab (another) camera. The button wiggle is odd – like something from Yoshi’s island. You can even move the icons on the “dock”. The bookmark to home screen is awesome – it even makes a custom icon from each page. […]

I almost wrote “Apple hates .EDU!”, or “Apple hates Education”. I really don’t believe that either is true, but both reflect a question that has been on my mind since I got my iPhone: “Why is there a .COM button, but no .EDU, .NET, .ORG or .GOV?” Let me explain The iPhone is a marvel […]