It was BK’s birtyhday. I decided to try my hand at fondant (the stuff that makes wedding cakes look so perfect).

The berries ae ripe. Blueberries are good, as are raspberries – but they both cost big $ (even in season). Blackberries on the other hand, only cost the time and effort to pick. We went out to the 1000 acre park where the berries were plump and plentiful. Here is Samantha drying out part of […]

My friend Jamie had all the equipment (plus hops growing in his yard). Each night a different batch was made: Pale Ale Imperial Red Hopscotch Ale (double batch) Luke’s Holiday beer When we added the hops the air became so fragrant that the neighbors started coming by to see what we were brewing. Did I […]

Mark Frauenfelder of boingboing posted the following moments ago: Loren Coleman of Cryptomundo writes about the Bigfoot body purported to be discovered in the woods in Northern Georgia. The guys who claim to have discovered it are holding a press conference in Palo Alto on Friday. Well, it looks like the Cryptomundo servers have asploaded. […]

Silverlight is Microsoft’s competitor to adobe flash. On many computers you will need to download the plugin in order to watch the olympics online. What strange, is that the plugin is an artificial requirement for mac and non ie browsers. On a PC with IE7, you get a “proceed without plugin” option. Here is a […]

I gave a little talk at our monthly “All Developers Meeting” today. The topic was web optimization. Recently we setup http compression on our servers and I decided to take a look at how much bandwidth we save via all of our optimization/compression techniques. Using our academic programs page as a sample, I ran the […]

A List Apart is currently conducting their yearly survey: The Survey, 2008 Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide. All […]

This post was created using the new iPhone WordPress application. A few days ago, I posted about my excitement. Now that I have had a chance to use it – I can say that I am not disappointed. It is available now in the app store and cost the same as wordpress.org – absolutly nothing! […]

Getting there We wanted to go to Pansy Lake fire tower – road was blocked. So we turned around. Milepost 33/34 – bridge – lots of gravel, past 4-5 active rock quarry shooting galleries -There may be a car or two at the trail head, but there will also be spot to park just past […]

So you have some feeds and want browsers to be able to find them using autodiscovery. The problem Unfortunatly, you have static pages and would have to update each one to add the <link> tag. At PCC, we have a site composed of tens-of-thousands of pages. Some are static, some are dynamic applications we can […]