Back when the web was new responsible designers were only supposed to use the websafe color palette. This consisted of 256 colors that 16 bit computers were capable of rendering with a reasonable degree of accuracy. This became known as the browser safe color palette. When print designers came on the scene they were used [...]

For those of you who aren’t big fans of Star Trek, you may not know this weekend is Scotty’s Final Public Appearance. The actor James Doohan recently announced that he has Alzheimer’s disease. The tribute tonight will have William, Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and all of the other living members of the original Star Trek Cast. [...]

Over the past few years I’ve noticed Halloween becoming as much of an adult holiday as children’s holiday. On my block the level of exterior decoration has been steadily increasing in frequency and complexity. What was once a few cardboard cutouts taped to the inside of bow windows, has given way to elaborate dioramas with [...]

It seems that a man wearing a tutu and with an advertisement for an online casino painted onto his chest was able to bypass security work his way onto the three meter diving board and execute his maneuver to the cheers of onlookers. Not that I encourage lawlessness, but you have to applaud a persons [...]

My subscription to Wired Magazine ran out EONS ago. Ok maybe more like three or four years, but as the great prognosticator of WebmasterWorld RCJordan put it “on the internet everything is measured in dog years” (link). Anyways, I dropped my subscription to Wired Magazine for the most backwards reason of all, they had too [...]

I’ve been working on computers long enough to know the two most important rules:

Save your work often.
Backup Your files.

I also know first hand the consequences of not abiding by those two rules with the Murphy’s law variant, The Files you didn’t save or backup will be one of the following:

The most important file
or
The most difficult [...]

As an American on the later side of thirtysomthing, I’ll admit it I could probably stand to lose a few pounds. Not that I’m a fatty mind you, I’ve just got a little extra padding. In fact according to the US government obesity is now a disease (news story). So why is it Americans [...]

The Olympics start this Friday August 13 in Athens, Greece. In ancient Greece warring city-states like Sparta and Athens were able to temporarily set differences aside so the games could be conducted. With security costs for this years event estimated at 1.5 billion (news story) it seems that as a society maybe we aren’t as [...]

If you’ve seen my kitchen you know I like to cook. Every cook has signature dishes they make. Some are fancy and require hours of preparation (like my version of Death by Chocolate) others are simple and easy to prepare. The thing that makes them stand out is the Love of the Craft the creator [...]