Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Public Service Message: ../index.htm

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

One of my pet peeves is when people post links or URLs in prominent locations (posters, advertisements, etc) with the "/index.htm" or "/default.php" or "/default.aspx" or any of the derivatives of these. Please people - with very few exceptions, URLs with default.htm or index.htm or things like those do not ...

Building a Backyard Screen

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

What is better than watching a movie in your backyard on a nice warm summer evening ... on a huge screen! We're approaching the two year anniversary of when Doug, Nathan, Joe, Kelsey, and I built a huge backyard screen for the showing of High School Musical 2 on August 17, ...

Dual-Monitors Full Screen Flash

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

UPDATE: These instructions only work on older versions (10.0.22.87) of the Flash Player - there is an updated, easier solution here (via Lifehacker). If you have two monitors like I do, you may like to have full-screen flash videos playing in your second monitor. There is a problem, though, that as ...

New Laptop: The Small Things

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Santa brought me a new laptop for Christmas, a Lenovo ThinkPad T400. I have traditionally been a Dell guy, having an investment in their power adapters, batteries, and docking stations. This time, though, I decided to go with a more conservative model, trading in some "style points" for better performance. ...

Google Chrome

Friday, September 5th, 2008

I've played with Google Chrome a little bit, it seems slightly faster than Firefox or Internet Explorer, but that could just be because it's new and it seems fatster to the human mind. My problem with Google Chrome, though, is that there are no add-ins (a.k.a extensions). I am a heavy ...