My dear friend Dawn pointed me to this excellent Chris Cornell cover of a classic MJ song, it’s certainly worthy of a few listens, I don’t recall him sounding this good in Soundgarden.
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Categories: audio
Yet another song that have been significant in my life.
Not much I can say about this song other than it reminds me of my wife. I like the Dire Straits version best, but Matt Nathanson does a great job performing this live.
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Categories: audio
I want to start by saying that I seldom use Photoshop for web production, I may use it for some visualization and image editing but as a general rule, everything ends up in Fireworks for any layout or slice and dice that may need to happen. Yesterday in what I can only describe as a […]
Categories: webdev
I recently just finished a project that included a day-by-day itinerary, and an hour-by-hour speakers schedule, I really wanted to highlight the current days events, and emphasis the current speakers bio - not a daunting task by any means - but always looking to skin the cat differently, I used a single line of php, […]
To the somewhat rude lady @ the WAWA on Bristol road who feels her ability to spawn gives her some kind of built in preferential parking permit- I’m not CHILD -LESS, I’m CHILD -FREE, which like sugarFREE, fatFREE, and ‘FREE like in Beer’ - is a choice, not an affliction, so enjoy your screaming, fussing, […]
Categories: minutia
I read about Definr yesterday on DownloadSquad.com, Definr is a web 2.0 online dictionary - it’s fast, it’s minimal, it has autocomplete — and it works - took me about 30 seconds to determine that I can get a definition equally as fast from definr, as I can from the mac dictionary (since I […]
Maybe it’s part of our genetic code, or more likely it’s biological, but did you ever wonder why certain combinations of hair color, body type and complexion appeals to us, while other, don’t - I find the whole topic fascinating. IMHO men are generally honest to their ‘types’, slaves to our desires anyway - being […]
Categories: daily
I’m always amazed when I get Photoshop files from colleagues or clients that don’t use layer effects or styles, combined with vector shapes - resolution independence is somewhat achievable, and they make automation simple, simple, simple.
IMHO Everyone should have a solid (and flexible) button-style in their toolbox, here’s one of mine - changing the color […]
Years ago, I worked with cool guys (Brad, Camille & Dave) in an equally cool office (aka - THE CAVE black ceilings, dark forest green walls, glass and chrome furniture) - not that you’d ever see any of it because the lights where generally off, and like quality mushrooms we lived in the dark. The […]