Written 11 months ago
With my website in the middle of its 2nd year I continually see an amazing amount of growth with the raw number of hits and traffic to the site. How much? I use two sources to estimate traffic; the server’s AwStats and Google Analytics. The server system tends to be very accurate, but the data can be flawed by hits of any sort, especially ads and phishing ploys, exaggerating results. Analytics tracks by a small bit of javascript that reports stats back to Google,…
Written 11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Sony MDR-V600
I have to say, after what I believe was a 6 year tour through the end of high school, and several college migrations and again through a move to another side of the country, these headphones were still working amazingly well…. sorta…..a lost bag, and eight-to-quarter adaptor in addition to twice-repaired cushion and electrical-tapped padding, and finally after I noticed a rattle at about 40hz when turned up loud I put a new pair of headphones on my Christmas…
Written 1 year ago
Making websites, I had to write this at some point; I Hate Internet Explorer.
There are plenty upon plenty of hate-articles circulating in published works and around the Internet about Internet Explorer. If you don’t quite know what I’m talking about, look at these two examples below of two websites.
The Left is Internet Explorer 6, the Right is Firefox (v2)
Written 1 year, 1 month ago
Since starting work at Apple, this post had to come down. Sorry.
First, I have to credit this fix to this site:
http://web.mac.com/rickcameron/iWeb/Electric%20Lamb/N.A.P./36ED1903-8F75-4E6F-B5D3-6A056E40BC96.html
That single picture and the description…
Written 1 year, 1 month ago
This example came from a project where the Calendar (the big one) needed the entries separated by color for readability. Using the custom weblog field for categories helped this out.
Users can select a color in the Edit Categories menu by a simple drop-down list created using a preset of colors. Those colors are put directly into the CSS. Of couse there are more complicated additions to this idea, and different styles other than colors could be used. But... this is simple.
1. In…
Written 1 year, 1 month ago
I was talking to a hobbyist engineer (you know the type) after a concert, and he told me digital was too bright for voice. So he uses a machine that has a darker tone, and said he would prefer to record to analog (tape I’m assuming). After mentioning a preamp with a “darker” tone, he became interested in the model.
Let’s start with what he had: a pair of Octavas, Behringer mixer/pre and a Nakamichi recording devise. Octavas are bright suckers, as…
Written 1 year, 1 month ago
After helping Nathan Watts with his website project for the St. Luke Lutheran Church in Haslett (Michigan), the church felt they needed a webmaster to maintain the site. Nathan was not able to handle the job with his commitment to the 24/7 program at New Life Church, and so they approached me. I interviewed while traveling back to Michigan to see family, and now I’m reinventing the site.
While Nathan’s work was very good, it needed an extra tweak to give that last…
Written 1 year, 2 months ago
The Intro, & Disclaimer
For anyone who might bring up computing or technology in my presence has more than likely been graced with my Apple/Mac speech. It’s no secrete I’m half Pro-Mac, and half Anti-Windows, especially while currently holding two certifications and plan on more. While I don’t use the traditional “it just works” arguments and etc, I do explain I was an avid Windows-tweaker, and when I switched to the Mac I found I tweaked…
