Posted on December 31st, 2006 by
November 22nd, 2005. That was the date for the release of the Xbox 360, Microsoft's newest gaming platform that was sure to blow the gaming market away. Did it ever! Just in the first week of its release it sold out throughout North America and around the world. Avid gamers ... [ Continue Reading Xbox 360... ]
Posted on December 30th, 2006 by
3 friends die in a car accident and they go to an orientation in heaven. They are all asked, "When you are in your casket and friends and family are mourning you, what would you like to hear them say about you? The first guy says," I would like to hear ... [ Continue Reading Last Sounds... ]
Posted on December 28th, 2006 by
I just spent quite a while trying to isolate a messed up bug in Safari where png images are returned slightly darker. This came up when I overlayed two backgrounds both of which were had 100% opacity. All browsers on windows rendered everything properly (Firefox, IE6, IE7, and Opera), but ... [ Continue Reading Safari PNG Rendering... ]
Posted on December 27th, 2006 by
Just got hit here in Calgary with a power outage smack in the middle of when I was doing some browser testing on a project. Lasted for two damn hours before the lights came back on. [ Continue Reading Power Outage... ]
Posted on December 27th, 2006 by
Even though the new microsoft browser still has its share of bugs it seems to encourage clean markup. I was working on the sidebar of the permalink pages earlier today and being a little lazy I used divs all over the place instead of properly marked up lists. Firefox displayed ... [ Continue Reading IE7 Markup... ]
Posted on December 27th, 2006 by
I had a chance to catch out the new Rocky movie in theatres last night. Even though it's been over 16 years since Rocky V, Sylvester Stallone still delivered an excellent performance as the underdog boxer. The movie did not disappoint, the acting was great, the visuals were very classic, ... [ Continue Reading Rocky Balboa... ]
Posted on December 24th, 2006 by
Hope everyone has a terrific holiday season! [ Continue Reading Happy Holidays... ]
Posted on December 21st, 2006 by
A man walked up to a farm house and knocks on the door. When a woman opened the door, the man ask if she knew how to have sex. Not amused, she slammed the door. Again, though, the man knocked, and asked the same question. Not amused, the woman screamed ... [ Continue Reading Reason For Asking... ]
Posted on December 20th, 2006 by
At the start of an important trial, a small town attorney called his first witness to the stand. She seemed like a sweet, elderly woman. He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?" She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you Mr. Williams. I've known you since you ... [ Continue Reading Do You Know Me?... ]
Posted on December 20th, 2006 by
Some pretty neat high school analogies over at the Writing English Wordpress blog. 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster. 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. 3. ... [ Continue Reading High School Analogies... ]