Twitter did something unique with their "Site down for maintenance" message. They introduced the internet to the fail whale graphic. I think this was pretty ingenious on their part. First, it distracts the users from the fact that they can't actually use their favorite website at the moment. Second, it ...

I ran across this interesting post today. The photographer took photographs of refrigerators for a variety of individuals. It is interesting to me what you can tell about person just by the stuff in their refrigerator. A bartender's fridge. He goes to sleep at 8AM and wakes up at 4PM daily. A ...

Let's face it, many of us are either skilled at design or skilled at coding, but only the rare individual is talented at both. If you are a coder or a designer, outsourcing provides a way to focus on your strength and pass along the other half of the work ...

Hello there! This post is for those who're looking for a low-cost variant of creating a Flash website. There are a few situations when this article will be of a great use to you: - you don't have time (money, patience, will, etc) to hire a professional web developer to build ...

Today I got a notice of a new stock image website, StockFresh. This site was started by the same group of founders who started stock.xchng and Stockxpert. I am a big fan of stock.xchng so I am sure StockFresh will live up to expectations. I grabbed a few images from ...

I just fixed a problem with the blog I didn't even know I had before today. Some of you may have noticed that the link submissions haven't been working for quite some time. The problem arose as part the fallout from the issue described in this post. Well finally today ...

Apologies for the lack of posts last week. I was out of town on vacation for Mardi Gras. Here's some photos for your perusal.

That's right. Charlie Sheen joined Twitter just on Tuesday and now has over 500,000 followers. Obviously I think it will be a little hard to repeat his formula of getting fired from the highest paying TV acting job followed by general loony-tune dialog in TV interviews. But the speed he ...

Recently, I needed to create a demo application for someone. The project required me to have a TCP socket server listening for client connections. Python offers the ability to get something like this up and running quickly. Even better, since I am certainly not the first person to run into ...

This post caught my eye this morning. Artist Corinne Vionnet has painstakingly layered hundreds of tourist photos on top of each other. I think the resulting images are pretty cool. I think it's funny that tourists all want to take pictures from the same angle. Isn't that what post cards ...