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Last Monday through last Wednesday I attended Mulberry Technologies’ XSLT course. I had a fun time, and learned a bunch. To prepare, I looked through a few books. I looked through Jeni Tennison’s Beginning XSLT 2.0 book, but it wasn’t for me. I didn’t like how wordy it was… I got lost in the dialogue, […]

From the views that you will see on all of the replays, you will see Kenny Lofton’s hand getting to the bag before Pedroia’s tag touches him. That I will give you. However, from my view point, the point at which the Indians left fielder was out was AFTER that… when his hands both came […]

I’ve got a concert tongiht. Check out the Columbia Orchestra site for details. Tchaikovsky 4, along with Strauss’ first Horn Concerto, and a Brandenburg. Should be pretty good, especially since I’ve practiced a fair amount for this. I don’t expect anyone I know to come, as there is also something going on in Boston tonight. […]

I am finished my XSLT class, and learned some very interesting things.  Very cool the way some of the features of the language fit within the context of Scheme (and Lisp, for that matter).   More to come.

Tonight I am packing for Boston.  Red Sox ALCS game 2 is tomorrow evening, and I wouldn’t miss it for the world.  I was looking forward to visiting my friend Kacy, but I haven’t been able to get in touch with her yet.  Kristen, my other Boston cello-playing girl has been in touch, and we’re […]

Goal for today: figure out why Firefox for Mac is displaying drastically smaller font-sizes than Firefox for Windows. Why this may be difficult: I don’t have a Mac to use at work.

I am a big fan of Sage, the RSS newsreader plugin for Firefox.  In my move, I have tried a few other apps that I thought would be a little better at handling the on-again, off-again nature of me checking my favorite feeds. I tried Vienna for mac, as it was free, and it worked […]

This is my appropriately named “catching up” post.  As most know, I’ve moved over the last month.  Despite my early action, I still had to do a lot of work at the end of the month.  C’est la vie, that’s what moving is.  Aside that, I’ve also been focused on various work related things (css, […]

Alright, so I would be willing to admint that this is TBS’s first year covering the playoffs… but come on guys, can’t you do better than this??? You have cut out during first pitches, missed plays, repeated common Red Sox knowledge… and worst yet, you put Don Orsillio on the Rockies game. You’re on the […]

The Red Sox start the playoffs tomorrow at Fenway against the Angels. I will be rooting for them (as always), but with added urgency since I have the chance to go to Game 2 of the ALCS, when they advance. 🙂 Getting tickets is rather unpleasant, but I managed them somehow. Guess I’ll have to […]

I moved most of the large items this weekend. I still have a few odds and ends (less than one car-full) left at the house. One more trip, and then one trip to wash the carpets, and I should be fully vacated from the old location, and fully “in” the new. Of course, everything remains […]

My thought for the day is this: Everyone should keep usability in mind while performing their job. While creating something (especially like a website), some aspects end up being unrelated—graphic design to programmers, implementation details to designers, etc—however usability should be an part of every aspect of the creation process. There are an unending number […]

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Red Sox game all night on my computer. When I saw David Ortiz up in the 9th with a man on, and down by 1 run, I went running into the living room and turned on the TV. He fouled off one pitch, and then, just in time […]

I’ve been working on the same project for about 4 weeks now. 4 weeks straight. It’s the re-design of certain parts of a big site using CSS. Sounds like nothing, but the constraints of the re-design are that it must function almost exactly like the old. Therein lies the difficulty. It is surprisingly hard to […]

If there is one thing that I’m a sucker for, it’s cheat sheets. I love letting my eyes fall upon a single page and navigate right to what I’m looking for. It takes the whole “open book, locate index, look up word, find page, find where on page” process out and beats it with a […]