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Now 14.7% More IE Friendly

  • 5 Oct, 2006

Blog on a stick is now 14.7% friendlier to our IE visitors. I removed a script that allowed IE to actually render transparent PNG’s with transparent backgrounds. It seemed to be slowing down the blog for those users and I didn’t like that. So it’s gone. Instead, you get to see an ugly background on […]

Chicklet Creator Plugin 0.5 Released!

  • 3 Oct, 2006

— discontinued — The Chicklet Creator WordPress plugin just got better and much easier to use. Version 0.5 Includes: A configuration pane in Worpress’ admin area. New Feed Buttons. Lots of new code. All local images for fast load times. More like a real WordPress plugin. Check out the Chicklet Creator WordPress Plugin v0.5 and […]

Nightmare Before Christmas 3D & Desktops [updated]

  • 2 Oct, 2006

They’re back, Jack Skellington, Sally, Dr. Finklestein, Oogie Boogie, Zero and the whole Nightmare Before Christmas gang. This time, in digital 3D! Disney is re-releasing the movie in select theaters across the country on October 20th 2007. I haven’t found out where it’s playing in Minneapolis yet, but, if it is, I’ll be there! If […]

Halloween Desktops & Wallpaper

  • 1 Oct, 2006

It’s that time of year again when ghosts and goblins become ‘in’ and pumpkins get faces. Ahh yes, it’s Halloween time! A few years ago I created a Halloween Desktop page and they are still available today. However, I’m considering creating some new, larger, desktop wallpaper designs for this year. Nothing over the top, just […]

Cedar Point’s New Coaster – Maverick

  • 1 Oct, 2006

Cedar Point, the sister part of Valleyfair, is opening up their own old west themed coaster in 2007 called Maverick. Maverick is a steel coaster that has an amazing 95-degree angle drop and has linear synchronous motors to propel the train. Meaning it doesn’t climb slowly up a hill, it races up hills. Reaching speeds […]

Pulmonary Embolism – Foods to Avoid with Vitamin K

  • 30 Sep, 2006

Since my wife recently had a Pulmonary Embolism we have to watch what foods she eats. Vitamin K is one thing she doesn’t want to get to much of as it will interact with her coumadin medication. We know to say away from green vegetables, but there are a lot of other foods high in […]

Google Reader Advances

  • 29 Sep, 2006

I can’t say I was ever a big fan of Google Reader, it was just a little to weird for me. However, the new Google Reader seems to be more advanced and much nicer. I’m actually quite digging the simple interface, nice layout and the stared or shared items.The only thing missing is browser integration. […]

iPod Nano Completely Remastered Desktops

  • 28 Sep, 2006

Introducing the iPod Nano Completely Remastered desktop pictures. I really like Apple’s new ad, however I was unable to find any good desktop pictures to go along with the ad. So I took the time to create six desktops based off Apple’s new iPod Nano ad. Desktops ~ 1MB Each: Pink, Blue, Green Dark Pink, […]

Google Calendar and iCal Do Jive

  • 27 Sep, 2006

Humm… much like most of my problems, once I complain about them, they get solved. So here is what I learned about Google Calendar. My public WebDEV calendar just needed time to refresh. A good hour or two and Google loaded it no problem. My FTP calendars loaded just fine once I removed the robots.txt […]

Google Calendar and iCal Don’t Mix

  • 27 Sep, 2006

I’m not sure if it’s just me or not, but I can’t seem to get Google Calendar to work well with Apple’s iCal. I have FTPed my calendars up to a folder on my website, pointed Google Calendar to those ics files and yet, nothing shows. I’ve even published my iCal calendars on a public […]