Lightbox is nice and all, but sometimes I find it clunky, particularly in Firefox when I have a lot of other tabs open. However, I don’t want to go the route of having an image load by itself in the … Continue reading
USB pen drives are everywhere these days, and for good reason, since they’re dead useful. I use mine with my Linux box, my Powerbook, and various other systems I’ve had cause to stick it in. After a while, my 1 … Continue reading
For the longest time, I didn’t understand the full power of the various #find methods in Rails. I probably still don’t, but my understanding of them has certainly expanded. I used to use plain #find for everything. If I wanted … Continue reading
So I’ve got XGL/Compiz up and running and, I must say, it is hot. See the full entry for screenshots of what I’ve done so far. That’s the cube as I’m rotating it. That’s a photo of the city of … Continue reading
Custom shapes can be very useful for making multiple objects that look the same. For example, say you want several photos to all be cut out of the same shape, like this: Creating a Custom Shape Create a blank 200 … Continue reading