For my wife, Becca’s birthday, we decided that a fun present would be to adopt a beautiful female Basset Hound from the Greenhill Humane Society here in Eugene. We had found out that she was in need of a home via their website. After contemplating adopting her for a couple of days, we decided to pull the trigger. The biggest factor in adopting her was not so much whether or not she would be a good fit for her (we knew she would because she appeared to be such a sweetheart), but rather how our existing dog, Oscar the dachshund would feel about her. continue reading…
April 17, 2009
It is a common topic of discussion that comes up between my friends, co-workers and I. In this day of age, the day of the iTunes store, Amazon mp3 store, and so on, most people are completely switched to the world of digital downloads when it comes to music. It seems a lot of times I’m the odd man out because yes, I still buy records (and by records, I mean CDs.) Now that’s not to say that I don’t occasionally grab a single or two off iTunes (especially if I’m in need of that instant gratification.) However, to me one of the greatest feelings in the world is ripping open a fresh copy of one of my favorite artist’s record, experiencing it as an album, the way that that artist (and their respective production crew) meant for me to hear it.
March 26, 2009
Chris Calef’s company, Broke Ass Games has created a new product called Ecstacy to be used for making animations for game and video products. At Broke Ass they’re focusing on making this tool attainable for the indie game developer, which sets it apart from similar products on the market. The video he has posted on YouTube is very telling of what this can do. Looks very cool! Video after the jump.
In our kitchen, next to the stove, we have this vast cabinet that didn’t really make much sense to us. Because it is so deep, a shelf wouldn’t really be functional as it would be a huge pain to reach all the way back. Becca decided that she’d like to have a nice roll out shelf because that would make it perfect for storing her cooling racks and various baking and cake pans (she loves to bake.)
Upon making a stop at the local home improvement store, we found out that you can’t just buy a kit to throw one of these into a cabinet. And besides, why would you want to? Most projects like this in kit form are of cheap construction and the hardware is usually a joke. In addition, I figured by choosing the right wood and finish, I would be able to get it to match the look and feel of our cabinets. So, I decided to do the DIY thing and buy the materials and bust out the tools to do this thing right. Also, with Rob’s help and Alex’s plans for inspiration, I had built a new workbench in the garage a couple weeks ago, so this was a perfect opportunity to put it to use.
January 21, 2009
I’ve been meaning to check out the WordPress iPhone application ever since I got my new gadget weeks ago. This is a really useful tool for starting—in this case finishing—blog drafts on the go (I usually start my posts in Evernote.) this application makes great use of the WordPress XML-RPC API and also has built-in support for sharing images from the iPhone camera. I’m sure I will find that camera feature useful. One complaint though, I can’t type in landscape mode with this app.
On that note, I was resistant to the iPhone keyboard as a method to accomplish a lot of typing originally but I find myself getting increasingly faster.
I haven’t really found too many applications I couldn’t live without so I would be curious to hear what peoples favorite apps are. The games all appear to be one trick ponies.
I spent some time today at the lab working on our first official child theme for OnePress Community. We wanted to release a theme that would give adopters of OnePress an easy way to get their blog looking elegant, since the default theme that OnePress comes with is more geared toward developers. I’m pretty happy with how this theme turned out. The colors ended up steering toward subdued blues and greys. If you want to download this theme, head over to the official announcement and grab it.
Also, the forums over at OnePress are starting to get some activity now that I fixed a permissions issue for registered users. Be sure to hop on those to get involved or speak your mind.
December 23, 2008
There’s always that one guy in the crowd, the heckler. He goes to game after game loaded with a copy of the opposing team’s roster annotated with all kinds of clever mockery and word plays on visiting player’s names. I had a friend in college who had a voice that could pierce the entire crowd. In fact, at one Michigan State basketball game he got the referee’s attention and received a hand motion for what was perceived as a warning. No longer does my friend need to be such a die hard attendee at real life sporting events to pursue his dream as a heckler. Nope, Sony is going to bring the action home in next spring’s installation of MLB: The Show. continue reading…
December 22, 2008
I love Amazon.com. I give them so much money because they do so many things right. But today I ran into an odd interaction on their site against the convention of linking to a user’s name. continue reading…
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Ask and you shall receive. At PushButton Labs, we have heard the cries of those of you building and running websites and online communities. You wanted a way to connect your forums to WordPress. You wanted a way to customize and build your site completely with widgets. You wanted a way to present your content using a workflow that makes sense. You wanted all of this for free. Well, I’m excited to introduce to you OnePress Community, the WordPress theme framework that accomplishes all this and much more. continue reading…
December 4, 2008
With the chaos of the Thanksgiving holiday, it was a little hard last week to keep in the blogging frame of mind. With a little bit of a turkey hangover, I am guilty of not recovering until now. What was I doing instead of blogging? Well, I chose to engage in a number of other activities… Here’s some random things I did over Thanksgiving. continue reading…
