02.08.04

Interesting Intro Class

Posted in General at 10 pm

Looks like this could be an interesting Intro Class at Portland State… Don’t you think?

_This used to link to the registration page for my Intro to Web Graphics course_

02.06.04

Bluetooth Headsets

Posted in General at 10 am

Yay! Apple’s new Bluetooth Update 1.5 finally supports headsets.

It’s finally coming together! Now all I need is to actually buy a BlueTooth dongle (or a new laptop) and then an appropriate headset to match.

02.01.04

Halftime Tivo or Reply Needed

Posted in General at 5 pm

At the very end of the halftime show of the superbowl, did Justin Timberlake rip off part of Janet Jackson’s shirt?

I’m not saying he did, but I thought I saw something kinda strange.

I’m so glad the game started to pick up. 4 minutes left in the first half and no points? Then 2 scores by each side in 4 minutes? Crazy.

01.24.04

Web Power Tools redux

Posted in General at 9 pm

The list of Web Power Tools that Nick and I put together has gathered a good set of referring links already:

Now I’m off to update my contact information to point to my new domain: http://www.rossolson.com

01.22.04

Web Power Tools

Posted in General at 3 pm

So last night, Nick Finck and I presented a great set of tools for Web development at the DevGroup Meeting. I’ve written up the notes from the Web Power Tools meeting as one of my WebDev articles.

I even got the following note afterwards:

THANK YOU for a great DevGroup presentation, last night. We’ve decided you are “fated” to be a teacher. Thank you for sharing.

Well that was sure nice.

01.20.04

Bad Aliasing

Posted in General at 11 pm

Okay this doesn’t make a lot of sense.

bad-alias (17k image)

I installed OpenOffice.org, the open-source office suite. It uses the X11 environment, which I know is different from the Aqua environment, but I don’t know what’s up with the anti-aliasing artifacts that I’m seeing. They look like they *might* support some sort of sub-pixel smoothing technology on an LCD display. But I’m on a CRT so it just sucks. I’m actually hoping that I can look at this entry on my iBook’s screen and see a difference in the image above.

Maybe there’s a setting somewhere that I can re-configure. Not that OO.o is anywhere near fast enough to actually work for me on the Blue and White G3…

01.15.04

Unresolved Issues

Posted in General at 4 pm

A short list of unresolved issues:

  • War in Iraq
  • War in Afganistan
  • Blown CIA agent cover/Karl Rove
  • Osama Bin Laden
  • Cheany’s Haliburton ties
  • Rice’s Oil industry ties
  • Enron
  • Worldcom
  • other corporate fraud
  • Mad Cow / Food supply safety
  • Military personnel suicides

Add others through the discussion board/wiki.

01.05.04

Color Theory

Posted in General at 8 pm

This and the Snowman House of Horror have always been my favorite Calvin and Hobbs cartoons.

Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn’t they have color film back then?

Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs ARE in color. It’s just the WORLD was black and white then.

Calvin: Really?

Dad: Yep. The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.

Calvin: That’s really weird.

Dad: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.

Calvin: But then why are old PAINTINGS in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn’t artists have painted it that way?

Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.

Calvin: But… but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn’t their paints have been shades of gray back then?

Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else in the ’30s.

Calvin: So why didn’t old black and white photos turn color too?

Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?

01.02.04

New New New

Posted in General at 12 pm

Panther Panther Panther!

RealBasic RealBasic RealBasic !

DV Cam DV Cam DV Cam!

USB Scanner USB Scanner USB Scanner!

Snow Snow Snow!

Happy New Year!

01.01.04

Happy New Year

Posted in General at 1 am

Happy New Year Everyone! Have a wonderful 2004!

Remember, regime change begins at home!