I don’t normally just post links, but Atmosphere has just put a free, legal album that you can download immediately! http://www.rhymesayers.com/atmosphere/ For those who don’t know, Atmosphere is an indie rapper from Minneapolis. Again, his album is free, so check him out!
What if you have a sitemap.xml file on your server, and you want to automate the pinging of search engines like google, yahoo, ask and moreover (from what I understand, the sitemaps service for MSN)? If you have a CMS such as Drupal or WordPress, it will automatically ping, or you can ping with PHP XML-RPC plugins.I couldn’t find an easy way to simply automate the pinging of my sitemap file with PHP, so I cobbled together my own solution. The only thing you need to do to make this thing work is to replace all the instances of www.mydomain.com with the name of your actual name, and specify the variable ‘$sitemapname’ (i.e. sitemap.xml). So, give the following a try and tell me what you think! Read the rest of this entry »
I have a website with a flexible layout, I guess you would call it jello, so it resizes depending on the size of the window and resolution, making it difficult to determine what to pass as width and height variables. I wanted it to fit well into its containing <div>.
I couldn’t believe that there wasn’t already a solution for this, so I made my own. This solution uses a bit of php, javascript, and of course, flash. Please keep in mind that I cannot guarantee the reliability and/or quality of this solution, all I know is that it works for me, with IIS and PHP 5 (also works with PHP 4). Read the rest of this entry »
I try to not just post links with minimal commentary, but this tool is worth a look. I could play with this all day. I have to read about the methodology, and its hard to quantify the benefits of having your own yard for bonfires, and having whatever dog you want, but its still interesting.
So sign the guestbook at http://christian-and-julie.com/
As I saw many sites begin to integrate flash elements into their site, I decided to make one too. I wanted to make one that included navigational elements with rollover effects. As I was building the flash, I noticed that the rollover effects were too “jumpy” or happened too fast. I thought by having a delay of a half-second would make it easier to navigate, and make it a bit more “professional-looking”. I attached this little bit of Actionscript to the navigational “symbols” in the Flash file. Read the rest of this entry »
1. P.O.S. - The Audition
Stunning. Punk rock meets rap meets emo meets stunningly original lyrics
2. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Fast moving, chest-thumping punk + “Riot Van”
3. The Rapture - Pieces of The People We Love
A fun album full of dance music, I guess kinda like LCD Soundsystem?
4. The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
Hard to explain, but enjoyable to listen to.
5. Ok Go - Oh No
More just plain fun rock music, and of course, don’t miss their great music videos
In a “buyers market”, if you want to ensure that your home sells in a timely matter, you need to offer more than competing properties. Some things to consider would be: Read the rest of this entry »
A: How much a buyer is willing to pay for it.
There are many different people who are interested in how much your home is worth. When you are purchasing your home, what the seller thinks the home is worth, what the appraiser thinks the home is worth, what your hazard insurance company thinks the home is worth, and what the county thinks the home is worth are all very different. But, the most important opinion is yours (the buyers) opinion. Read the rest of this entry »
1. Chris got into the University of St. Thomas Evening MBA program
2. Julie got into the University of St. Thomas Graduate Program
3. We got a new dog, Wallace! He’s a Chinese Sharpei and he’s been taking up a lot of time of our time as a puppy.
We’ll try to be better in the future. We start classes in the fall, Chris starts a little pre-requisite course August 1st.
