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Kontrib.com quietly unveiled a new look and feel late last night.. and I like it! It still has a way to go but it’s a major improvement over the original site launch design. I love the ability to link to flickr images - makes a world of difference to submitted stories if you ask me! [...]

Now hey would ya look at that? My sister has her own website!! You can find her at www.thereselung.com. It’s a nice looking site! Puts my blog site to shame if you ask me!!! My brother’s site is at lungster.com. Yes.. we rule the *lung* domains!!

If you’re into web development and you need to know why something isn’t quite working under Internet Explorer (vs. say Firefox), then check out the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta 3. Install it - it works for both IE 6 and IE 7 and man - it saved my life a number of times (though [...]

I have no problems with blogs quoting stuff that I write in my own blogs. I do have problems when blogs outright copy my material without 1) asking me and 2) giving me any credit. And finally, I have some serious issues with blogs that post up images of my content using my server to [...]

In my never ending search for cool looking website designs (free ones I might add), I came across a cool site today called the Open Source Web Design (http://www.oswd.org). The site is exactly what the name is all about. It’s a collection of website designs that anyone can download free of charge. So if [...]

I’ve been dumbfounded with a javascript issue under IE which doesn’t manifest itself under FireFox. Here’s the premise - I have a page which has a single XMLHttpRequest object making calls to the server for additional information in the background. The XMLHttpRequest object requests a URL from a queue of URLs and then the callback [...]

I’ve been working on creating a database architecture at work and while I was at, I had decided to create a simple web front end to the architecture using PHP and Oracle. Along the way, one of my pages took a bit too long to load so a coworker of mine suggested in a kidding [...]

Ahh something to be proud of when it comes to Cornell. Scientists at my Alma Mater have created small robots that can build copies of themselves. The robot is made out of several small 4 inch cubes that have identical configurations. Each cube has a computer program for replication and electromagnets to attach and detach [...]

I thought I’ve seen it all but apparently I haven’t. Check out this site - (http://www.sea-code.com/). It’s software outsourcing on a cruise ship parked 3.1 miles off the coast of LA. They’re far enough away to not be in US waters thus they aren’t subject to US tax laws - the 600+ programmers make more [...]