geek of technology

i’ve added a couple hacks to the site to dissuade viewers from using internet explorer, including a javascript-powered microsoft-free weekend.  back in the early 00’s, microsoft-free friday was a thing.  this was around when firefox was just starting to gain momentum.  there were a couple of ways of implementing msff — one was an apache […]

i’m not going to publish the link yet until the client officially approves the site, but my first website for heritage is done. i was able to do most of it over the weekend and on my half day friday, overall spending maybe 8-10 hours working on it total. i was happy to find out […]

so the way it works is that i create a photoshop document (psd) of the web site i’ve been assigned to based on the content given to me and a “design interview” (di) with the customer.  the psd is basically what the site will eventually look like when all the html and css coding is […]

so i took the freelance graphic design job. so t hen i was like “oh crap, i need to install graphic/web design stuff on my computer now” which i didn’t have because i had reformatted in the recent past. thus began my weekend-long frustration with my computer.i have a modded windows 2003 server os installed […]

with very little help from me, the upload issues i was having seem to have resolved themselves.  i blame comcast completely, but i don’t care so long as it works.  now you can go here and download my nin YZ remix without it being cut off.  also, the ampache page is using the latest development […]

*doing happy dance* i got the m’f’ing sound to work on my hackint0sh!! aww yeeeahh! i was ready to throw in the towel when i was trolling the insanely mac forums and found a modified cmedia driver and i tried it and awww yeeeah, success!!! i can make the little blurp noise when i turn […]

someone told google that if they changed their color scheme from white to black it would save 750 megawatt hours a year, so they said, why not. you can check out blackle and do you google search in an easy-on-the-eyes black, which is also pretty goth. (as a sidenote, there’s already a blackle firefox search […]

after several failed attempts and much twiddling with drives and MBRs, i am now happily running a fully functioning (albeit silent, at the moment) copy of Mac OSX on my PC.  i had to wipe my ubuntu install but i made a full backup before doing so, so i should be able to restore it […]

warning, the following rant is of a geekish nature and has several prerequisites if you are to understand the anecdotal value of it. otherwise the “short description” is less amusing, but not jibberish. PREREQUISITES: knowledge of hard drive partitions (at least that they exist) basic understanding of linux basic understanding of GRUB is helpful basic […]

i got dragged into facebook a while ago by tess, but i didn’t do much to my profile because it looked like another myspace toy crossed with linkedin and a) i don’t care about myspace — i have a better blog, and b) i’m already on linkedin…i got dragged back in today because a couple […]

probably no one really noticed, but the server was down for a bit yesterday.  it seems to have hung sometime in the afternoon and needed to be rebooted.  it seems to be a-ok now…

random 001::yesterday i received 7 emails from my backup server for a daily status update which i set up a long time ago.  when i went to see how the mail server was set up to find out why i got these all of a sudden, i found out the mail server was my (previously […]