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A while back Google released a JavaScript API for YouTube which allows you to build your own custom players for YouTube content. It lets you do some neat things, such as completely changing the look of the YouTube player, including making a completely “chromeless” player.
I recently (finally) signed up for a YouTube account for […]

Until today I had never heard of the Conficker worm. Suddenly today there seems to be a lot of media hysteria about it because tomorrow it is apparently going to cause the world to come to an end. Or at least that’s what the local news would have you think. Just like […]

From the dawn of dynamic web pages people have been devising ways to feed different content to different browsers. Instead of coding to the standards and using progressive enhancement, they would create different versions of pages that catered to specific browsers, different versions of those browsers and the respective bells, whistles and bugs […]

Last Saturday a friend had an extra ticket to see Nine Inch Nails and invited me along. It was at Key Arena in Seattle, my first big arena show, I usually stick to seeing bands in small clubs. It was the first “official” stop on the Lights in the Sky tour, and despite […]

“It is just wonderful to be back in Oregon and over the last 15 months we’ve traveled uh to every corner of the United States, uh I’ve now been in 57 states, I think, one left to go. One left to go, uh Alaska and Hawaii I was not allowed to go even though […]

If you are reading this on April 9th, you might notice that the site looks a little plain today. That is because I am participating in the third annual CSS Naked Day.
My newest website (which I haven’t mentioned here until now), Countdown To Anything is also participating.

I just heard about a really interesting new documentary being released by one of my heroes, Ben Stein. It’s called Expelled: No intelligence allowed. Expelled is a documentary which explores the suppression of free speech in the scientific community regarding any criticism of Darwinism and the persecution of anyone who expresses an […]

Myspace has never been known for it’s usability, but this just blew my mind. The e-mail address that I have registered with them is on a domain name that I owned, but which has expired and will not be renewed, so I wanted to change my e-mail address with them so I can get […]

It’s Patch Tuesday again, as I usually do, I reviewed the Window updates that had been pushed out before installing them. The first update in the list is a rather scary bug in the Windows TCP/IP stack, which could allow remote code execution.

I’m happy to announce that the beta version of WhichComics.com is now open at http://beta.whichcomics.com/. Anyone who like to sign up for an account is welcome to, all that is required is a username and password.
More features and enhancements are already planed, including enhancements to the GUI, AJAXy features and OpenID support. For right […]