I've been tripped up by Firefox's vertical scrollbar more than once, and each time for the same reason. I always seem to notice this problem when I'm concurrently having trouble making a page layout line up correctly. One page will have enough contents for a text overflow, causing the vertical scrollbar to appear; click a...

The quarter is winding down. At least, I hope with as much sincerity as I can muster that it'll end soon; I'm ready to be focusing on work rather than school. More on that in a different post; this one is about my Capstone Project . I've always loved literature, so it was a natural choice to focus my efforts in that direct...

Is it a dream? Is it a lie? I think I'll let you decide. That's right--I'm currently installing Counter-Strike under Linux . Granted, my desktop computer is probably too slow for this to be really playable... but when I upgrade it in a year or two, I'll be set. Of course, I'd much rather play native binaries. I'd love to w...

I'll start by looking briefly at the original Top 10 claims: Traffic. No one can deny the masses that click their way to MySpace everyday. Hitwise data from December 2006 puts MySpace at No. 1, ahead of both Yahoo! and Google. They also have two subdomains in the Top 20. The mail domain comes in at No. 5 in traffic and the...

Considering the layoffs earlier this year, I've been reticent to write about working at Jobster. Even though the development side of things wasn't nearly as affected as other parts of the business, the morale ambiguity was palpable. I'm not going to term it a morale "dip" simply because I don't think the net result of this...

It's been a while since I've posted an update about TomeTracker, my Informatics Capstone Project. So, here goes. I've learned the basics of the Rails framework, and (as I've indicated before) I'm in love . I've modeled the basic data needed by the system, and it's functional in the following ways: User registration and acc...

I'm re-reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time since having watched it movie form. While I remain pleased and amazed with the beauty and caliber of the films, there's a palpable difference in detail between the two media. This missing detail is both a bane and a saving grace for the movies, in my opinion....