Archive for the “geek” Category

Nativity

I’m a little irritated with the new Firefox (v3.5.1) as one of my favorite addons, Mouse Gestures Redox, isn’t working yet. It allows users to navigate via the mouse–e.g., hold the right button and drag down to open a new window. I’m constantly doing it and it isn’t working!
Why is this not a [...]

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17 Most Favorite Firefox Addons

Loading up Firefox for me is like calling forth a beast which has to first wake up, then grumble on out of it’s cave. I’ve got a lot of addons running and I’d say I utilize roughly 85% of them on a daily basis. Here are some of my absolute must-haves:

Adblock Plus
It makes [...]

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NAKED! Or, Why This Site Looks Funny

The 4th Annual CSS Naked Day is upon us!
educeme.com is running without CSS for the next 48 hours.
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words.
As long as I’ve done [...]

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Updates 03-06-09

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Work is super-crazy. Not in a ‘I’m always so busy my head isn’t on straight’ way, just that it’s totally insane the stuff we deal with at work. It’s like the underbelly of education and I had no idea it was this fucked-up.
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George isn’t doing so well. He’s developed some sort of [...]

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Theme Awesome

I was able to resist the redesign urge, lasting a full seven months. That might just be a record for me.

This new design (theme dubbed ‘Awesome’, semi-tongue-in-cheekily) continues to maintain a single column but features a full-width dark header and footer, within which resides site internals such as navigation and search. Hovering the [...]

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