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Jib Jab

October 22nd, 2008

I’ve been teaching myself the ActionScript needed to load and crop people’s heads into movies, so I’ve been playing with Jib Jab a lot lately. Lovin’ it!

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Upper Management

October 2nd, 2008

(noun) uhp-er man-ij-muhnt

An entity that makes you hate a job you used to love.

For example: “Water is to fire, as upper management is to creativity…”

Getting a paypal button to validate

September 5th, 2008

Thank you paypal for supplying us with code that won’t validate.

To fix this, just use the “email link” they provide as well.

Save their button image and make it link to the “email link”
rather than using their improper form code.

Google’s Chrome browser

September 4th, 2008

Google has a new browser in beta called Chrome. Seems pretty neat but I have yet to really sink my teeth into it.

Many Browsers

Reason #4,136 why Internet Explorer sucks

August 22nd, 2008

Fun experiment:

  1. Try making a form that has an image for a submit button and captures all relevant data in Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, or Safari
  2. Now do the same thing in Internet Explorer
  3. How many work-arounds did you have to use? (from 1 to impossible depending on what it’s for)
  4. How reliable are they? (never 100%)
  5. How many would you have needed if IE followed w3c standards? (0)

(technically this is aimed at Opera too, you IE wannabe…)

An “Evil” Job?

August 21st, 2008

I swear it’s like I work with the Phantom of the Opera or the Wicked Witch or a fat guy from any anime or something.

I’m just sitting here coding, trying to concentrate, and all I hear all day at random intervals is maniacal laughter….

What the hell people? SHUT UP!

Sgt D’s Foundation

July 7th, 2008

It started as just volunteering to do web design for a local charitable non-profit, but ended up with me being on the board of directors. I just attended my first meeting.

The group organizes fun events (very golf-centric) and then donates the proceeds to needy families (something Sgt D had been doing before he made it a non-profit)

Still waiting on 501c3 status (applied for).

The link: Sgt D’s Foundation

Sgt D’s Foundation

WP-Ban

March 26th, 2008

Kudos to these guys:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ban/

Handy plugin

I’ve added WordPress

March 5th, 2008

To learn how to make WordPress themes, I have changed MattMeade.com over to WordPress. The basics are done but expect a few tweaks to the theme in the near future as I iron out all the details.

To have a hard copy and keep everything consolidated, I will be transferring all my Myspace.com blogs to MattMeade.com and stop updating the blog at Myspace.com.

Happy New Year!

January 1st, 2008

What a great year and the next will be even better. Thanks for partying on the eve!

Happy New Year!

What a great year and the next will be even better.
Thanks for partying on the eve!

Resolutions: (updated 7/9/8)
1. Jiu Jitsu at least once a week when possible (broken, dammit)
2. No smoking whatsoever (not even occasioanl)
3. Eat right
4. Expand my profitable web projects
5. Drink responsibly
6. Philanthropy

Happy New Year!