Archive for Web Tech
A while back, someone noticed that the dropdowns in the main navigation menu at Jaggery had stopped working. You could still click department names in the menu to go to a department’s main page, but the menu wasn’t showing the sub-items that it was supposed to. After quite a bit of poking around, I eventually […]
Flash Player will stop working at the end of the year. (It’s already been shut down in some browsers.) So if you want to revisit any old-favorite Flash games, now’s the time. For example, there’s the lovely flOw, made by (at least some of?) the same people who made Journey and Sky and Flower. Microbes […]
My new sites are settling into their new homes! Thanks again to Jeremy and Jenn of Clockpunk Studios, for doing a great job of redesigning the sites, and providing a lot of helpful handholding along the way. To see a list of the various sites, select the Sites menu from any page of any of […]
I recently encountered two videos that contained background music that I liked, and learned that both pieces of music were...
I've been using Movable Type for my own blog since 2005, but have grown increasingly dissatisfied with it of late....
NPR reported today on Immersion, a project from MIT that shows you a graphical view of your email connections to...
I didn't know Aaron Swartz, the brilliant Internet activist who committed suicide yesterday at age 26, but friends of mine...
Had an idea on the way to work last week. There are two (minor) problems I'd like to have a...
Three unrelated-to-each-other Google easter eggs (may not work in all browsers): Search for [askew]. Search for [let it snow]. (And...
I keep thinking it would be great if browsers had a better tab-and-window management system. I'm probably an atypical browser...
There's a nifty HTML5 Showcase site that shows some cool demos of what's possible with HTML5. Unfortunately, at the moment...
In some contexts, it can be very useful to be able to view your site the way that the Googlebot...