This is not a mundane detail, Michael.

View of Bellingham

Mike — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:51:39 +0000

Nimbus is closing. Last night for the best view in town. For now.

Favorite Videos of 2010

Mike — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:18:56 +0000

First up are 2 local Bellingham videos. The City of Bellingham created this video as a promo for their bid in the Google Fiber for Communities project:

Local comedian / DJ Nathan Cox recreated the Brooklyn State of Mind video with Bellingham State of Mind:

I loved this Verizon ad, recreating a Big Red Gum commercial from the 80′s:

Here is the original from the 80′s:

And of course, the best video of the year was the Old Spice Super Bowl ad:

Congratulations Peter and Emily!

Mike — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:58:27 +0000

See the rest of the wedding pictures

My favorite videos of 2008

Mike — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:48:10 +0000

You can vote however you like. These kids are awesome. Wish I could find the lyrics to the verses here.

For all my love of the Rick Astley, I really enjoyed watching Obama sing the song.

Loved the whole Nailed it! series on funny or die. Mostly lasted during the writers strike. So lame, but kinda funny.

Nailed It! Ep. 16

Guess I can’t leave out Yes We Can. I think it was very helpful in getting people excited about Obama early on in the presidential race.

And finally, from election night 2008. Marching around downtown Bellingham was a blast. I really wish there was a video of this night. Here’s my brother walking around in his American flag boxers:

Killer Ape Video

Mike — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:10:16 +0000

I made this video my junior year of high school. My english teacher gave extra credit if we made a short movie. Still not sure why. I filmed and edited this the afternoon and evening before the deadline. Editing with 2 ghetto VCRs was fun. One of the VCRs had a 2-3 second delay when you hit the record button. I vividly remember staying up late counting out over and over “one one thousand, two one thousand, three one NOW”. You can tell where the editing gets messed up at the very end.

Killer Ape on youtube

Virus.exe

Mike — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:55:58 +0000

Here’s the video the ResTek staff created for iMovieFest 2004.

Virus.exe on youtube

Happy New Year!

Mike — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:13:58 +0000

Shots at New Years

Dear T-Mobile, show me some Bellingham 3G coverage then we’ll talk

Mike — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:57:43 +0000

I really want the new G1/android/gphone. Seems pointless without 3G speed for the Internet.

Is this mapquest from 1997?

The T-Mobile 3G coverage looks great in Seattle and the Eastside, but doesn’t even reach as far north as Everett.

Boo.

SWFUpload with flash 10

Mike — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:45:03 +0000

Flash player version 10 has new security restrictions with it’s javascript interaction. It is no longer possible to trigger the local file picker from a javascript event. Basically breaking the most legitimate use of flash in websites that I’ve seen in a while.

I use SWFUpload in a few sites to get multiple file uploads and upload progess bars. It’s pretty slick.

The SWFUpload project has a beta release out that can work with Flash 10. Here’s the basic changes required in your code to work with the 2.2.0 betas:

Right above your html that contains a button to trigger the file picker:

You will want to give your button a fixed width and height.

Add the following CSS rules:

.swfupload {
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1;
}

And finally, add the following options to your SWFUpload settings object:

     button_placeholder_id : "spanButtonPlaceholder",
    button_width: 100,
    button_height: 40,
    button_window_mode: SWFUpload.WINDOW_MODE.TRANSPARENT,
    button_cursor: SWFUpload.CURSOR.HAND,

This adds a transparent flash object over your html button that is the same size. Flash traps the click over your button and triggers the file picker from flash itself. Ironically, this work around for the tighter security restrictions in Flash 10 seems like a compete security risk in inself…

Pat wrote about fixing the flash 10 issue with the YUI libraries.

Looking towards the future

Mike — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:48:58 +0000

Specifically the next 24 hours.

2008 Electoral Vote Estimate

2004 Electoral Vote Estimate

I don’t see this presidential election being as close as 2004.