http://blog.mikejestes.com Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:46:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Summer finally arrived in Bellingham. Yay! Now it's too hot. And the hallway in our apartment is approximately 20 degrees warmer than outside or in our unit. The hallway is probably so damn hot because almost zero air moves through it during the course of a day. The 2 stairwell ... http://blog.mikejestes.com/2008/07/02/trying-to-cool-down-the-hallway/ http://www.isobamapresidentyet.com/ or http://www.isobamapresident.com/ Previously. http://blog.mikejestes.com/2008/06/12/cant-explain-why-i-love-these-sites/ My Dad retired from 30 years as a Federal Employee More retirement photos. We went camping for Kelly's bachelor party More bachelor party photos. Kelly and Katie got married More wedding photos. http://blog.mikejestes.com/2008/06/08/recent-happenings/ I've been testing the super awesome swfupload code for some projects at work.  I have nice progress bars working and you can queue up multiple files.  It's sweet.  I tested out my code in Opera, Firefox, Safari 3, IE 7, etc on Windows and Linux.  Working great. Of course, an hour ... http://blog.mikejestes.com/2008/04/18/flash-for-mac-is-bad-for-your-http_host/ While playing scrabulous online recently, I found myself needing a site to search for words that start or end which what I have in my scrabble letters.  I didn't find anything good so I decided I would write my own. Not sure how to exactly describe the feature, I decided ... http://blog.mikejestes.com/2008/04/16/scrabble-word-search/ A few weeks ago I was thinking about how hilarious it would be to view twitter pages with OMG: prepended to all the messages.  I've had a post-it note attached to my monitor ever since that has 3 words: twitter greasemonkey omg. I present my first greasemonkey script: twitter omg. To be ... http://blog.mikejestes.com/2008/04/06/greasemonkey-script-for-twitter/ I stumbled upon a blog with a random code snippet challenge. Here was the problem at hand: Given a String (x) containing only characters a-z, write a function (f) that returns a base 10 integer, which converts the String as if it were a base 26 numeral. Function f is bijective. I ... http://blog.mikejestes.com/2008/03/17/i-love-code-snippet-challenges/ I've been trying to pay attention to sites that either add a www or remove www from their domain. For example http://www.reddit.com/ turns into http://reddit.com/ or http://cnn.com/ turns into http://www.cnn.com/. I've been defaulting any new domains I setup to remove the www.  Remember,  www. is deprecated. Here's a quick survey of ... http://blog.mikejestes.com/2008/03/14/quick-www-survey/ It's been a year or so since the domains dropped off the face of the Internet (I moved and was too lazy to put them up).  They're back! The Original Belchin' Waffles Zine: http://belchinwaffles.com/ Friend message board (the original twitter, lol): http://friends.belchinwaffles.com/ Douchey party pictures, etc: http://friends.belchinwaffles.com/gallery/ http://blog.mikejestes.com/2008/03/11/belchin-waffles-is-back/ IE 8 beta is out.  Looks like they're making great strides to improve their support for standards.  I love that you can install the beta with out the need to uninstall it when it breaks sites.  I'm hoping they keep the Emulate IE7 button for the final release.  Or somehow ... http://blog.mikejestes.com/2008/03/07/ie-8-beta/