Flyover Country

I’ve become something of a photography whore over the past few months. It started with a Digital SLR, and has moved to horribly expensive lenses, a burning desire to spend far too much money on lighting equipment, and an unholy fascination with framing everything I see.
In any case, some of my friends and [...]

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One year ago today, I posted a list of predictions for 2007. Let’s see how I did:

Apple will release a new UI with Mac OS X 10.5 that is reminiscent of iTunes 7, and I will spend the rest of the year slagging it. - Thankfully, no. Apple did extend the god-awful iTunes 7 look [...]

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Looking for the missing Capistrano recipes for Rails and Nginx from http://jonmagic.com/assets/2007/2/21/jonmagic_recipes.txt? No need to fret: The Internet Wayback Machine actually did what it was supposed to for once, and cached the file.
Also, the nginx.conf file can be found there too.

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Dan Tynan of PC World just awarded Office 2007 with a big lump of coal as part of PC World’s 15 biggest technological disappointments of 2007 awards. I’m severely disappointed in this, especially given that the stated rationale is that the Ribbon sucks:
Ribbon schmibbon. We’ll take the classic menus, please.
The only thing I [...]

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Steven Hodson and Long Zheng wrote yesterday about whether Microsoft is becoming less open and transparent than they were a few years ago: the post-Robert Scoble era, as he put it. Apparently, a new position entitled Director of Windows Client Disclosure has been created to “define the communications agenda” and set the disclosure plan for [...]

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I discovered Oscar Alexander’s tutorial on snazzy HTML rounded buttons a while back, but needed it for something just a minute ago. It’s a fantastically easy way to create really attractive link buttons without much work and without using Javascript. Of course, you’ll need to clutter up your DOM with an extra span. This might [...]

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A while back, I created a table detailing every system color from every official Windows theme in existence. I keep moving or misplacing this page for some reason, but the link below works:
Windows System Colors Table

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I’ve been using MooTools for the past month on a personal project, and I couldn’t be happier. In my new job, I’ve been boning up on my Prototype skillz. I certainly don’t mind Prototype, although I do find it to be a little heavy. The one thing that has been bugging me was the apparent [...]

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