“America’s Next Muppet” mini-series in development
Now the Muppets are working on their latest gig, putting together their own “reality� television contest called “America’s Next Muppet�.
Or, perhaps more importantly, who you shouldn’t listen to, when it comes to software development.
Kathy Sierra posted a good article on her blog recently about the various types of people who will make change requests for applications you develop, and suggests some approaches for sorting through the noise.
X3, tomorrow night.
PS - I’m already starting this one off with a gripe. From the trailers I’ve seen, the Juggernaut looks more like a regular size guy, whereas in the comics, he’s supposed to be abnormally large. Granted, various artists have drawn him differently over the years, but he’s usually quite a bit bigger than average people, as opposed to just looking like a regular guy with a big helmet on. News flash: it’s 2006 - use CGI.
I’m still optimistic that the movie will be good anyway, though.
The cruise was great… more to say later, but for now you can see the pictures.
I set up a Flickr group that we will all be adding our photos to.
I’m really wondering how Akismet could possibly not catch this as spam:
Luckily I only use it as part of a larger spam prevention system, so it didn’t slip by.
I’m not sure what it is about Kinko’s that seems to absolutely prevent them from getting a print job done right the first time. For the program for Kristi’s thing today, they messed up the order and she barely got the corrected prints for it by this afternoon in time for the ceremony.
It’s been my experience that no matter how good you make the online ordering or project management systems, no matter what lengths you go to in producing a set of instructions that a five year old kid could understand, in the end, it usually just comes down to people not paying attention to them and doing it wrong.
On paper (no pun intended), Kinko’s could dominate the mom & pop / small press printing market, and even expand into taking big commercial jobs away from the competition. They’ve got all the right equipment & resources (at potentially better negotiated deals with vendors than anyone else due to volume), the right network of physical locations across the country, with a healthy balance of storefront shops and central production facilities that they can send large orders to. But, unfortunately, after a long history of this type of work, they are widely regarded (at least by almost all the people I’ve talked to) as having a reputation for poor quality.
We went to Kristi’s “pinning ceremony” (nursing school graduation type event) tonight, and celebrated all of her hard work in becoming a nurse. Since she’s probably too humble to brag about it herself, I’d like to point out that she won (I’m pretty sure) every single available award, including the “single best 4.0 GPA student / over-achiever in the whole class” award (I don’t remember the exact name, but you get the idea).
Now it’s time for a cruise to celebrate!
Just thought I’d bring this up here to find out what people think about it.
Even you non-techie people have probably heard about this in the news lately, but in case you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll give a brief overview of what it means (at least my understanding of it). Some people (or more accurately, companies, specifically large ones and internet service providers [ISPs - from here on out]) would like to start giving certain types of internet traffic from certain sites/domains higher priority than other traffic. The company that wants their content delivered to the customers more quickly can pay the ISP to increase the priority of their traffic, and it would then get more bandwidth allocated than some site that will not (or cannot) pay a similar fee. Proponents of “net neutrality” want to get a law passed that would prevent the ISPs from doing this. Read More »
With the recent discussion of CSS style rules and quirks, I thought I’d mention one of my favorite CSS features that I’ve been making a lot of use of recently: multiple class selectors.
This is one CSS2 addition that isn’t mentioned much in CSS books (at least that I’ve seen), although most recent browsers do support it - all the “good” ones and IE, too. 
According to the specification, you can apply multiple class attributes to any element, separated by spaces, such as:
<h1 class="title special">Test</h1>, which is useful, because then you can have separate rule definitions for title and special which you can share with any other elements on the page. If you think about it, this can serve to dramatically reduce duplication in your style sheets.
In addition, you can specify rules that only apply to elements where both classes are specified, for further control & flexibility.
So, for example, here is some code that demonstrates this: Read More »
In a rare non-technical, non-political post, I thought I’d let you know that my iron was not working today. Actually, it hasn’t been working for a couple days now, but I’ve just been getting by with wearing shirts and pants that don’t necessarily need to be ironed before you wear them, but the situation was exacerbated today, because I was down to having only clean clothes remaining that require ironing. So, I’m wearing a wrinkly shirt today.
PS - Don’t even think about saying that this post is still technical because of the iron malfunction; it’s probably as close as it’s going to get.
