Don’t Mess with the Designer

March 26, 2008
Don’t Mess with the Designer

So I asked my trusty (design, etc.) collaborator Johnny Rodgers to mock up some business cards. As usual, he did some great work, but I mentioned that maybe the logo could be a bit bigger. He promptly responded with a link to Make My Logo Bigger Cream. Don’t mess with the designer.

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Windows IE on Mac

February 22, 2008
Windows IE on Mac

Anyone who does web development on Mac has a major thorn in his or her USB port: how to test content for the way 4 out of 5 people see it in Windows Internet Explorer (may Mac Internet Explorer rest permanently in peace). Since Mac moved to Intel chips, there are excellent virtualization solutions...

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Language Games

February 14, 2008
Language Games

Stephen Ramsay, Digital Humanist extraordinaire, posted a blog entry about wanting to learn Groovy, and made a comment about Java being the predominant language in Digital Humanities. I posted a comment indicating that scripting languages like PHP and Perl seem to me to be more common, for noteworthy cultural reasons, like the availability of...

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Adobe insensitive to more than just case

February 1, 2008
Adobe insensitive to more than just case

The Adobe CS3 Master Collection is a treasure chest of well-respected applications for graphic design (Photoshop and Illustrator), video editing (Premiere and After Effects), web authorship (Dreamweaver and Fireworks), and various other useful tools (like Acrobat Pro). All these goodies don’t come cheaply, of course: the regular version is $2,500 USD, though the academic...

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Research Projects

November 18, 2007
Research Projects

Given the recent irregularity of my blog posts, I don’t imagine there are a lot of regular visitors to my site, but those who do visit occasionally might have noticed that I’ve finally removed my “temporary message” claiming that I’d be filling in additional contents within the next few days (I had added the...

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Leopard Mosaic Screensaver

November 12, 2007
Leopard Mosaic Screensaver

I try not to think of myself as a Mac nut, but sometimes it’s hard to ignore the evidence, like the irrepressible urge to upgrade immediately when Leopard was released. I had no specific reasons to upgrade, aside from a vague sense that there would be a few enhancements, and the desire to be...

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