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Joshua picked up the habit a few days ago of saying “Dad” in this long drawn-out way as if he’s exasperated or embarassed by my behavior. Say it out loud now with the proper dip in pitch in the middle to see what I mean: “Daaaa-aaad”. What’s even funnier is that sometimes his D’s are softer, more like T’s and his A’s sometimes sound a bit like O’s. Thus, sometimes it sounds like my one-year old son is admonishing someone named “Todd”….

Netscape is back with a Beta browser based on Firefox 1.0: http://browser.netscape.com/nsb/

My rant about Acrobat Reader made me think a bit about user interfaces and designing improvements. Click To Read More...

LOL! What do you get when you combine Superfriends and Office Space? Apparently, you get this. Headphones required while at work…Check out Aquaman’s “O” face.

Thanks to Jerry Beck from Cartoon Brew for this link…Enjoy!

I used to love Hotmail for its convenience, but is it just me or has Hotmail really become sucky lately? Even though they recently gave everybody a large amount of message space (250 MB I think), to compete with Gmail, I’ve begun to experience numerous problems with the rest of the service. Click To Read More...

I used to have a lot of respect for Adobe. Back in the mid-to-late 90s, Adobe FrameMaker was seriously considered a leading desktop publishing tool, Adobe Photoshop was the premiere choice for image editing, and Adobe’s Acrobat Reader was a great little piece of free software (at a time when not much professional-quality software was downloadable for free). However, time has not been kind to the Acrobat Reader. Click To Read More...

I just spent the last few nights working on the user-interface code of this SDL 2D strategy game that I’m working on. It’s finally come together nicely now. Click To Read More...