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Monthly Archives: April 2005

smoking is bad for you

it’s hazardous to your health and your social life.

Posted bypaulschreiberApril 11, 2005Posted inhumourLeave a comment on smoking is bad for you

a picture is worth a thousand words

nobody’s sure what to do about this “shitty” situation: Legal experts say there is no law against using feces as a flag stand and the federal legal experts say there is no law against using feces as a flag stand and the federal constitution is vague on the issue.

Posted bypaulschreiberApril 11, 2005Posted inhumour, politics1 Comment on a picture is worth a thousand words

real world (X)HTML

Having been developing mostly in a bubble for a few year, I forgot that some people still use Internet Explorer for Windows. (Sheesh, get Firefox already.) Turns out (thanks, Tantek!) that IE6 doesn’t support XHTML. That’s not usually too much of a problem, unless you try and make a previously non-empty tag, like <script> empty. …

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Posted bypaulschreiberApril 9, 2005Posted inwebLeave a comment on real world (X)HTML

(google whoring)

why, y’all should play at the South Muskoka Curling & Golf Club.

Posted bypaulschreiberApril 7, 2005Posted inwebLeave a comment on (google whoring)

some lessons on usability

after i launched my house concerts site, i sent out emails with customized RSVP links to everyone. the next day, i got a bug report that RSVPing “no” wasn’t working. well, it was — sort of. the problem was that even if you clicked “no,” you were still expected to enter the number of seats …

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Posted bypaulschreiberApril 6, 2005Posted inusability, web1 Comment on some lessons on usability

cingular sucking

teli gets shitty customer service from cingular.

Posted bypaulschreiberApril 6, 2005April 6, 2005Posted incustomer service1 Comment on cingular sucking

house concerts web site

i spent a day and change putting together a web site for my house concert series. it’s pretty spiffy, if i do say so myself. among the reasons why: valid XHTML and CSS RSS and iCal feeds clean interface nice URLs (REST, perhaps?) creative commons-licensed

Posted bypaulschreiberApril 5, 2005Posted inmusic, web1 Comment on house concerts web site

date sorting code

i was making a birthday-tracking application, and wanted to be able to do year-insensitive date sorts. i couldn’t find what I was looking for, so I wrote this: int personSortByBirthday (NSCalendarDate *d1, NSCalendarDate *d2, void *context) { int day1 = [d1 dayOfMonth]; int day2 = [d2 dayOfMonth]; int month1 = [d1 monthOfYear]; int month2 = …

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Posted bypaulschreiberApril 4, 2005Posted intech1 Comment on date sorting code

Flickr Related Tag Browser

Flickr Related Tag Browser. go.

Posted bypaulschreiberApril 3, 2005April 3, 2005Posted inweb1 Comment on Flickr Related Tag Browser

canon lens guide

Adam Tow of COBA posted a good list of Canon lenses and notes Patrick Murphy’s comprehensive list and database. for my nikon, i have a 50mm/f1.8, a 17-70/f4.5-5.5 and a sigma 70-300/f4-5.6. since i do a lot of concerts, what i really want is a 20-100/f 1.4. but i can’t imagine such a thing existing …

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Posted bypaulschreiberApril 3, 2005April 3, 2005Posted inphotographyLeave a comment on canon lens guide

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