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JavaScript OS X and a Joke

Here’s one of the most impressive sites I’ve seen yet. http://osx.portraitofakite.com/ Someday I’d like to make something like that, and make it interactive. Humor IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR SQUIRRELS PANEXA has been known in a few cases (0.0087%) to cause Excessively Floppy Tail Syndrome (EFTS). If you are a squirrel, and suspect you may be suffering…Continue Reading…

AIM Mail Icon

I didn’t realize what this icon was until I enlarged it. It was really bothering me because it was a flashing image on top of my AIM icon in the tray area of the taskbar. I couldn’t figure out what it was, but it kept blinking, so I became to determined to figure it out….Continue Reading…

The String Class and cin.ignore()

So much programming to learn, so little time. I read about The String class online, but even though we use g++, I couldn’t get z = upcase(x) to work. I learned that I can’t do cin.ignore(1000,’\n’) unless I’m sure that I’ve requested input, because otherwise it stops the user until 1000 characters or \n (newline…Continue Reading…

Interactive Radio

I just started using Yahoo Radio (LaunchCast) for the first time. I am very impressed. A lot of work went into this. And I don’t think they make much money from it. It’s really amazing: you have a wide selection of artists and music, and you can rate the songs, albums, artists and genres for…Continue Reading…

What’s Newsvine?

I joined Newsvine several weeks ago, and I had thought to myself, “What is this?” It just looked like a news website that connected people. But it’s a bit more than it appears. Scott McDaniel puts it this way: Newsvine.com is sort of like AP News + Digg + del.icio.us + blogging + chatting +…Continue Reading…

Small world

I forgot the name of a song that we sang in HEAT (TCF) tonight, so I typed all that I could remember of the lyrics into Google (using “quotes” where I could). First hit is the PowerPoint presentation at my home church, the Evangelical Free Church of Walnut. We don’t have a very elaborate website,…Continue Reading…