Toyota Simulator ∞

While all the hub-bub about Toyota cars having accelerator problems is fresh in everyone’s minds, I wanted to share this video. Pretty funny in a sick kinda way. I’m saddened by all of the families affected by the problem and this is a serious problem, so I’m not making light of the situation. I just think the video is funny, so please don’t read into this post any further than plain humor. If you’re offended by this video, I apologize in advance.

Jay

Dancing KC Cop ∞

I can honestly say that being a prior police officer, I never danced in front of my camera. I made a few funny faces to test it out but never danced. This is pretty good though…

Dancing KC Cop ∞

I can honestly say that being a prior police officer, I never danced in front of my camera. I made a few funny faces to test it out but never danced. This is pretty good though…

Lego Superheroes ∞

Chances are, if you’re a geek you probably have at some point played with Legos. Heck maybe you still do but that’s cool because I know people in their 30’s who still play with Legos. If you’re a Lego fan, you’ll be interested in the Lego Superheroes that I found at ComicsAlliance.com. Enjoy!

Hat tip to ComicsAlliance.com for the uber cool photos.

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-29 ∞

• Tuesday is almost over…yay #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-29 ∞

• Tuesday is almost over…yay #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-28 ∞

• I hate DR appointments they make me feel old anymore #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-09 ∞

• Reading @blinkinblogs: This is ridiculous! –Let Them Eat Cake! http://bit.ly/zOzlq #


• New post: http://bit.ly/13ArbA #


• why did I decide to wear a long sleeve shirt today…yuck! #


• building a new website for an excellent charity called ShadowBuddies.org to be released soon #

Tuesday Thoughts – Web Design & CSS ∞

In this day and age, there is more focus on great web design than just pure functionality. In the early days of the Web, we saw websites that weren’t exactly masterpieces in the art world sense, but they were highly functional (at the time). Now we fastforward to 2009 and the trend we’re seeing is a high focus on the aesthetics of web design rather than just how the site functions. In my humble opinion, this is an excellent thing due to advancements in not only the web technologies or coding languages being utilized.

My favorite coding language, if you will, being a designer, is CSS or Cascading Style Sheets. This allows designers to design to their heart’s content knowing that with CSS all those fancy designs can become reality. I, like many of you, design and code my own websites. This gives me a better insight into any possible limitations of design and the actual code going behind the code. This also allows me to design, code and place that code into various popular CMS or content management systems for easy updates to the website. CMS usage allows me to build more websites, faster because I don’t always have to manually manipulate the code to change content as we had to do years ago with pure static sites.

Just about anything you could dream up can become reality using the right technology and it’s all right at our fingertips, literally.

Netscape founder, Marc Andreessen backs new browser ∞

That is correct. If you haven’t gotten the news from TechCrunch, Mashable or any of the other tech or social media type sites out there already, I’ll fill you in on this little ditty. Marc Andreessen, founder of the once popular browser Netscape case strapped his thinking hat back on and is now backing a new browser called RockMelt. There are no Alpha or Beta releases as of this posting but they should be out later this year according to Andreessen.

Andreessen said earlier this summer that he was backing the new RockMelt browser citing:

“There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch.”

Someone please explain to me why we need yet another browser to jack-with and test staging sites on before they role out to production and become live sites.

I’d just be extremely happy if my least favorite browser IE, which I affectionately call Internet Exploder would dry up and go away.

Feature Length Movies On YouTube ∞

Ok, I know I haven’t posted since before the Independence Day celebrations but I do have good reason for that. You see, I was kidnapped by some..um..angry badgers. Yeah, ginomous angry badgers and…oh, who am I foolin? I’ve been preoccupied with other shtuff! Anyway I’ve got some big guns just in case we ever do have an attack of ginormous angry badgers and I WILL use them. In fact, I’ll just call Chuck Norris and he’ll take care of my light work for me.

On to another topic. Now I may be way behind the game here but I just realized the other day that Youtube now has full-length feature movies on their site. Oh yeah! You know you dig the Karate Kid

Huh? Huh? Yeah, I thought so. And what about Bruce Lee? That’s right! Bruce F-ing Lee! I couldn’t embed that one… Punks!

Jay's Portfolio ∞