I revised the Javascript today so the trigger is handled differently and IE hovers. Both IE and Safari are giving me grief in different ways; atleast Firefox is rendering as it should.
I’ve rewritten the javascript to be cleaner and faster. The update also includes bookmarkable urls and smart anchors. Now I need to start on the content.
It’s in VB.net, which kinda isn’t my language of choice. The object holds our weather data in a read only list in application memory which repopulates itself every 30 mins. Pretty simple, but still nice to complete.
I registered and setup a simple webpage for my portfolio at jasonmulligan.com. This is essentially v0.1 and will be fleshed out to be much more stylish.
I started off the week with a nice breakfast at The Leutinent’s Pump near Jen’s place with Jen, Marc and Shannon. After we ate we walked around for a bit to kill time for some baked goods at a bakery Marc liked. Later that night I started working on something work related; I’m not sure what it was now because I’ve been doing late nights for almost 2 weeks trying to wrap up a few projects that were held up. Those are complete now, which is great ’cause I need to unwind this weekend.
I processed pics from last Friday / Saturday this morning. Generally I like how they turned out but I’m noticing my camera is underexposing with the flash on it. The common Pentax issue. Regardless, I got some keepers.
I don’t really have much to say other than Jen’s coming back from her East Coast trip tomorrow; and I’m looking forward to seeing her.
I was on vacation a week ago and spent the majority of it inside due to rain, so I decided to address some ergonomics issues with my work area. After a few days of consideration I had come to the conclusion that a business laptop would be the best course of action.
This let me use my trusty desktop box in the living room as a HTPC (home theatre pc). I setup the file support for Media Center so I can watch anything I download, which is very very nice to work with. So nice infact that I decided to call up Rogers for their analog cable service. If I have a good HTPC, I atleast want to catch the Power Block on SpikeTV (weekends). Since that has been taken care of, my only addition in the near future will be an LG combo Bluray/HDDVD/DVD rom drive so I can watch my HDDVDs and occassionally rent a Bluray movie if I want to mix things up.
Back to the laptop. I had gotten a pretty nice, low end Compaq model that was based on Intel’s 965 mobile platform. After I had setup all the software, and spent a few days doing work on it (this past week) I decided to calibrate the screen. It turns out the X3100 GPU from Intel can’t hold a color profile. It’s a design “flaw” or “feature” depending how you look at it; either way Intel decided to go non-standard with this chipset which gimped it for me.
Returned.
I picked up a new AMD based Toshiba laptop last night. So far, so good. I decided to go with a 17″ screen. I think the slight increase in resolution and desktop area will be beneficial for work.
I think it’s rather lame to call attention to having a design lifted, and then steal a very distinct type for use on your own clothes without so much as changing it a little.
Onetwentysix’s blog entry has examples. In my opinion it clearly shows how someone (who probably submitted the work to Johnny Cupcakes) took a few of his hand drawn examples which have been on flickr for quite awhile and slightly modified a few letters; and put it all together.
Jon almost did the font for my neck tat, but he didn’t have enough time to meet my nearly instant deadline. He suggested the pimp font I wear now. His work is too unique to be stolen, it’s easily recognizable as his.
Last night I finally caught a hockey game. Detroit was rocking the Penguins pretty good all game. I’m looking forward to the next meeting.
Work has been pretty good lately. With that recent audit things seem to be shifting towards the direction I was hoping we were going in.
Tonight is ‘movie night’ with Jen. I’m not sure what we’re going to watch, but it should be fun anyway.
An audit came back and it validated everything I said about a hellish project from last summer. Feels good, cause I added info to it that makes things look even better for me.
After an amazing beginning to the week I decided to work from home during the last 2 days. I should’ve done laundry. Out of socks and going back to the office today. Lovely.
