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Races & Results

Published on 2016-07-18 16:53:52
A list of races I am planning to race, or have finished with the results.

From Couch to Qualify

Published on 2016-07-11 23:17:42
I just have to share this. I am a middle-aged (is 45 middle-aged?) guy looking to adopt an active lifestyle and do something just for myself. I took up running and recently added duathlon races. I thi

Office Pong

Published on 2014-12-23 11:24:15
One of the guys here in the office brought in a Christmas tree and suggested we all add to the decorating with computer stuff. Cables, disks, mice, etc. We we have another guy that has collected a lot

Newsletter

Published on 2014-02-23 20:35:02
Stay up to date. I may not blog regularly so when I do you will want to know. #amirite? We also will contact you to bring your our show notes from the show “The Excerpt”. Our newsletter de

Live Life

Published on 2014-02-20 10:03:47
There I was, happily cruising through my twitter feed and I came across another gem from @TheBlogess and the reply is even better. I had this ruminating in my brain for a few weeks and when my office

Modern CSS, HTML Keeps Moving Forward.

Published on 2014-02-17 20:56:51
As we all know, the only constant in life is change, and the world of HTML, CSS and JS is moving along very nicely. Illustrating this, we have many great web sites now that operate so well they work l

Plugins

Published on 2014-02-14 22:24:30
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Footnotes by Bigfoot, plugin by WP-Bigfoot

Published on 2014-02-04 16:25:32
Footnotes are all the rage Whether the author wants to include an afterthought, additional observations, commentary, etc. everyone publishing on the web seem to be adding these footnotes. Some example

A BASH function that should be built-in.

Published on 2014-01-28 16:52:22
The create directory command, cd, is one of those commands that I use almost every day on the command line. I realized after listening to a recent podcast [footnote]Pretty much any Back to Work episod

The Beetle

Published on 2014-01-22 16:09:15
I saw a poster series somewhere in my internet travels and today during my lunch break at work I wanted to do “something creative”. I decided to make my own version of a vintage Beetle pos

Bebas Neue - Font - Free Download

Published on 2014-01-20 14:39:49
New font that is free to download. I love the shot of the document that says ” If in doubt use Helvetica Bebas” Cheeky. And a nice alternative, to be sure.   Bebas Neue - Font via Beb

Some John Deere History - The LittleTractor Blog

Published on 2014-01-20 12:31:57
I love seeing photos of old buildings from the past with the current use of the building. suddenly this became visible\"¦ via Some John Deere History - The LittleTractor Blog.

OS walk through history \"“ in your browser

Published on 2014-01-18 15:51:30
This is a cool collection of where to find and load up classic versions of Mac OS and Windows OS. I have used and/or supported most of these operating systems. Some still feel useful even today. But t

Simbol

Published on 2014-01-18 15:32:10
This is a great app to get all those crazy text symbols that are surprisingly needed often for anyone that texts a lot or wants to create quick math equations. I have found it useful right away. ύ

WordPress Development Made a Little Easier

Published on 2013-12-24 11:43:56
Found this article and decided to give it a go. Wow, setting up a development environment with VirtualBox and Vagrant was quite easy. I had to fix up my Homebrew install because I haven’t gotte

ish.

Published on 2013-12-20 20:49:02
ish. yet another viewport resizer.. This makes so much sense, when there are so many screen sizes the viewport needs to be a range of sizes. Maybe there are other resizers, but this is one seems to ma

YXE Traffic

Published on 2013-12-19 15:31:42
I live in a fast growing city and the traffic seems to be getting worse everyday. New roads are being constructed but, as it turns out, not everyone has figured out the way to get around on these new

So These are the new Domains

Published on 2013-11-29 11:33:50
New TLD’s are coming soon. I don’t know about you, but my.plumbing might be hard to explain to anyone who still insists they have to add “www.” to everything.

Forebruary

Published on 2013-10-30 23:00:23
An excellent calendar that can produce any month. Forebruary.

HERE IS TODAY

Published on 2013-04-30 08:50:47
Very Cool. Indeed.   HERE IS TODAY.

Google Street View Hyperlapse - Labs - Teehan+Lax

Published on 2013-04-15 10:21:07
This looks like a fun tool that might be quite useful… 🙂 Google Street View Hyperlapse - Labs - Teehan+Lax. Hyper-lapse photography \"“ a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping camera moveme

A soldiers eye: rediscovered pictures from Vietnam

Published on 2013-04-02 22:34:12
\"Charlie Haughey shot nearly 2,000 images between March 1968 and May 1969 before taking the negatives home. And there they sat, out of sight, but not out of mind, for 45 years, until a chance meeting

Hex Color Tool

Published on 2013-04-01 13:27:32
This looks like an awesome tool for finding variations of a colour in web design. Hex Color Tool.  

The Super Supercapacitor - Brian Golden Davis on Vimeo

Published on 2013-03-24 16:13:38
Carbon-based super-fast charging batteries discovered by accident… Some of the best things are little surprises 🙂 The Super Supercapacitor - Brian Golden Davis on Vimeo on Vimeo

Striking & Free Techno and Sci-Fi Fonts

Published on 2013-03-21 13:33:21
Some times it is just fun to use these types of fonts for a project…   a collection of 30 awesome techno and sci-fi fonts for you to download and use in your projects. Wanna know the best p

New Record Setting Wind Turbine

Published on 2013-03-21 09:07:19
http://node1.ecogeek-cdn.net/ecogeek/images/stories/turbinerecord2013.jpg New Record Setting Wind Turbine.

Big Octo Prop Drone

Published on 2013-03-21 09:05:43
Listen to this thing! Golf Channel Is Using A Drone To Film Golfers – Business Insider.

Audi R8 V10

Published on 2013-03-15 11:10:33
Little vid. Car has the back end off so you can see  the beast within the beauty. Paddle shifters few sher.

National Geographic Found

Published on 2013-03-11 12:36:44
FOUND is a curated collection of photography from the National Geographic archives. In honor of our 125th anniversary, we are showcasing photographs that reveal cultures and moments of the past. Many

.: FLASH VS HTML :.

Published on 2013-03-08 09:26:22
The site itself is very nice. Then you get to play a game in either Flash or HTML5. Since I have Flash disabled on my computer I chose the HTML5 version. It played very well and was completely respons

The Fletcher Capstan Table

Published on 2013-03-07 10:48:55
This table is just so awesome on so many levels (if I had a dime for every time…). The Fletcher Capstan Table – YouTube.

Paperkit – printable graph paper template

Published on 2013-03-06 14:39:52
Do you ever need some graph/dotted/lined paper for a quick drawing or wireframe? Give this a try.   With Paperkit you can easily generate online the exact type of graph paper (grid paper) that yo

Enzo rally styles

Published on 2013-03-05 14:15:55
Hahahaha TAXTHRICH. Thats rich…  The Ferrari Enzo WRC – YouTube.

This posting needs no caption.

Published on 2013-03-04 09:40:26
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timeRemap

Published on 2013-02-28 22:45:00
This video made me smile. Cool effect… timeRemapExportHD on Vimeo on Vimeo

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites…

Published on 2013-02-28 19:52:06
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, t

color.hailpixel.com · Swatch you doing?

Published on 2013-02-25 09:18:23
This is an interesting way to figure out a colour scheme. Click on the screen when you have a colour you like. Keep clicking and you will get them all for comparison. Nice. color.hailpixel.com · Swat

The Fuji X100 Digital Camera Real World

Published on 2013-02-21 20:54:26
My office mate has put the idea of this camera in my head. It looks like the perfect carry around or even portrait camera. Now I need to add it to my xmas wish list! Fuji seemed to have listened to wh

HTML5 Document Embedding

Published on 2013-02-20 09:54:45
This sounds like a service that will be indispensable — if it works as advertised. Crocodoc converts PDF and Office documents to HTML so they can be easily embedded into web and mobile applicati

Spitfire Overhead

Published on 2013-02-14 14:58:50
Wait for it…wait for it.  More like Spit”mypants”fire.

Make clouds with CSS 3D

Published on 2013-02-13 15:45:29
This is an awesome demo of the power of “simple” CSS3.   HOW TO MAKE CLOUDS WITH CSS 3D A tutorial on how to use CSS 3D Transforms to create sprite-based 3D-like clouds like these one

Mac OSX UNIX Tutorial for Beginners

Published on 2013-02-13 13:20:40
If you always wanted to learn how to use Mac OS X Unix, here is a good tutorial to start out Mac OS X UNIX Tutorial for Beginners UNIX Tutorial for Beginners  

Five Floors Of Fury

Published on 2013-02-11 14:52:03
Skiing Through An Abandoned Building. Continuing with the recent deluge of skiing videos we have been posting, lpease find this courtesy of The Adventure Blog (whom thank infamous “The Goat̶

One Thing Well

Published on 2013-02-08 14:03:51
Histo: Plot charts in the terminal with arbitrary streaming or non-streaming data. via One Thing Well.

The jet powered beer cooler

Published on 2013-02-08 13:15:42
Seriously? Nuff said. The jet powered beer cooler. If you really want to see some neat stuff, check this guys MGB rebuild (pay special attention to his steampunk Google Maps), and his TARDIS MAME Cons

Cortex Camera – Berkeley Sunset

Published on 2013-02-08 09:01:32
Awesome low light photos from your iPhone. Cortext Camera on iTunes Cortex Camera combines dozens of individual photos to create a single high quality and noise free image. It aligns them in real time

TOP GEAR: SMALLEST CAR IN THE WORLD redux

Published on 2013-02-06 16:24:10
If you like this one you should probably check out the test drive they did of the P50 (the former world’s smallest car). Top Gear is constantly good.

Responsive Design Bookmarklet

Published on 2013-02-06 11:57:31
Responsive Design Bookmarklet a handy tool for responsive design testing via Responsive Design Bookmarklet.

1/4 Increments

Published on 2013-02-06 11:52:13
OS X – Adjust the volume in 1/4 increments with shift+alt+volume keys. via Little Big Details.

ThinkGeek :: Red Shirt

Published on 2013-02-05 15:02:07
If you find yourself on the surface of a planet amongst Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, you probably don’t need to worry about whether or not you left the iron on. via ThinkGeek :: Red Shirt.

Here comes the king!

Published on 2013-02-05 14:40:08
“You neva see us smilin…” Here Comes The King by Snoop Lion on Grooveshark

Form Follows Function

Published on 2013-02-05 09:16:28
Site of the day and verified timewaster…errrr professional development experiential learning. This HTML5 stuff is just getting better and better. Form Follows Function.

National Post infographics

Published on 2013-01-29 14:52:28
This strong body of National Post based infographics showed up in my twitter feed today.  The Iran Stoning outline and Dextre Canada Arm ones captured my attention outright. Lot’s of good stuff

Best 404 page yet

Published on 2013-01-28 10:49:01
If you have to get a 404 page, you might as well have some fun in the meantime. Développeur Web sur Lille (59), Romain Brasier..

A wicked gallery of the SR-71 Blackbird

Published on 2013-01-23 14:36:24
58.83 km per minute.  Just a cool gallery of images.  Note the first image has a double bubble cockpit. Upon further research this was the trainer jet, and the second bubble is the trainer seat. The

Sheep World Sheep

Published on 2011-02-06 20:25:47
Sheep World Sheep, originally uploaded by jonathanbird.

Found

Published on 2010-06-23 16:18:42
Found, originally uploaded by jonathanbird.

I like beer

Published on 2010-06-05 19:31:45
I like beer, originally uploaded by — KORGAN —.

Mac Mailbox :)

Published on 2009-11-21 23:35:49
Mac Mailbox of the Day: Spotted in Te Atatu, Auckland. via The Daily What.

The Daily What

Published on 2009-11-11 14:21:00
The life of feet.[via.] via The Daily What.

OpenOfficeMouse

Published on 2009-11-06 20:47:51
via: Daring Fireball09-11-06 3:46 PM John Gruber The OpenOffice.org open source community has designed their own mouse. It has 18 buttons. This is apparently not a joke.

Galleries With This Photo on Flickr

Published on 2009-09-30 20:27:31
Galleries With This Photo on Flickr. Galleries is a new feature of Flickr and one of my photos has been chosen for a gallery. Fun.

ignore the code: Nobody Reads your Dialog Boxes

Published on 2009-09-24 16:04:52
October 31, 2008 Nobody Reads your Dialog Boxes «My paper's due tomorrow, but my PC won't print, what do I do now?» «What do you mean, it won't print? What happened?» «Well, I clicked on print, but no

The Great Wall editing

Published on 2009-09-01 21:46:15
Excerpt from: LÚZ GALLERY + WORKSHOPS – BLOG! – The Great Wall. Intriguing and simple concept. The Great Wall Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 10:08PM “Editing and sequencing have alw

Snow Leopard

Published on 2009-08-27 22:16:31
Snow Leopard, originally uploaded by NatalieManuel.

Dandelion macro

Published on 2009-08-27 22:13:43
Dandelion macro, originally uploaded by LaurentBatailley.

Douglas C-47B Dakota

Published on 2009-08-27 21:58:04
Douglas C-47B Dakota, originally uploaded by jonathanbird.

North Hagley Park Fog

Published on 2009-08-27 21:56:20
North Hagley Park Fog, originally uploaded by jonathanbird.

Ellen 41

Published on 2009-08-27 21:28:54
Ellen 41, originally uploaded by Dana Lane Photography.

New in Camera HDRI

Published on 2009-05-28 13:23:13
This is very interesting.   Adorama Learning Center – The Pentax K-7: The era of in-camera High Dynamic Range Imaging has arrived . Â

Wolfram-Alpha

Published on 2009-05-17 15:59:45
Wolfram-Alpha. Calculate anything. ? cool

Auxiliary Brain

Published on 2009-03-22 16:27:58
Many, many people have collections of things they would like to remember and or share. The Internet seems to have brought these two things together. For better or worse, online journals/memory box/c

About

Published on 2009-03-22 14:54:22
Hi. Thanks for stopping by. I have this little collection of things that I want to store and or share. I may post excerpts or photographs that inspire or interest me.   Most recently I have begun

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