The Day a Ninja Attacked Jeff
No, this isn’t a true story.
I somehow stumbled into this CafePress shop full of merchandise bearing the phrase “The Day a Ninja Attacked Jeff“. And, apparently, it’s promoting an online comic strip of the same name. Weird.
Tray Command Line
Here’s a heads-up on a very simple but useful $10 shareware program that I find handy. It’s called Tray Command Line. It’s pretty simple. You press a “hotkey” and up pops a tiny text field in which you can type in a command. These commands are whatever you define them to be. You can open “Mozilla” just by typing “m”, if you want. You can define “phone” to open up an Excel spreadsheet with a list of office phone numbers.
Most people wouldn’t really see the value in this program, but if you’re like me, working in an environment where you’re constantly opening and closing the same applications over and over again, it’s actually a LOT faster than even clicking on a “toolbar” button. Sure, you could do something with the Windows command line, and batch files and aliases and all that, but this is a much faster and elegant way to combine the user-friendliness of the point-and-click Windows world with the hardcore productivity benefits of the efficient command line usage. Give it a try.
Web design myth debunked
For a long time now, it’s been “common knowledge” in web design that you can’t put DHTML layers (well, “divs”) in front of Flash content. This has been a thorn in the side of many designers, because two very common layout elements on a corporate homepage are 1.) A horizonal menu with DHTML dropdown menus and 2.) A big chunk of introductory Flash “above the fold”.
It turns out that this “common knowledge” is actually (at least as of a couple years ago) a complete myth. All it takes is two tiny chunks of code to make pretty much any modern web browser display the menu and Flash animation as desired.
Learn all about it here, and see it in action on the Groove.net home page.
Cuties
GOOG
And they’re off! Google’s public. That means I’m rich, right?
Red Ferret Journal
Just a note about a blog that I’ve become hooked on, “The Red Ferret Journal“. Practically every day, The Ferret posts a link to a “why didn’t I think of that?” gadget that you may (or may not) just have to have. Very entertaining. I’m just not sure about their odd choice of domain name. It sounds like some sort of manhood-enlarging pill.
I am Harold
I am Harold, from “Harold and Maude.” I’m a sensitive, but…weird…soul.
Which Random Cult Movie Character are you?
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Email all Good
My usual email address is fine now. I’ve changed web hosts. I’d make a disparaging remark about the old hosting service, but I still have to migrate some other sites off of their systems. Anyway, Chausse.org is now hosted by HostGator. Can’t say much about them yet, but they seem pretty good so far. Certainly far more professional.
Email all busted
My email’s been down since yesterday morning. I’m kind of peeved about it, and my hosting company is rather pathetic with tech support, unfortunately. I know I haven’t posted in a while, and I hoped to get back into the swing of things with something more interesting, but for now, if you need to email me, try:
jcha usse@gro ove.ne t
(Remove the spaces – that’s just my pathetic attempt at spam-prevention).