Archive for February, 2009
Could a Web Designer Marry an IE6 User?
To many of my regular readers, it is no secret that I recently got engaged. I am very excited to be getting married. Kayla, my fiancé, is a genuinely nice person who also happens to be smart, fun, and beautiful. In preparation for getting married we are doing pre-marital counseling. In pre-marital counseling hot topics [...]
Our VoiceTales Beta Has Launched
Some of you know I been working on a project for quite some time. VoiceTales is an online voice recording service targeted at the average user . The goal of VoiceTales is to make voice recording, storytelling, and podcasting easy for the general public. Don’t have a microphone? That’s ok, VoiceTales uses the telephone to [...]
PHP Remove Non ASCII Characters from a String
I hate the stupid odd characters that sometimes seem to magically appear from nowhere in text. Some call the odd characters, some call them special characters, I call them non ASCII characters but whatever you call them they are inconvenient. Often they come along with text pasted into a content management system from Microsoft Word. [...]
Please Papyrus Don’t Hurt ‘Em
Have you ever heard of Papyrus? If you don’t recognize the name of the font I am sure you have seen it in use. It is the most overused font in the history of the universe. It is used everywhere! I have always wondered about the history of Papyrus. Was it hatched from an alien [...]