Transparent PNGs in Exploder

A friend asked me about getting PNG alpha transparency to work in Internet Explorer. To do this, you should go to this website and save the javascript parts of the “view source” of the page you want into a separate file.

Chicken Breast Dijon

“You tell nice stories, and sorry to hear about your mom.” It’s been almost seven years now, so that didn’t really bother me until a couple hours later, as I was driving home, I realized how much I missed sharing stories with her. I fell into a funk. It is said that Irma Rombauer wrote […]

A body is meant to be seen…

Seen while getting some brandy for my apples… A body is meant to be seen… Safeway, Sunnyvale, California Lumix DMC-LX1 unprocessed raw 1/13 sec @ f/2.8, iso 200, 6.3mm (28mm) “Like the starlet, a bottle of good Merlot is generally soft, sensuous, and uncomplicated—offering the ripe, jammy fullness of a fine Cabernet Sauvingnon without its […]

Random thoughts on my way to lunch

About 10 years ago, the radio stations started playing 80’s music over lunch. Shouldn’t they start playing 90’s music? I mean there are only so many times I can listen to Electric Avenue. Corollary: I need to find a new radio station. That, or remember to bring my iPod. Never have anything electronic clipped to […]

Appletini

I got some new martini glasses today. As soon as I unpacked them, I washed them and put them in the freezer. Dave suggested I try to make some apple martinis with them. I try every drink on myself before subjecting anyone else to them, so a quick stop to BevMo, and I find my […]

Krugle

At ZendCon during one of my “wander around in a nice inebriated stupor while supposedly maybe promising M— that I’d go see Facebook’s API talk” times, I ended up at the Krugle booth and talked to Mel Badgett their V.P. of Product Management, which quite frankly, was much more interesting than learning about an API […]

YUI headscratcher

In the Yahoo! User Interface Library, what is the difference between YAHOO.util.Dom.getX();YAHOO.util.Dom.GetY() and YAHOO.util.DragDropMgr.getPosX();YAHOO.util.DragDropMgr.getPosY()?