I’ve sworn off updates until the weekend, because I have a big competition coming up this Friday. Going for the gold 🙂
Category Archives: Personal
Photoshop 7
Photoshop 7 leaked information – the healing brush looks very interesting. I can’t wait to play around with this once it comes out. Thanks to Kel for the tip.
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Programming tip of the day
When evaluating logical operators, put the constant on the left so you have no chance of forgetting that extra =. For example:
if (5 == $id)
{
do stuff
}
Think about it; it’s very logical and if it even saves you a single bug in your code it’s worth it.
“think outside the pretty box”
Jef Raskin is suprising honest in a Business Week article on how Apple should “Think outside the pretty box”. I think his comments that there hasn’t been many fundemental changes in terms of user interface in too long, but you must admit that Apple has done some pretty cool things lately.
journalists pounce
It seems yet another journalist/economist/muckraker has decided to attack Paul Krugman for his alleged involvement with Enron several years ago. I think Krugman’s blanket FAQ covers most of the issues reasonably. If you’re interested in more about Krugman, I suggest his excellent article There’s something about macro
ckone email ads
I faintly remember a year or two ago seeing the ads talked about in this article, but I never actually emailed one of the addresses listed in them. Looking back over the summary of the ad campaign is fascinating, and it has a BMW Films touch to it that it doesn’t directly sell anything, and it doens’t even try to brand, it just is.
Not-so-Safeweb
Safeweb, the anonymous proxy lauded by analysts and given money by the CIA, is inheritly unsecure. Declan McCullagh has good coverage of the issue at Wired.
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Updates? Maybe when school lets up a little. Give me a day or two. There is some really interesting political things going on that I’m going to post about.
Zeldman speaks on Style versus Design
Although it’s not at all new, I try to read this great essay by my favorite designer Jeff Zeldman just to keep my perspective fresh. Today I had a long day, and it just seemed right.
Current screenshots
Don’t think of them as screenshots, think of them as glimpses into my digital existence ;).
Gamebase (desktop)
Portabase (laptop)
sold my soul…
Well after almost a month of procrastination I’ve finally gotten around to signing up for the draft and I feel strangely empty. Maybe it’s just my medicine (good stuff) but putting myself on the list of people to be called on if there’s a war. Of course, technically, we’re in a war against the “axis of evil” as Bush put it, and SSS actually has some interesting comments on that.
You knew it was coming…
Now what sort of self-respecting personal site would this be without pictures of my cat? Above link for index, or read on for the play by play. Real content due soon :). (Just for Emily)
Finally OS5
Wow, finally. The much-vaulted OS5 that everyone has been waiting for, the final departure (hopefully) from the Dragonball-based shackles holding the PalmOS platform down. Or not. Read the article, it’s one of the better ones I’ve seen on PIC.
PalmInfocenter: PalmSource: OS 5 at the Center of Attention
New Site: Mullenweg.com
I just finished putting the finishing touches on what I consider to be an acceptable version of the new Mullenweg Home Page. I bought the domain a while ago (because you know it would have gotten snatched up otherwise) but haven’t done much with it except put my senior pictures in a subdomain. However towards the beginning I built a database schema for all the genealogy information my sister seems to be obsessed with now :). Anyway once all the data was in the database it was a nice project to create a frontend for it, complete with tons of useless trivia about each entry.
I’m also quite proud of the entirey CSS based layout that it’s done in. I’ve dabbled quite a bit in CSS in the past, but this is my first abandonment of tables in a production design. You can also do some cool things on the Site Prefs page using some fancy javascript and alternate stylesheets. Try it out!
testing new system
Yes, I suppose it was just a matter of time before my egotist tendencies combined with my inherit geekiness to create some sort of blog. I’ve had an unhealthy amount of fun setting this up :). This will be a nexus where I talk about and comment on things that interest me, like music, technology, politics, etc. etc. Has anyone noticed that when I’m sick I get a ton of work done?
Editor’s note, Sept 2012: This was the first blog entry I made on a Movable Type-powered blog that used to live on matt.mullenweg.com. From what I can tell from the archives, I switched to B2 (a predecessor to WordPress) about four months later.