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Month July 2005

DHTML “Fun” — Scrolling Tables

A project I’m working on at the moment is a financial application (woo! party!) that displays huge tables of data. When I say huge, I mean it’s possible the byte-weight of the data will be greater than the weight of everything else combined. So, in searching for a way to make these tables more usable, [...]

Even though the wait is long, why I’m waiting for Tivo HD.

I have Tivo, and love Tivo. Everyone will eventually have a DVR of some sort, and eventually they will all be as nice to use as Tivo is (common sense and better hardware will see to it). But they aren’t yet, in fact, every cable-provider-provided DVR I’ve ever seen or heard of is just terrible. [...]

Sorkin and Lowe, Together Again

I’m a HUGE West Wing fan, and was sad to see Rob Lowe’s character written out due to contract and creative differences a few seasons ago. Along with being a WW fan, I’m an Aaron Sorkin fan in general, so I’ve been looking forward to his next project, a film called The Farnsworth Invention. However, [...]

Dvorak Disses Creative Commons

John Dvorak doesn’t understand Creative Commons, which makes it bad, right? Whatever. Dvorak has a piece in PC Magazine in which he tries to discuss Creative Commons, but he can’t because he just doesn’t get it. He doesn’t understand that copyright laws are black and white, and CC was created to provide some grey. As [...]

Update: Gift Certificate Expiration

My post entitled Gift Certificates: The gift that goes away has a bit of Google-juice. So, it’s probably a good idea to tell you that it has been updated: A commenter provided a link to a PDF that summarizes each states gift certificate laws, and I have summarized the summaries. » PDF from usegiftcertificates.org » [...]