Keyboard Face

Check this out: http://www.dice.com/beingit/

I particularly like the Pinata Gun on the Sales Manager.

From Google Labs:

Animation: The paper references this movie showing how the distribution of requests to google.com around the world changed through the day on August 14, 2003.

This is a little random for this blog, but I just ran across this site and it’s hilarious. You have to read the whole thing.

Panexa

Word tends to autocorrect and insert special characters that look good, but don’t work when put on a web page. They end up looking like this: ‘ “testâ€?.

If you write your blog posts in word and then paste them into your blog, you’ll often times get those funky characters. Here is an explanation as to why it does this and how to avoid it.

To avoid having to spend time searching and replacing numerous word documents I needed to add to the web, I wrote a tool that does it for me. Here it is: Clean Word’s Funky Characters.

I’m working on a project currently that needs a flash photo gallery. After much searching, I’ve decided to modify one from a great tutorial. You can find it here:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_slideshow3.htm

Google’s Quote of the Day had a quote today:

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
– Unknown

Having experienced this I would say more appropriately:

In a few minutes someone with a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.