Helping vegetables achieve
Once, just months ago, I sat in this or an identical chair as I felt rise in me the strangest of urges. More than anything I wanted to make and to bake a pie. But not just any pie.
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Bradicon poll results
It’s been about a week since I asked users about the addition of 128×128 and 256×256 to their icon resources. In some ways, the results have been pretty much as expected. In others, not so much!
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128×128 and 256×256 icons and polls
On June 2, 2007, I received an e-mail requesting that I add 128×128 and 256×256 pixel icons to the .ICO resource Bradicon creates. I added them on Bradicon’s dev site, and replied that same day, but have yet to receive an email back. I didn’t end up publishing the changes to Bradicon.
That was a long time ago!
Luke brought it up again last night, and I started to think about it. The changes to the code would be super, super easy. I am a little worried that people may be upset if their icons are suddenly ~22 times as large in file size, which is a substantial increase. ~0.3 MB seems excessive for a favicon.
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Analytics
Today, I updated the Google Analytics code on a few sites. I wanted to try some things to do with tracking:
The family wishlist
Knowing which links people followed to external websites seemed useful. It may allow me to specifically target those sites for advertisement or commission.
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Airtime data
My phone’s been surprisingly resilient. It’s suffered such remarkable damage at my hands and, it has its quirks, but still basically works. It’s impressed me.
I have a Motorola Krzr K1, and it’s not particularly smart. I can’t be certain how long I’ve had it, but if sure feels like it’s been a long time. (Honestly, I could probably check.)
I’ve always secretly planned to get a new phone one day. Probably featuring Android. It may not have been much of a secret. In fact, I imagine it’s probably a fairly normal dream.
But a dream was all it was, I was comfortable waiting for a good month-to-month plan and, ideally, for Android 3.
And then a terrible things happened. My phone stopped working for over sixteen hours. Android 3 was months away, and talk and data plans were worse than ridiculous, while contract-free data plans were difficult to find. It’s fair to say that I panicked, and when I panic even fairer to say I sometimes take things too far.
With such terrible options, it seemed more important than ever to customize a plan to my usage so as not to get owned in the wallet every passing month. The various plans seemed to offer the inclusion of one in three features: a small number of free numbers, a low constant multiple applied to your anytime local minutes, or extended evenings and weekends. I wasn’t sure which would most benefit my usage tendencies, and I wasn’t at all convinced that my actual matched my imagined use.
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mini cards
I designed a card for my sister.
But they’re not your ordinary business cards, they’re mini. I didn’t even know that was an option!
And they’re a good one for her — since they’re a different size, they’ll stand out amongst the other cards; they’re inexpensive, and allow her to print in small numbers; and, you can have different images on one side of the card.
I’m not sure about the print quality, but $20 isn’t too much to find out.
Here are the images, but they include the bleeds because I was too lazy to crop and re-save them. There are 15 colour variations for the one side, and one shared information-side.
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Codepaste 2 and Google Chrome: friends at last?
Codepaste2 displays correctly in Chrome. Finally!
In Opera, Safari, Firefox, and IE everything was great; in Chrome things went so very wrong — lines would wrap, lose opacity, and display behind themselves. Code was super difficult to read.
But now it works! And, to be honest, I’m not sure why. I updated the version of EditArea it uses, and didn’t see a change. When I switched its allow_resize option from both to y everything magically got better.
I was pretty happy. But then I changed y back to both and things didn’t get worse, which left me confused and a little scared.
I hope the issue was resolved by updating EditArea, and all the confusion was caused by some weird caching issue. Or maybe I forgot to refresh.
Codepaste v1 still gets heavier use than Codepaste v2. I wonder if that is by conscious decision, or if people just don’t know about Codepaste v2 and how much better it is.