Entries from August 2007

August 31, 2007

BMI Index

What’s yours?  I’m a 26… need to loose about 5-7 lbs.  Link.

August 30, 2007

Awesome H.S. prank

Good show Kyle…good show.  Link.

August 30, 2007

Light Field Display

Awesome Light Field demo.  Link.

August 30, 2007

Lightning + Plane in Air

Cool, yet short video.  Link.

August 30, 2007

“Lane Splitting”

Another reason to own a bike…  Link.

August 30, 2007

When Engineers get bored…

Thanks Pickens.  Link.

August 28, 2007

Halo 3 Preview

Good Halo 3 multiplayer demo…recorded in front a live audience.  Link.

August 28, 2007

Disclaimer

I use FastMail.FM for email (have for years).  Generally, I am pretty pleased with their performance…  but (yes, the “but” ;) it seems to go down RIGHT WHEN I NEED IT MOST:

fastmail.fm - An error has occurred

UGH!  At least the link to their disclaimer works:

FastMail.FM is provided to you “as is.” FastMail.FM uses its best efforts [...]

August 26, 2007

InvoiceMachine

Generate PDF’s for invoices you make on the fly.  Easy, fast, and makes nice looking invoices for free.  Link.

August 23, 2007

Photoshop: Make “Mac OSX” backgrounds

Link.

August 17, 2007

747 Landing VERY close to ground

This is nuts…  seriously, I don’t know how this plane didn’t slam into the ground.  Link.

August 16, 2007

htaccess for WordPress

This is what to put in your htaccess file to turn on mod_rewrite, fixing WordPress’ /index.php problem when using “pretty” permalinks:
Options +FollowSymlinksOptions -Indexes
# BEGIN WordPress<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L]</IfModule># END WordPress
It’s what’s in MY file.  It may not work for everyone but it works for me on several hosts, [...]