Random and Opinionated Thoughts

by: Jennifer Zelazny

Random

Cool Findings

Over the past few weeks, I have found a number of really cool things that I wanted to note. Find images visually with Retrievr. Google Analytics. Most people have access to web statistics via their web host, or have purchased web statistics software, but this is really cool, and really easy. Google Sitemaps. I have […]

Podcasts

Podcasts

I have been listening to podcasts for awhile now, and I thought it might be interesting for some people to see what I subscribe to: Despair.com – A great demotivating podcast (great for elitists) Pro PHP – Podcast about PHP programming Engadget – Information about the latest tech gadgets and tech new Security Now! – […]

Life

2006 Orange Bowl

The 2006 Orange Bowl was something to see. When I found out we (Penn State) were going to play Florida State, I was a bit upset that we were playing a low ranked team (PSU was #3 and FSU was #22). I thought the game would be a complete blowout, but as we all saw…it […]

Life TV

Birthday Excitement

Well, if being obsessed with Dark Shadows: The Revival was not enough, now my father-not-in-law-under-W bought me DVD collection 1 and 2 of the original Dark Shadows. I have 80 episodes in total in the first 2 collections. There are twenty-three collections in all…who needs cable? I am excited to compare the 2 series. When […]

Life

2005 in Review From My Perspective

2005 was the “year of the elite” for me. 😉 I had several eye opening and exciting experiences, but also learned some disheartening life lessons as well. Both build character. 2005 Technical Things to Note: I delivered six new web sites (2 with over 1,000 members) (3 used Content Management Systems) this year I brought […]

Life

How I Spend My Days Off

I decided to take today and tomorrow off from my 9-5 job today. Why? To relax? No. To finish up the painting that still needs to be done? No…hmm, I almost forgot about that. SoCom 3? Nope. I woke up at 730am, and have been working ever since. I took a few minutes to eat […]

TV

Happy Holidays with Barnabas Collins.

I still remember the first night my sister and I saw the two hour season premeire of the 1991 Dark Shadows Revival series. When the series did not get a second season, my sister and I were completely crushed. For Christmas, my sister bought me the DVDs and I, within 5 days, watched the entire […]

jappler.com

jappler frappr.

After thinking about it for a few weeks, I have finally decided to put a link to on my blog page. I created my own map to see how many people who read my blog would actually share their locations with me. Yeah, I could find out this information by looking at my logs, but […]

Content Management Systems jappler.com WordPress

wordpress 2.0

I finally had a few minutes to download the latest Release Candidate of WordPress 2.0 yesterday and install it. Like usual, I created a full backup of my current site files and database, then installed the new version of WordPress and ran the super easy “upgrade” script. I was extrememly surprised when I did not […]

Life

Coach of the Year: Joe Paterno

Not surprising to me, but finally Joe Paterno gets the respect he deserves: Coach of the Year. Good job Joe. I never doubted you. PS. Happy birthday Joe Pa! Why I love Joe: he makes me want to be a better person. (from ESPN article): Now Paterno is in vogue again. Maybe more than ever. […]

CSS

helpful css links.

It is that time of year…when I start looking around at my web sites and figuring out what I can do to improve them. First stop: new or cool CSS techniques. I have been gathering helpful bookmarks for the last few months and thought I would pass all my top 6 CSS recent bookmarks onto […]

Life

Big Weekend

Well well..this past weekend was another busy, but exciting weekend with lots of little surprises. The weekend started out by some good times at a local brewery that served the best pork I have ever had, hands down. Saturday was filled with a lot of work and a reminder why I do not live in […]