Random and Opinionated Thoughts

by: Jennifer Zelazny

Life

all work, no play!

It is coming up on a month since I last golfed…but thankfully that is about to end. The last few weekends I have been putting in 8 hours or more (hours seem like minutes) of work per day between my work with Solaris, Apache, XOOPS, and organizing my workspace. Although I have accomplished a lot, […]

Apache Hints

apache support.

I cannot stress how amazing the Apache community has been when I have needed help. Not only do I spend a lot of time reading the great documentation on the Apache web site, I subscribe to the Apache mailing lists, and when I really need help fast, I jump on the #Apache channel using IRC […]

Content Management Systems

XOOPS 99% completed.

After a weekend packed of long hours working on getting everything just right…I am 99% complete. Now it is time to get picky with CSS as well as use Apache’s mod_rewrite to clean up some of the nasty URLs XOOPS creates. Tomorrow…the link.

Apple

happy birthday salsa! (and the iMac)

Today is a day of birthdays…Salsa and the iMac. Salsa celebrated her fifth birthday with unlimited cat nip and wet food. My iMac took the day off and relaxed all day to celebrate his birthday 😉

Serenity Now!

email forwards.

You know the situation. You have friends that think you want to read their stupid forwards. How many times have I recieved an email from someone that said “just try it” or “what do you have to lose?” or “this really works!!!”. Sure. Thanks for just wasting my time deleting your message. Then, without doubt, […]

Life

Awesome Stuff

Just when I thought I was going to be super cool by creating a vodcast, I find out that there is something cooler out there. Is this the future of TV? A big cheers to me for finally working out the max-width error that was making all my PC IE friends (ok probably about 2 […]

Standards

Color, gimp.app, and Photoshop

I love Photoshop. I always have. I can still remember the first time I saw it. It was version 3 in a computer lab at Penn State, running on 7100s with Mac OS 7.5.1. It was a rainy day and I was enlisted to help the instructor keep the class of PSU faculty and staff […]

Stuff

Whoa, Customizable Sneakers!

Wow. I happen to live with someone who has to be the pickiest sneaker shopper ever. We could easily go into 5 different stores and be unsuccessful. The color is wrong, something does not feel right, they are ugly, they do nt have my size…what she really needs is to be able to create her […]

Games

Oregon Trail

Not too many people appreciate my computer collection…and fewer even give me the opportunity to show them what I really have. Tonight was a rare exception. A friend and I were hanging out in my “office” and she looked over at my Apple II GS and asked me if I remembered playing Oregon Trail. I […]

Apple

mighty mouse.

Well…after years and years of friends having a multi-button mouse, a mouse with a scroll wheel, and laughing at me and my love for my Apple mouse, Apple releases the Mighty Mouse. I always said I would use whatever Apple provided, and nothing-no matter how cool or how much I was missing out in my […]

TV

Crystal Skulls

This past weekend was full of CSS/XOOPs work (probably a good 16-20 hours). I will have something to show shortly…as soon as I figure out the best way to post static information. Yes, it not as easy as I had orignally thought. Dynamic material…no problem. Static material…it is almost like I am not supposed to […]

Content Management Systems CSS Web Development

up late with XOOPs.

After completely moving towards tabless designs, it is hard to look at the cluttered code of tables in code. I have probably put in 15 hours of playing with XOOPs now, a few of these hours stripping code down to be more CSS driven. I am all about clean code these days, but boy do […]