Random and Opinionated Thoughts

by: Jennifer Zelazny

Music

Looking for Some Recommended Music?

Music is very important to me. I listen to music for at least 8-9 hours a day (all day while working, 1 hour in the car a day). It has been awhile since I posted anything on the podcasts I subscribe to via iTunes and I wanted to update the list incase you were curious. […]

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A Sign Of The Times…

This morning on my way home from dropping Evan off at the babysitter’s house I decided to stop by my bank and deposit a few checks. I knew Washington Mutual got bought by Chase and I also realized my local branch was going to close – but I thought it was going to be in […]

Stuff

Lego Business Card

OK – I seem to be on a LEGO kick so as soon as I saw this – I had to share. Check out the official LEGO business cards! I have been trying to come up with something cool for my own business cards. Not like I will ever come up with something as cool […]

Javascript

Jappler Recommends: jQuery

If you ever wanted to do something cool (slideshow, lightbox, accordion, pagination, table sorting, drop down menus etc) – please do yourself a favor and look at jQuery and all the great jQuery plugins that are available. About a year or two ago I really liked some of the different javascript libraries (YUI, prototype, etc) […]

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Long Days…

Man – these past few weeks have been insane. I literally have been working non-stop and feel like I cannot quite get to a good stopping point. I will say that I have been busy with three particular projects that I was just not really excited about but after a long day and getting 2 […]

Business

Minimizing Interruptions

Lately I have felt like I have been doing the never fun “suicides” that I did in high school during basketball practice. Running to one spot, running back, running to the next stop, running back, etc. There have been way too many tasks at hand and instead of finishing one and moving on – I […]

Software

Jappler Recommends: LEGO Digital Designer

Thanks to a fellow Zelazny who commented on my recent LEGO post – I am going to spend my weekend creating my own LEGO set and you can too: ldd.lego.com. Within moments, I created a LEGO man with an oxygen tank, and placed some bricks to get the feel for it. How cool is this? […]

Games

Jappler Recommends: Makeshift Wii Fit

I have always thought walking/running on the treadmill was boring. It was ever so slightly more exciting at the gym because you could get some good people watching in – but even that gets boring. The last few days I have decided to kick it up a notch by distracting myself with some Nintendo Wii […]

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Side Projects

Between normal day to day work, maintaining a house, spending time with the family and pets, exercise, relaxing, and enjoying life…there is not too much time for fun side projects these days. I have been trying to complete a few really cool things over the last few months without much luck…but I think March will […]

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Read the Fine Print

While installing an update to one of my applications (Jungle Disk) yesterday – I ran into some of the smallest “fine” print I have ever seen. I know that it is generally small – but I had to laugh when I saw this. [responsive-image id=’5008′ align=’center’ caption=”]