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Sinisterdesign web site redesign in progress
I’ve been working with my step-son, Craig, on redesigning his web site with WordPress. You can see the results at http://www.sinisterdesign.net. While you’re there check out his Flash RPG games. He’s a great game designer. I’m sure you enjoy his telepath RPG series.
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Hello Kitty Photo Op
Amazing what you can do with a FlipVideo camcorder, iMovie, a vacation, and an interesting situation on a walk down 7th ave in Times Square. A little video short just jumped out at me. Enjoy.
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OMG!!! May 2, 2009 Neighborhood garage Sale
May 2, 2009 East Nashville Garage Sale Several Lockeland Springs neighbors are having garage sales on Saturday May 2, 2009. Wow!!!! There is SO MUCH STUFF. Locations: 1607 Forrest Ave. 1108 Gartland Ave. 1206 Gartland Ave. 1207 Gartland Ave. 1306 Gartland Ave. Lockeland Baptist Church – 1601 Holly St. Click here for Rain and…
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Why is hypertext blue?
A student asked the design question, “Why is hypertext blue?” I was able to speculate why as a designer I might have chosen the color blue over another; like red. Red indicates alarm where blue is less intimidating yet still provides a strong contrast with surrounding black text and a white background. However, I could…
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The history of the internet
The following video, The History of the Internet, an animated documentary by Melih Bilgil, was featured by Youtube.com on 1/27/2009. It is a great illustration of the beginnings of the TCP/IP protocol which is the underlying communications protocol that connects computers to the internet. The HTTP protocol, a communications protocol, runs on top of the…
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About WordPad vs NotePad
A student writes the following question… “When I write my code in Wordpad and save as an htm text document, it looks like one. But after I open it in the browser to see how it looks, the icon in the folder no longer says .htm and it appears to be a Firefox document. Is…
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