Archive for category ‘News’

2010
10
May
Category: Entertainment, News
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Recently, Darth Vader was in the studio recording his voice for TomTom GPS. Makes me wish I had a TomTom instead of a Garmin.

This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video.

Be sure to check out the website. C-3PO, Yoda, and Han Solo are coming soon!

2010
10
Apr
Category: Misc, News, Self, Website

Yesterday was CSS Naked Day. CSS Naked Day was thought up by Dustin Diaz. The purpose of CSS Naked Day is to to promote Web Standards; including proper use of XHTML, semantic markup, and a good hierarchy structure. In other words it disables your CSS for for a 24 hour period in order to promote web standards.

I forgot that yesterday was CSS Naked Day. So when I went to my site, I was pissed that my site was jacked up. My first thought was that my site was hacked. The styling was gone but all of the content was there. Which didn’t make sense why a hacker would do that. That I realized what happened.

That was my first CSS Naked Day that I participated in. It was pretty cool. Click on the image to see a screenshot of my site during CSS Naked Day. Also, a “thank you” goes to Aja Lupas for creating the Wordpress CSS Naked Day plugin that I used.

2010
24
Feb
Category: IE, News
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Unfortunately I will not be able to make it, however there will be a funeral for IE6 on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in Forest Room 5, 2532 15th Street, Denver, CO 80211-3902.

For more information, visit the website at ie6funeral.com

In memory of IE6, here is a representation of how IE6 renders CSS

2009
10
Nov
Category: Misc, News, Self
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After I posted that last image, I found one that I liked better. So I’m posting this one as well.

Happy Birthday

2009
10
Nov
Category: News, Self
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The United States Marine Corps turns 234 years old today. Happy Birthday to all of the Devil Dogs.

Happy 234th Birthday Marine Corps

2009
06
Jun
Category: News
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Prime numbers are a lot less common than you realize. In fact, the only way to discover new prime numbers is to use a computer. The most common way is to use distributed computing from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project.

On April 12th, 2009, the 47th known Mersenne prime was discovered and verified. It is a 12,837,064 digit number discovered by Odd Magnar Strindmo from Melhus, Norway.

Odd Magnar Strindmo is an IT professional whose computers have been working with GIMPS since 1996 testing over 1400 candidates. This calculation took 29 days on a 3.0 GHz Intel Core2 processor.

This is the 13th Mersenne prime found by GIMPS in its 13 year history.