For those who don’t know, in addition to writing for this blog, I also blog professionally elsewhere. One of my most recent articles on the 10 Most Marketable Web Development Skills actually appeared on Read/Write Web, a popular web technology blog with over 150,000 subscribers. Of course, with so many eyes, criticisms were to be [...]
My three-year-old, like all other children his age, is fond of mimicking his parents. Monkey see, monkey do, right? Unfortunately, we spend a good deal of our free time on the computer, which makes him want to play with it as well, particularly when we aren’t looking. He hasn’t managed to do anything catastrophic yet, [...]
Scott Adams, the author of the Dilbert comic strip, recently published a book named, “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey-Brain!” He didn’t wait for some stuffy “professionals” to review it, though. Instead, he decided to run a contest for the funniest book reviews. Here are a some of my favorite submissions. You can also check out [...]
Most of the time, I create build guides for my own edification; researching what others consider the best build really helps me optimize my own character. Not too long ago, I posted a feral druid build that managed to get some attention over at Wowhead. Based on the feedback I read there, I’d like to [...]
I remember watching the original Wizard of Oz movie as a child. Even though it was almost half a century old by the first time I watched it, the story was still enjoyable for its imagination. Like any true classic, it’s timeless, able to appeal to audiences even decades after its first release. I found [...]
I can’t profess much expertise with cryptography, but I hate form spammers as much as the next guy. That’s why I designed this simple math captcha in PHP. Just include the input code in your form and the output code in your form processor. A new form field will appear asking submitters to solve an [...]
I’m smart, frugal, and internet savvy, so you’d think this concept would have occurred to me before now. After all, you can buy nearly anything online nowadays, usually for much less than you’d pay at a store. Until very recently, though, I had it in my head that you simply couldn’t buy glasses online, that [...]
Consider, for a moment, how much time you spend using a mouse every day of your life. With all that practice, you probably think you’re pretty agile with that little cursor… Well, think again. Mouse avoider is a flash game designed to pit your manual dexterity against a sly little man hell bent on stealing [...]
Chimerus, my tauren druid, is into his sixties now, and barely a day goes by that someone doesn’t ask if I want to be in their guild. I understand their reasoning; an unguilded, high-level druid who’s almost ready for end-game content is a rare commodity indeed. Almost universally, I politely decline their invitation and leave [...]