⇒ turning point

i'm at the crossroads of life--this is where the decisions i make, the moves i make echo for years to come, perhaps the rest of my life. it's tough; i'm trapped by circumstance, tragedy, history, politics and pride...almost too much to take.

why did this happen to dad? bad things do happen to good people.

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⇒ aus open '09 semi-final 2

rafa d. verdasco in possibly one of the best matches/slugfests ever played, and up alongside 2005 safin d federer as one of the best in aus open history.

very few breaks of serve, both guys came out and threw everything at each other from the very first point! the match went to 5 sets, and lasted 5'14"!!! Verdasco is a different/new kind of beast, something rare, and Rafa was goin nuts trying to figure out his serve.

Verdasco's shot making was outstanding but Rafa's defense was 'Pong'-like--he ran down almost everything and never gave up, despite Verdasco's 90 winners hit. Some amazing rallys covering the entire court several times, too.

Amazing growth and progress for Verdasco--his tournament achievements included stomping Radek Stepanek 6-4 6-0 6-0, dropping just 14 games en route to 4th round, scalping Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and taking Rafael Nadal to his limits in the semi-final (including bouncing back from looking dead and gone in the 4th to winning the tie break 7-0).

Unbelievable! Now it's Nadal vs Federer, their 7 grand slam final against each other, the Aus Open 2009 men's final

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⇒ constructive web catchup

a list apart:

elevate web design at the university level
brighter horizons for web education
return of the mobile style sheet
semantics in html 5
return of the mobile style sheet

campaign monitor blog:

nested tables in HTML email: how much is too much?
Q&A newsletter
Improved authentication and Yahoo! integration
Voices newsletter
Giving back gets going
Export and share campaign reports
Nyman ink newsletter
Dialogue from Dialect
Should your plain text be exactly the same as your HTML?

Google analytics blog:

mastering-motion-charts-trend-analysis
9-steps-to-becoming-analytics-emperor
new-video-see-what-people-are-searching
tracking-google-sites-with-analytics
join-discussion-with-comments
short-answer-is-you-dont-have-to-change
announcing-winners-of-website-workout
eyes-on-prize-with-custom-reports
gaac-attack-year-end-fun-for-google-analysts

MacOSX hints:

Enable mounting of remote CD/DVDs on any Mac
use VLC to watch incomplete movies
Set preview frame during QuickTime movie export
Customize those boring blue folders using Preview

Matt Cutts:

four things you need to know about Knol
detecting googlebombs
Talking to a Wiimote in Ubuntu 8.10
“Preventing Virtual Blight” talk

javascript image galleries:

lightbox
Imago
Hoverbox (modified)
Spry
FrogJS
slideViewer 1.1
lightbox 2

Vitamin feed:

tips for freelancers starting your own business
how to: RSS-Enabled, Micro-Blog with Twitter

other:

why text is king
premium business cards
Officeworks business cards
UK webhosting
Set up new virtual hosts by creating new folders
Google zeitgeist 2008

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⇒ just a few more things

Apple logo

⌥ + ⇧ + K = 

mac setups




weird computer mice

Apple-inspired wordpress themes
more mac keyboard shortcuts and shortcuts for finder
Apple products now and then


Dock icon pillows

Guilty Gear shoryuken wiki

Texas Instruments announced plans to cut 12 percent of its workforce
Panasonic's announced some modest cuts of roughly 600 workers, in addition to closing some of its plants in Asia as it posted a net loss for the first time in six years
Hewlett-Packard's laying off nearly 25,000 people in a "restructuring" scheme
IBM cutting thousands of jobs across the globe

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⇒ hidden, useful

key:

shift: ⇧
control: ⌃
escape: ⎋
eject: ⏏
command: ⌘
option: ⌥

Volume increase in smaller increments

Pressing ⌥ + ⇧ while increasing/decreasing will slowly increase/decrease the volume bar by a quarter value.

Horizontal scroll with mouse

If you have mouse that can only scroll vertically, you can press ⇧ and scrolling to get your horizontal scrolling ability. However in Photoshop, this cannot work. Instead, you need to press ⌘.

speak items using terminal

Open your Terminal and use the command-line:

say hello

Your mac will speak whatever it is you type, in this case, 'hello'

Zooming In/Out Display

Press ⌃ and scroll up/down with your mouse will get your display zoomed in/out.

Drag Items to Finder Toolbar!

Yes, you can do it by drag-hold-release item on the toolbar of Finder. To drag them out again, use ⌘ before dragging the item.

hidden psych office in terminal

1. Open Terminal
2. Type emacs
3. Press ⇧ + ⎋
4. Write xdoctor
5. Be nice and answer all of her questions
6. It's for free

Open Two or More Similar Application at the Same Time

Open your Terminal and use the command-line:

open -n /Applications/Safari.app

You will have two Safaris running at the same time. You can also do that for other applications by replacing the path with Application's path. NOTE: doesn't work for Firefox.

Zero Brightness

The display brightness can be instantly set to zero: ⌃ + ⇧ + ⏏

Open Two or More Similar Application at the Same Time

Open your Terminal and use the command-line:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &

Use this ⌘ to kill the process:

kill PID #number

Enable Safari Inspector

Open your Terminal and use the command-line:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

Quick Shut Down

The last trick, quick shut down which is used almost every day: ⌘ + ⌃ + ⌥ + ⏏.

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⇒ vintage computing feed catchup

Hand cramp keyboard





Atari Touch Tablet





Atari Basketball Catalog





First Black video game character?





Double Dragon: the movie

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⇒ long weekend web catchup

Recession update:
Sun confirms 1,300 layoffs
Sprint Nextel plans to cut 8,000 jobs in quarter
Philips to release 6000 employees into wild
several IBM employees report being laid off on Alliance@IBM
IBM confirms layoffs
AMD reports $1.4 billion loss
Microsoft slash jobs
ING Direct slash 7000 jobs
Citibank cut jobs
Macquarie Bank cut jobs
holy crap! the recession sucks! how is it that no one is legally culpable for this mess?

1914 Cyclopedia of 5,000 Puzzles...By Sam Loyd flickr photo set


note: link goes to carboard shoe show in NYC

getting_started_in_circuit_design

conductive_plate_design

ottawa_boys_invisible_invention_war

javascript_captcha_decoder

Megaupload captcha auto-fill

youtube_as_musical_instruments

picaxe_software_for_maclinux




how_the_computer_gets_the_answer

error_prompt_etching

how_to_led_papercraft_lamp

plastic_polygon_man_watches_your_ev

a_river_of_light_illuminates_from_a

boot_beep_the_story_of_the_macs_boo

lasertracing_emissions


webdesign things which will help:
101-css-techniques-of-all-time-part-1.html
101-css-techniques-of-all-time-part2.html
vector-people-illustrations/
using-css-to-fix-anything-20-common-bugs-and-fixes.html
solving-5-common-css-headaches/
10-best-css-hacks/
9 top css essential skills that every web designer should learn
sprites2
how-to-css-large-background/

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⇒ downturn:australia day '09

australia day long weekend a downer for me and the fam: dad hurt himself over the weekend so seriously he's been hospitalized.

while we're all really worried, i'm sure he'll make a complete and speedy recovery. get well, dad.

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