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ColdFusion Wrapper for Aviary Effects API
May 11th
Sometime last week, Aviary (the super-sweet collection of online image editing tools) launched their new developer site, along with a new Effects API. When I see “API,” I think “ColdFusion wrapper,” so that’s exactly what I did 🙂
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Epic Music Import of 2011: Some Stats
Feb 8th
A few days ago, I posted some reflections on my efforts to import my CD collection into iTunes. Well, it’s finally done, and here are the final stats:
No. Songs: 4595 No. Albums: 592 No. Genres: 45 Library Size: 21.1 GB Biggest Genre: Religious Year Span: 1940-2011 Best Album: In Shallow Seas We Sail (Emery) Best Artist: Emery Best Decade: 2000’s Best Genre: Rock Most Used Word in Song Titles: “Love” Best Discovery: I have about every Toad album ever Most Disturbing: Clay Aiken Christmas albums *shudder* Share this:
Chrome Web Apps Upgrade
Feb 4th
Just a quick note–if you didn’t see, Google Chrome has revamped the display for your personal app dashboard. You can now re-order apps by drag-n-drop, rather than installing and uninstalling in the right order.
Check it out 🙂
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CDs are a Hassle
Feb 1st
For about the last 9 years, my wife and I have been lugging around giant, fabric-bound cases of CDs. While most of the music we listen to nowadays is delivered via iTunes or MOG, we’ve held onto these portable discs of sound…and I’m not really sure why.
Sure, there are some gems that I’ve found–albums that I’ve all-but-forgotten about, but smile fondly when I am now reminded. Â But, it’s still mostly a pile of garbage…and it’s still something I can’t bring myself to throw away!
But finally this weekend, after going through the collection for about the 1 billionth time, I decided that I had had enough. I vowed, then and there, to ditch this pile of garbage for good…after I imported them into iTunes, of course 🙂
So I started importing the music, disc by disc, album by album. And here’s something I’ve noticed: when your entire CD collection is spread across several zippered carrying cases, it doesn’t seem that large. However, when you pile them all up next to each other–and have to wait on a less-than-speedy CD drive, you realize (very quickly) just how much of a chore awaits you.
Now here I am, nearly 60 discs into the over 350-disc More >

Quick Update to Gloss
Jan 27th
Based on feedback from several users (thanks to Charlie and Tyler!), I’ve updated the search interface to Gloss a bit. It’s still a work in progress, but this newest fix has resolved the issue of lack of keyboard navigation to search results from the search field. Â Here’s what has changed:
- You can now tab out of the search field to the first search result, and then tab to subsequent search results.
- You can strike Enter or Spacebar on a highlighted search result to load its respective page
I do have a question for users regarding the “post-load” behavior. Currently, if you select a search result to load a page, focus is taken away from the search result and given to the item in the navigation tree that correlates to the search result. Is this desirable behavior, or would you rather have focus be retained on the search result?
Perhaps I’ll install a new configuration option to give the choice…:)
Thanks to everyone who uses the tool, and please feel free to let me know of any ideas/improvements/bugs/whatever.
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Cutout Nativity
Dec 8th
A while back, my brother created some cool color-and-cut-out nativity figures. In the spirit of the holiday, I had my daughter bust out the crayons and color the full nativity scene for an art project. Here are the results…enjoy! 🙂
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Beginnings
Nov 24th
Over the weekend, my family and I moved to Maineville, OH. Â We were able to find a really nice house with a lot more space than our old cramped apartment. Â While unpacking, I decided to finally tackle a task I had been putting off for years: pulling data off my old PC so that I can stop dragging it around everywhere I go…
While browsing these old files, I found the source code for the very first web site that I ever made.
As a disclaimer, this site is very rough.  I had no idea about HTML–so it’s basically an export from Photoshop to the web.  But as rough as it is, it was where I got my start, and so this site will always have a special place in my heart.  Plus, it was something that I made for good friends, so that’s an added bonus 🙂
Anyway, check it out when you have a chance, and marvel at the awesomeness!
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