Category Archives: General
CSS Tricks: .noprint and .noscreen
Cascading style sheets (CSS) make it easy to target web pages to multiple output media. For example, using different CSS rule sets it is possible to design a single web page that looks visually different on screen, on a hand-held device, or when printed. On way that I’ve extensively used different CSS media types is […]
I Want some roBlocks
I just read about roBlocks in an editorial email from Dr. Dobb’s Journal. Basically, they’re little magnetic blocks that you stick together and build robots. The blocks are smart enough to know how they are arranged and can automatically provide various functionality based on that arrangement. There are currently about 21 different blocks available, each […]
Wide-Area WiFi Comes to Rochester
Driving through town earlier today I noticed a new box on one of the traffic lights near my house. The box, mounted on above the road, had three antennae coming out of it. As I continued to drive I noticed these boxes on several traffic lights in the city as well as one on a […]
Signing and Background Noise
Why is it that, when I run into someone I know who is deaf while I am at the gym or out walking or whatever, I have to stop my iPod to have a conversation, but I work I can be on the phone having a spoken conversation with one person while having a second […]
Polypro Socks
I went camping with Tay House this weekend. In true Boy Scout fashion the weather was sub-par. Saturday morning it rained. The rain stopped, but then it got warm and lots of the snow and ice started to melt. That made everything wet and muddy. Many scouts’ boots soaked through and we quickly ran out […]