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ICON

Posted by Mark | Filed under Web Design

ICON is a local science-fiction con­ven­tion that is run by some peo­ple I know. In pre­vi­ous years, their web­site has been a mon­stros­ity built using M$‘s Front­page (sim­i­lar to their par­ent org’s1 cur­rent web­site). How­ever for the next ICON2, the comit­tee (con-com) run­ning the con includes peo­ple I per­son­ally know and who I was able […]

Tags: CSS, fiction, home, Plugins, WordPress

Read more | Comments (1) | Jan 13, 2005

Mac Mini

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers

While I don’t own any com­put­ers from Apple (unless you want to count my iPod); I have friends that do and so I tend to fol­low any news about them. Today at Mac­World Expo 2005, Steve Jobs announced many things but in par­tic­u­lar he announced 2 prod­ucts that sound very inter­est­ing in deed. I’m speaking […]

Tags: anime, Apple, Computers, friends, iPod, money, sound, tv, videos

Read more | Comments (1) | Jan 11, 2005

As if the days weren’t already too short…

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links

NASA Details Earth­quake Effects on the Earth Jan­u­ary 10, 2005 NASA sci­en­tists using data from the Indone­sian earth­quake cal­cu­lated it affected Earth’s rota­tion, decreased the length of day, slightly changed the planet’s shape, and shifted the North Pole by cen­time­ters. The earth­quake that cre­ated the huge tsunami also changed the Earth’s rota­tion. Read the rest of […]

Tags: NASA, quotes

Read more | Comments (0) | Jan 11, 2005

Lovely Weather

Posted by Mark | Filed under Art, Life

As I’m sure I’ve men­tioned pre­vi­ously, I live in Iowa. The last cou­ple of years we’ve had cold win­ters but haven’t really had that much snow. Appar­ently, Mother Nature was feel­ing it’s time to rec­tify that sit­u­a­tion and we’ve been hav­ing quite the snow­storm. See­ing how I like tak­ing pic­tures and dis­like get­ting cold; here’s […]

Tags: coffee, gallery, Love, moving, Photos, Snow, Weather, Winter

Read more | Comments (0) | Jan 5, 2005

WordPress is Web application of the year!

Posted by Mark | Filed under WordPress

I was just over at ArsTech­nica, check­ing up on the lastest news and noticed in their Look­ing back at 2004 arti­cle that WP had been declared the Web app of the year. Way to go Word­Press devs! Web appli­ca­tion of the year We asked forum­go­ers to choose the best web appli­ca­tion or devel­op­ment frame­work of the year. Web-based […]

Tags: apps, elections, hacks, home, linux, Plugins, problem, quotes, random, Software, spam, tools, WordPress

Read more | Comments (0) | Jan 3, 2005