Archive for September, 2007

The Day I Almost Wore Real Shoes to Work

Today, for the first time since I moved to California, I put on socks.  And real shoes.  I was even going to wear them to work–for this was to be Bike to Work Day: Part Deux!  Why so long between attempts?  Well, I needed a couple of days to recover after the last one and […]

Nibblets

To make a long story short, not every game I cook up and prototype turns out to be a winner. Some of them don’t even make it past an early prototype. This idea, though, I really really liked. It just seemed (in my head) that it should be fun. The concept, […]

The Stressful Commute

Usually, my commute takes me about 15 minutes each way. It’s only 3.6 miles, but there a bunch of red lights and stop signs. Today, it took around 50 minutes each way. A little over triple the usual. Why? Because I didn’t take my car. After putting on the […]

Let the bike experiment begin!

Last week, I bought a bike off of craigslist. An old bike. Like, a really old bike. That’s okay, though, it was only $30. I had the guys at a bike shop check it out, and while they suggested around $150 worth of repairs if I wanted the thing to run […]

YUI + SWFobject: Play Nice!

I found a bevy of links explaining why you had to set an embedded SWF’s wmode property to either “opaque” or “transparent” to get a div placed on top of it to show properly, but yesterday at work I was experiencing another strange error. First, the setup: on one of our pages, we’ve […]