Monthly Archives: September 2009

Dammit, new project time

So, FlickrShow worked great… for one album. Problem is, if you want to embed more than one slideshow in a page (possible if it was say, multiple entries on a blog), you can’t. The first element will just sit there … Continue reading

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Park(ing) Day 2009

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Windows 7 Makes Me Want to Punch Puppies

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a review of Windows 7 on my old blog. One of my coworkers informed me that I was too nice to Microsoft’s latest operating system, so I’ve decided to make up for it … Continue reading

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Death to Flash

When I first built this site a couple of days ago, I used some freely available flash widgets to get it up and running quickly. These widgets embedded information from a variety of sources, including Twitter, Flickr, Last.fm, and Scribd. … Continue reading

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New Blog

This will be my last post on collegegeek.org, as I’m moving to a new host and a new domain name.  My new blog, hosted at SquareSpace, can be found at http://blog.zachtib.com. This site will remain in read-only mode (no new … Continue reading

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The Mac Tablet, and how Apple can completely screw it up

With an Apple event for their new iPods in a couple of days, the Apple rumor mill is tripping over itself as usual, but I find myself not particularly caring. Maybe it’s because my 4th generation iPod Photo is still … Continue reading

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San Francisco

A couple of days ago, I landed at SFO and moved back into an apartment in Marina Cove, a building on the northern end of the city in the Marina district.  It’s about a block away from the bay and … Continue reading

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Squarespace

It’s funny, but self-hosting a website on a 1Mbit DSL line can be slow.  Really slow.  Add that to my increasing laziness as far as maintaining my WordPress installation, and general love of trying new things, and I decided it … Continue reading

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My Review of Windows 7

A couple of days ago, I got my hands on a copy of Windows 7 Professional through MSDNAA.  Both of my computers were already running on the release candidate and have now been updated to the final build, both with … Continue reading

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