Category Archives: Fun

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Commercial Jingles

6/20/2007 – 6:40 pm

My wife was a Communications major in college. So she often makes observations about how organizations try to get their message out to their audience. One thing she remarked on recently was the decline in the use of musical jingles, as opposed to non-musical slogans, in advertising. [...]

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Things I intentionally did not blog about recently

4/12/2007 – 1:58 pm

Here are some hot topics that I specifically chose not to blog about recently:

  • The “Blogger Code of Conduct”
  • Don Imus’ racial slurs
  • Anna Nicole’s baby-daddy

You’re welcome.

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogging, Humor, News | Tagged | Comments (11)

Buggy clock

2/28/2007 – 12:17 pm

I’ve discovered a bug in my clock that’s been causing me all sorts of headaches. It’s really messing with my ability to complete projects when others are expecting them. If I can’t find a fix soon, I’m definitely going to have to get a new clock.

See, the problem is that this clock only counts 24 hours in a day. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Humor, Personal, Work | Comments (9)

Dougal 4.0

1/30/2007 – 1:20 pm

Today I turn the big Four-Oh. I’m not sure how I should feel about that. Since I’m a web development geek, how about we consider some possible responses in terms of HTTP 1.1 Status Codes:

I suppose the expected response would be 406 Not Acceptable. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Humor, Personal, Semantics, Standards | Tagged | Comments (6)

Virus Alert

1/29/2007 – 11:01 am

I don’t usually do this, but I think this is serious enough that we need to get the word out. . [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Humor, Security | Tagged | Comments (2)

Your daily dose of dumb

11/6/2006 – 2:47 pm

Wherein you get the benefit of the sillier side of my lunchtime browsing…

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Browsenberg Uncertainty Principle

9/29/2006 – 2:30 pm

Co-worker Stephen Touset has described what he calls the Browsenberg Uncertainty Principle:

As one increases the layout precision of a section on a webpage, all other sections of the page have their layouts perturbed by a proportional amount.

And its corollary:

The more precisely one specifies positioning and layout for a page in one browser, the less accurately every other browser will render it.

Make sure you follow the link and also read his example of a typical exchange between a customer and a web designer. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in CSS, Web Design | Tagged , | Comments (6)

Sesame Street

4/20/2006 – 10:43 am

Over on waxy.org’s links, I found this list of Sesame Street videos on YouTube. Talk about bringing back some memories. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Entertainment, Whatever | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

Ping-O-Matic Fun

1/13/2006 – 4:27 pm

The problem with running a service like Ping-O-Matic is that sometimes you have to send emails like this: 

To: [...deleted...]
Subject: Re: pingomatic

> Hi!
>
> I have tried to ping pingomatic for about 2 days now
> but it will not work for me. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogs, Community, Ping-O-Matic, Services, Spam | Tagged | Comments (22)

Six Rules for Driving

1/12/2006 – 12:24 pm

If you are going to share the road with me, here are some rules that I expect you to know:

  1. Don’t tailgate me.

    If you tailgate me, I’ll slow down. Unless you try to pass me, in which case, I might speed up. And if we’re in a no-passing zone, I’ll slow down more. [...]

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