I had the privilege of creating this image to talk about an upcoming partnership with Cinemark. Feel like I’m progressing somewhat and was happy with the results.
Cufon font and IE9
I know this problem has been around for a while, but I had the pleasure of running into it today on a WordPress site I manage. The fonts are powered by Cufon, which is great and all until IE9 comes into the mix apparently. Unless IE9 was in compatibility view, nothing that was Cufon based would show up. Their are several documented fixes, the easiest in my mind was updating the ‘cufon-yui.js’ file.
- Simply download it here
- Find the older version in your theme’s js folder or wherever it lives and replace it (making a backup of the original of course)
That should take care of it. Thanks Microsoft for being awesome.
National Licorice Day design
Just a little thing I came up with to announce National Licorice Day on our new site. Still trying to get my feet wet with this whole design thing.
Another iPhone wallpaper
I was playing with a logo for a business idea I’m throwing around and thought it would look good as a wallpaper:
iPhone wallpaper
Just messing around with some stuff at work and thought I’d try and be creative with creating a Red Vines® inspired iPhone background. Continue Reading…
but a few days…
I was reading in Genesis 29 yesterday; the chapter focuses on Jacob and his marriage to Rachel. It’s a story we’ve heard a thousand times, how he served Laban for seven years and was cheated by Laban. Verse 20 jumped out at me though, “So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her. (ESV)”
I instantly thought, “wow, years seeming like days sure sounds familiar.” Peter tells us in 2 Peter 3:8, ” But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (ESV)”
Is it possible that just as Jacob’s love for Rachel made the seven years seem like days that God’s love for us is so great that the time in which he is waiting for His bride seems like days to Him?
Is pain necessary for producing fruit?
Sometimes thoughts come to me at the oddest times, like making espresso for example. Pulling proper shots of espresso is an art, and one that makes the hole-in-the-wall coffee shops so popular with those who enjoy the taste of a fine cup. While some larger corporations spend millions perfecting a machine to tamp and pull at the perfect poundage and pressure, there is nothing like a hand tamped shot. My interest was sparked by an episode of Alton Brown’s “Good Eats” who used a bathroom type scale to learn just how hard you really need to press (anywhere between 30 and 40 pounds from what I understand). In addition, the tamper must be twisted to give a smooth finish to the grounds ensuring the grounds are level with no places for the water to “sneak through”. After all this work, what is produced is some great tasting, energy giving, and beautiful looking espresso and the iconic crema. Without the proper preparation, the coffee becomes watered down and weak. One that will be poured down the drain.
More chances to screw up
Reading Seth Godin’s daily posts have been a staple of mine for the last year or two. Since a pretty serious change in my career path occurred in May, many of them have become even more relevant. In late June, he wrote about the radical changes in today’s workplace and how assembly line thinking is no longer valid. One paragraph in particular sums it up well:
You don’t work on an assembly line any more. You work in project world, and more projects mean more chances to screw up, to learn, to make a reputation and to have more impact. – Seth Godin
My mind tends to get stuck on the “screw up” part, a fear of mine that what I deliver will be a screwup and detrimental to my job and ultimately leading to unemployment. But that comma is not a period, screwing up is inevitable and it is one of the only means by which you can finish the sentence. It’s the screw up that gives the opportunity to learn, which leads to building a reputation, and ultimately making a greater impact. It’s what you (I) do with the screw up that determines whether the reputation and impact are positive or negative.
Adding HP NC365T drivers to VMware ESXi
I recently received two new HP DL385 servers for a VMware install. The servers came with an additional NIC we use for redundant virtual switch ports. With the previous VMware install at another site, the NIC’s we ordered worked out of the box, but something was different enough about these HP NC365T cards that VMware did not recognize them.
After some research I found that I had to find and install the right drivers. According to the VMware Compatibility Guide the “igb version 2.1.10.2″ driver would work with these card. It would be cool if VMware provided a link directly to the download, but instead I had to go to the driver download page and find the right driver. I searched the page for 2.1.10.2 and found the drivers for Intel 82576 and 82580 NOTE: It appears there is an even new driver 2.4.10.
$1200 dollars for a crib?
When you wait 5 years between kids, it’s inevitable that you will get rid of most, if not all your baby stuff. Thus was the case with Danielle and I. We had no crib, no clothes, no dressers, toys, swings, etc. We were essentially starting ALL OVER AGAIN, which in this day and age is expensive. During one of the baby shopping trips to one my my wife’s favorite stores in the Pearl District, we both found a crib we loved, but it was $1200.00. Me (being a guy and looking for excuses to build something) looked at this crib, its four sides, simple legs, and some slats, and thought to myself “this probably won’t cost me more than $200 dollars to build”. Luck for me, Danielle was all about the idea and gave the go-ahead to see what I could come up with.
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