Author Archives: insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Can’t Resist One Post

Posted on March 13, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Slash.dot’s had a running conversation of a recent NYTimes article that included a list of the top ten most important video games of all-time. Their list: [Henry] Lowood and the four members of his committee — the game designers Warren … Continue reading →

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Why Am I Writing This?

Posted on March 4, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Things to do: Prospectus: Progress: 99% Yes, finally, I have a 27 page revised document. Hoo-rah. The one precent remaining? I wrote the document in NeoOffice but am running into some formatting issues. So,I’m going to reformat the document in … Continue reading →

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Derrida’s “The Book to Come”

Posted on March 3, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

When researching / reading, I usually write notes in text-edit. Usually this stuff never sees the light of day (especially when I’m working off of 4 hours sleep), but today I feel like sharing. Up until now, I’ve made this … Continue reading →

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Poirot Takes the Case

Posted on March 2, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I awoke this morning to a terrible scene: Immediately I took a quick survey of the damage: I conjured the spirit of my favorite Belgium detective… he immediately instructed me to locate the origin of the crime: Next, I investigated … Continue reading →

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CSS and Background Images

Posted on March 1, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

A couple of posts back I talked about the resume project my students have been working on–today we created a new style sheet for it using a background-image technique I first learned from Karl Stolley as a member of his … Continue reading →

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Phew… busy, busy, busy

Posted on February 28, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I read a really intriguing post over at Berea St. on browser testing (which links to a discussion by super-hero Andy Clarke). Johanson presents his order for testing–its interesting to see how many browsers a professional looks at. I feel … Continue reading →

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So busy…

Posted on February 23, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Doing all the wrong things. While I am supposed to be focusing on my academics right now, I spent the last few days in a design induced spree–CSS’ing everything in my path. It all started with my multimedia class. I … Continue reading →

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A new home (page)

Posted on February 20, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Here a screen shot of the rough draft: I’m looking for something bright with a textured background. I’ve been working for about three hours, we’ll see how I feel about it in the morning. Decision to sleep on: whether the … Continue reading →

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Grr… Swap Images

Posted on February 12, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Spent about an hour working on this one, but to no avail. Not quite sure where I went wrong. The tutorial wasn’t the easiest for me to follow, but I’ve read worse. The technique looks cool (here’s an example), and … Continue reading →

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Filters vs. Live Effects

Posted on February 11, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Not a bad tutorial, though nothing mind blowing. The trick about using the magic wand and the brighten filter to adjust select parts of an image is useful (though I often use the burn/dodge tool for this…) No images worth … Continue reading →

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