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The New Office UI is Delicious

Filed under: Tech

Posted 2 years, 7 months ago at 9:44 am. 2 comments

Office 2007 Beta 2 is up for public download. I have been lurking on the UI and Office XML format blogs for a while, and I even went to the UI talk last month to see its demo. I finally got to test drive it and am thoroughly impressed by it.

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Reflection.js 1.5 out

Filed under: Projects, WP Wetfloor

Posted 2 years, 7 months ago at 9:29 am. 1 comment

Cow released a new version for his Reflection.js, with new features such as customizable and scriptable reflection height and opacity. I will update wp-wetfloor later this week to include the changes.

Diary of a Cartoonist

Filed under: Random

Posted 2 years, 7 months ago at 10:49 pm. 0 comments

Anyone remotely interested in cartoons/drawing/doodling would like Diary of a Cartoonist by Scott Johnson (also known as showbiz pictureboy) on ExtraLife.com. The videos are only 3-5 minutes long and you can see how he creates his cartoons using pencil, Sharpie and Photoshop.
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Some of his video also made it to the front page of YouTube. Here is one called Chicken Dirt Bath. If you subscribe to the feed on his site, you will also get the secret Bill Gates and Boobies episode.

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WP Wetfloor 1.0 Released / P-man Rebirth

Filed under: Projects, WP Wetfloor

Posted 2 years, 7 months ago at 9:39 pm. 0 comments

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I was playing with the reflection JavaScript effect, and thought I might as well write some PHP code and pack the whole thing into a WordPress plugin. Continue Reading…

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Call Crab My Voicemail

Filed under: Tech

Posted 2 years, 7 months ago at 10:41 pm. 2 comments

Announced today, if you are in the US or Canada, you can use SkypeOut to call all landlines and cellphones within the US and Canada for free [until the end of year, so hurry].
If, for whatever reason you want to leave me a voicemail at my Seattle (206) number…

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Also free, the 206 number provided by K7.net and the reflection effect (next post).