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SlidingDoors – A jQuery Plugin

This weekend I got the idea to make a simple jQuery plugin of my own. (What is jQuery?)  I’ve used a number of plugins with great success, and decided that the best way to learn more about jQuery and give something back to the community would be to develop a plugin of my own. [...]

Spam I Am

I’m not going to complain about spam – it’s pretty much a dead horse I don’t plan to beat. What I want to complain about is a certain webmail services inability to filter out some really obvious spam – some that might have a subject like @*’;. shiz! .;’*@ – or something like that. [...]

The Meeting of the Bad Movie Club was a Bomb, and We Loved It.

The first ever meeting of the Charlottesville B-Movie Appreciation Club was terrible. We plan to have another one soon, at least as bad.
This club consists of six intrepid movie-watchers subjected to two episodes of Mystery Science Theater, back to back. In the great tradition of the show, the first movie was selected for [...]

We’ve secretly replaced Virginia with Michigan. Let’s see if anyone can tell the difference!

It has snowed again here, not that you could tell – it’s just sitting on the remaining snow from the last two, maybe three snowstorms. We have a chance at more snow today, tomorrow, and three days next week. Five days out of the next ten. The local kids are going to [...]

The Delight of Always-On Internet

I really enjoy my iPhone – it still feels like a new toy.  But what I think I like the most is that it’s always online (assuming signal, of course).  Movie questions answered (IMDB app), instant email access, weather from the Weather Channel (app), and of course, blogging.  I’m on my PC right this second, [...]