Joey and Martha

We used to write puppet plays almost every week for Victoria Avenue Baptist Church in Belleville. Alanna always played Martha, and Joey by Samuel when he was in town, or Zeth. Almost all have a matching scripture reading.

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Get your feeds in your Twitter timeline

My Google Reader’s unread items has been at the 1000+ mark now for months. I just don’t have time to click through each item. The thought of scrolling through 1000+ items is daunting, and has led me to ignore my … Continue reading →

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

– BEGIN NERDY STAR TREK TALK – Zoe and I have been watching Deep Space Nine lately, after someone told us “it gets better in the later seasons”. While we have mixed feelings about the show so far, we keep … Continue reading →

PHP Browse Folder

Zoe’s Mom found her parents’ old slide projector, with thousands of slides. There are pictures of weddings in the 60′s, 70′s and 80′s, pictures of missions trips in Africa, and lots of old family photos. She dusted it off and … Continue reading →

Oh, won’t you please take me home

Yes, it is time again for some more maths. In this Venn Diagram, the green represents places where the grass is green, and the pink represents places where the girls are pretty. Where they intersect we find Paradise City (oh … Continue reading →

Math is Fun

Hello all, I’m here today to talk to you about Maths. And Google Code. I’ve been playing around with Google Code, and have found that it allows me to create charts, as many charts in as many forms as I … Continue reading →

links for 2009-05-12

The 10 Commandments of PageRank Sculpting (tags: seo) Ian Rogers » Google Page Rank – Whitepaper (tags: seo) iSite Essentials for Drupal Users | LevelTen Web Design | Dallas, TX (tags: drupal)

links for 2009-05-11

rtraction » Blog Archive » Kiva Giveaway! rtraction's kiva twitter giveaway! (tags: kiva charity web twitter)

links for 2009-04-16

Appcelerator Titanium™ makes building desktop rich applications easy like adobe air, but open source. *drooool* (tags: opensource desktop ria titanium web programming) Sorting Algorithm Animations i wish patrick had taught us using this! (tags: algorithms)

links for 2009-04-09

Why Jaxer Doesn’t Matter | Andrew Powell’s Flex, Java, ColdFusion, and AJAX Blog (tags: jaxer)

links for 2009-04-08

Zend Server Community Edition – Zend.com install this! (tags: server)

links for 2009-04-02

SaveIE6: Help us save the best browser around (tags: funny)

links for 2009-04-01

google.jpg (JPEG Image, 400×284 pixels) someone should make a greasemonkey script to restyle google to look like this! (tags: google) CacheSearch 0.1.1 :: Firefox Change-arounds Full text search extension for cache files. (tags: firefox)

Shared Items – March 29, 2009

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Teaser Trailer – Trailer Addict Ombudsmen No Thanks, Mister Roboto YouTube – Ultimate Alliance Cinematics – WHAT IS THIS!? The Rocket Coaster YouTube – ScreamBody – Kelly Dobson Producing Open Source Software – Free … Continue reading →

links for 2009-03-26

pChart | a PHP Charting library (tags: php)

links for 2009-03-25

10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know – Nettuts+ (tags: html)

Shared Items – March 22, 2009

The hardest puzzle question in the world Students – noooooo! Theo Jansen creates new creatures | Video on TED.com – bugs explained using giant robots!

links for 2009-03-18

Canvas to replace Flash? Not likely. (tags: html flash)

links for 2009-03-16

The Apocalypse Must Have Occurred?! – The Daily WTF Impossible code runs all too often (tags: geeky)

Shared Items – March 15, 2009

Experts Agree Giant, Razor-Clawed Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat | The Onion – America's Finest News Source – nothing can go wrong! Starting Seeds Indoors: Jump-Start Your Garden Today – for gavin: growing seedlings Study Shows The Princess Is In … Continue reading →

links for 2009-03-12

70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine (tags: ajax jquery)

links for 2009-03-11

Creating a File Hosting Site with CodeIgniter – NETTUTS I'm totally making one of these for work Go CodeIgniter!! (tags: codeigniter web2.0) DrupalCon DC 2009 Wrap Up (tags: drupal)

Shared Items – March 8, 2009

Ctrl+Alt+Del – 6 March 2009 – Watchmen opens today!! Brewton pharmacist launches homegrown economic stimulus with $2 bills – Breaking News from the Press-Register – al.com YouTube – Microsoft to Make Computers "Humanistic"….meet Laura, … – If one company was … Continue reading →

links for 2009-03-04

Hacking Bespin (tags: bespin)

Shared Items – March 1, 2009

Buttersafe – Updated Tuesdays and Thursdays » Comic Archive » Nice Belt – too cool! Literal video version of White Wedding by Billy Idol – Boing Boing – better words for “white wedding” scary.JPG – out of place? How to … Continue reading →

links for 2009-02-24

cufon – sIFR alternative No flash or other plugins required (tags: css font)

Shared Items – February 22, 2009

Toothpaste for Dinner – 19 February 2009 Irish cops finally "catch" Prawo Jazdy – Boing Boing TechEBlog » Solar Batteries – solar powered batteries! YouTube – Antarctica Condition 1 Weather – reminds me of Sault Ste. Marie Goon City – … Continue reading →

links for 2009-02-20

Closures coming in PHP 5.3 and that’s a Good Thing | CodeUtopia (tags: php) Web Development is Moving On – Are you? | Think Vitamin read this! (tags: read)

links for 2009-02-19

The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist | Our Blog | Box UK (tags: web)

Shared Items – February 15, 2009

The eyeballing game – How good are you at eyeballing? YouTube – Chad After Dentist – response to “david after dentist” 10th dimension – my brain hurts! there are 10 dimensions! This is why you're fat. – why… why does … Continue reading →

links for 2009-02-13

Bespin » Dashboard online code editor!! the only thing left before i get a cloud OS is for site to site FTP! (tags: code ide editor)

links for 2009-02-12

When can I use… when can I use CSS3!? (tags: css) Code sprints | drupal.org Read this! (tags: drupal hackathon) Improvements to core | groups.drupal.org If you want to contribute to the core of Drupal 7, here's where to start … Continue reading →

links for 2009-02-09

php|tek 2009 – PHP Conference in Chicago, IL I want to go! there will be a HACKATHON! (tags: conferences php) 50 Useful JavaScript Tools | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine must look at later (tags: javascript)

links for 2009-02-08

snippely – Google Code (tags: code)

Shared Items – February 8, 2009

Hot Beverages Via USB: The USB Coffee Warmer – Softpedia tested the USB Coffee Warmer and what it got was… – Softpedia – my coffee always gets cold! Ctrl+Alt+Del – 6 February 2009 ITOI children's interactive toilet concept is terrifying … Continue reading →

links for 2009-02-07

joshuaclayton's blueprint-css at master – GitHub (tags: css)

links for 2009-02-05

Infragistics Quince: UX Patterns Explorer not sure what it is, but it looks cool (tags: geeky)

links for 2009-02-04

Ajaxian » Designing Web Interfaces with Bill Scott and Theresa Neil (tags: geeky) 10 Must-Have Drupal Modules for Drupal Web Developers | CHROMATIC (tags: drupal) A JavaScript sIFR Alternative: Cufón (tags: javascript font) build.kiva: Docs – API Conventions kiva has … Continue reading →

links for 2009-02-03

Angel Investors | Angelsoft this site shows user activity in realtime on the homepage. crazy. (tags: geeky)

links for 2009-02-02

Zimplit simplest CMS ever? (tags: cms) 5 Popular CSS Frameworks + Tutorials & Tools for Getting Started css frameworks (tags: css) Preloaders.net | Free AJAX animated loading gif's | Rectangular preleader gifs! (tags: design)

Shared Items – February 1, 2009

YouTube – The LEGO Turing Machine – lego turing machine YouTube – LCD VS ??? – ha Pencil – a traditional 2D animation software – free cartoon-making software Jetpacks: Water-Powered Jetpack Would Be the Most Godly Firefighting Tool Ever – … Continue reading →

links for 2009-01-29

wwwsqldesigner generates SQL based on your design! (tags: sql database)

ARTiculate Comments Version 1.1

Version 1.1 is here! Changes since last release: Cursor leaves canvas when the mouse does Cursor is outlined, giving you a better idea of where you are drawing UNDO functionality is here! Get the latest version at http://code.google.com/p/articulate-comments-for-wordpress/downloads/list Check out … Continue reading →

links for 2009-01-28

Using command-line Subversion Best commandline SVN tutorial I've seen so far (tags: svn) Find broken links on your site with Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) (tags: geeky web) 50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography | CSS, Fonts | Smashing … Continue reading →

links for 2009-01-27

960 Grid System kit for designing webpages, includes PDF grid paper, templates for Fireworks, OmniGraffle, Photoshop & Visio, and CSS framework with demo HTML. The 960.css file itself is only 3.6 KB compressed. (tags: design) wg:Printing CSS background images (sort … Continue reading →

links for 2009-01-26

Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery (tags: jquery) ARTiculate Comments for WordPress Draw comments graffiti-style on WordPress posts and pages! (tags: geeky wordpress graffiti comments drawing websites plugin articulate art web2.0)

New! Graffiti Comments WordPress Plugin

The Articulate Comments WordPress Plugin is finally ready for live use. There are still some minor kinks to work out, but I’d better go help with the laundry. Check it out here.

Shared Items – January 25, 2009

YouTube – Is Chewbacca trapped in my nightstand? – cupboards that sound like chewbacca YouTube – Previously on Lost : What? – what? YouTube – Previously On Lost – Previously, on LOST I-Hacked.com Taking Advantage Of Technology – Inside Programmable … Continue reading →

links for 2009-01-22

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: A spider's view of Web 2.0 Asynchronous | Drupal ajaxiness! (tags: drupal ajax)

links for 2009-01-21

Conditional-CSS decide which browsers are affected by each css line, *in the css file* (tags: css, php) 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine (tags: geeky)

Shared Items – January 18, 2009

Google search results for "KH(Ax)N" for x=1 to 100 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! – somebody has a little too much time on their hands Star Wars retold by someone who hasn't seen it – Boing Boing – the counselor … Continue reading →

links for 2009-01-15

Submit Code | DrupalBin just a pastebin for drupal (tags: geeky)

Shared Items – January 11, 2009

A Jedi Swiss Army Knife! – Open it with the force…

Shared Items – January 10, 2009

YouTube – This is how you spin – THIS is how it’s done! Pizza dough spinning Skier Suffers Exposure – January 6, 2009 – heheheh

Shared Items – January 9, 2009

Concrete casts new light in dull rooms – optics.org – fiber optics + concrete Vintage Ads – a set on Flickr – weird retro ads?

Shared Items – January 8, 2009

YouTube – Weapon Of Choice – Fatboy Slim – Christopher Walken crazy dance YouTube – Evolution of Technology – HQ (Saturn Commercial) – german saturn commercial – the evolution of technology

links for 2009-01-07

Products : CounterSoft Gemini Issue tracker – check it out (tags: geeky)

Shared Items – January 7, 2009

Groverfield – CollegeHumor video – GROVERFIELD!

Shared Items – January 6, 2009

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | The Onion – America's Finest News Source – The new Macbook Wheel – no keyboard!

Shared Items – January 4, 2009

What Was That You Were Saying About Mozilla Not Being an Arm of Google? [Digital Daily] – Google pays Mozilla ~$66 million dollars a year to be Firefox’s default search engine. Woah. What Was That You Were Saying About Mozilla … Continue reading →

Shared Items – January 2, 2009

I Know You're Listening

Shared Items – January 1, 2009

Party December 30, 2008 YouTube – LittleBigPlanet : Little Big Computer December 29, 2008 – sharing something that i’m not subscritbed to?? Fonts and the Web December 15, 2008 Review: Ready, Fire, Aim June 23, 2008 – After reading this … Continue reading →

links for 2008-12-29

Shared Items Post wordpress plugin to post your Google Reader shared items to your blog (tags: geeky)

links for 2008-12-22

YouTube – funny cats cat owns dude (tags: funny)

links for 2008-12-21

YouTube – LittleBigPlanet : Little Big Computer little big planet calculator? i think i NEED this game! (tags: geeky games)

links for 2008-12-18

Short Stories: They're Made out of Meat by Terry Bisson (tags: stories)

links for 2008-12-17

Ninja Protest of Pirate Festival Gets Violent – AOL Video (tags: funny) Youtube, now in Super HD! Applying patches | drupal.org (tags: geeky) How to apply a patch to a Drupal module | AgaricDesign.com (tags: geeky) http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/l/o/look1982/Klaymen_.gif KLAAYMAN (tags: games) … Continue reading →

links for 2008-12-16

Ironed Tortilla recipe Video – 5min.com The real "iron" chef. (tags: funny food) The periodic table of awesoments (tags: funny) Lemmings! ….Lemmings!! Say good bye to your free time. (tags: games funny) Throwing shoes at President Bush – the game. … Continue reading →

links for 2008-12-15

creepy rabbit guy? (pic) what the… (tags: funny)

links for 2008-12-12

Bacon and Cheese Roll – FoodProof I LOVE IT (tags: food)

links for 2008-12-11

batman kills again apparently early batman had no problem killing bad guys. dark knight is a slacker! (tags: funny) When (Adorable) Animals Attack | Cracked.com name says it all (tags: funny)

links for 2008-12-10

jQuerify Bookmarklet » Learning jQuery – Tutorials and Information jquerify any site with jquerify and firebug (tags: geeky)

links for 2008-12-09

ubuntu's the bomb (tags: funny geeky) LondonCommons.net | say hello to your neighbours in london, ontario woohoo, local goodness (tags: community) DD_belatedPNG: better PNG background-image support in IE6 yet another ie6 png fix (tags: geeky) nativeclient – Google Code run … Continue reading →

links for 2008-12-08

YouTube – monkey fun A funny fast monkey meets a cranky dog (tags: funny) ThinkGeek :: Fly Stick Van de Graaff Levitation Wand The only thing that would make this better is if it shot little lasers at you that … Continue reading →

links for 2008-12-07

User Script Compiler Compile Greasemonkey scripts into standalone FIrefox extensions! (tags: geeky) YouTube – Remote Control Cooler When your ladyfriend can't get to the fridge, bring the fridge to your ladyfriend (tags: funny) YouTube – The Worst Line in Scriptwriting … Continue reading →

Homemade Firefox Extension – Hide Grooveshark Ads

Today I threw together a Firefox Extension that hides the huge and ugly Advertisement Sidebar on Grooveshark. Get it here, and let me know what you think!

links for 2008-12-05

YouTube – fingers breakdance YES! (tags: funny) YouTube – Lego NXT – THE ULTIMATE SAFE sweet! (tags: geeky) Hats of Meat what can i say? hats of meat. (tags: funny) WordPress 2.7 – 20 Must See Features i've got to … Continue reading →

links for 2008-12-04

ThinkGeek :: TikiTag RFID Tag Programming Kit ooh! (tags: geeky) YouTube – Not the brightest kid… I like turtles. (tags: funny) YouTube – CAT IN SPACE but… WHY are they throwing a cat at the wall?? … scientists…. (tags: funny) … Continue reading →

links for 2008-12-03

snopes.com: Beer Can House I miss rez (tags: funny)

links for 2008-12-02

jQuery UI – ThemeRoller sweet! theme jquery stuff (tags: geeky) A chicken head makes an excellent camera stabilizer – Boing Boing Gadgets (tags: funny)

links for 2008-12-01

Black Mesa: A Half-Life 2 modification Half Life 1 with Source engine (tags: geeky games)

links for 2008-11-29

Why Inline CSS And JavaScript Code Is Such A Bad Thing | Web Builder Zone I commented! (tags: geeky) predator (pic) heheheheh (tags: funny)

links for 2008-11-28

LogoPond – Identity Inspiration Again, I have to save this for later, even though Sean already tagged it (tags: geeky design) LazyTown featuring Lil Jon (vid) you have to watch more then 5 seconds of it for it to become … Continue reading →

links for 2008-11-27

Rick Astley rickrolls a parade (vid) hahahah (tags: funny) Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (vid) Perhaps the lowest moment on Leonard Nimoy's life. HILARIOUS (tags: funny) Garry Hoy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: sort of funny, but not … Continue reading →

links for 2008-11-26

Raphaël—JavaScript Library nice for graphs and drawing. some of the examples are really cool! (tags: geeky) Drawter.com – DrawAble Markup Language AAH! Is this… *sniffle* is this it!? (tags: geeky) Drupal Tree Diagram (pdf) looks like the took the term … Continue reading →

links for 2008-11-25

Terminator Salvation Poster flash movies posters!? (tags: cool) Foxit now works in browsers (tags: geeky) YouTube – Pointers Again, Sean shared it, but I don't want to forget to send it around at work (tags: geeky)

links for 2008-11-25

Midas: Canadian Car Chase (video) (tags: funny) Got a backup plan? (video) Sean shared this, but it's hilarious (tags: funny)

links for 2008-11-22

Zoe Anne Gavin | Facebook NOOOOOOO! (tags: funny)

links for 2008-11-21

Graffiti FAIL (pic) I don't think they get it… (tags: funny) Face Art Videos! weird… (tags: funny) Snow Driving Fail (video) London might be like this today :S (tags: funny) Picture Pages! (tags: funny)

links for 2008-11-20

EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing Sweet! I like the user colours. (tags: geeky) EPIC! (video) (tags: funny) CRTC allows Bell to continue internet throttling not good! (tags: geeky) Wolverine blade claws YES! (tags: funny) Computer says no. (video) (tags: funny) … Continue reading →

Referencing Code

At the office we have a wiki where we keep track of all updates to all projects. It isn’t very structured, which takes away from its usefulness, but I’m fine with that. I’ve developed a simple structure for posting updates, … Continue reading →

links for 2008-11-19

15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools (tags: Code)

links for 2008-11-18

Guitar Hero Sight Reading (pic) This *might* actually be impressive (tags: funny)

links for 2008-11-17

Let Internet Explorer 6 Behave Like Internet Explorer 7 With IE7.js — too good to be true? (tags: geeky) Dog Malfunction What is WRONG with this dog? (tags: funny) Scorched 3D Scorched! (tags: games)

links for 2008-11-16

Blogger blocked by US immigration (tags: geeky)

links for 2008-11-15

Mario and Luigi (pic) Father and son on Halloween (tags: funny)

Original moon landing video is lost!

Did you know that NASA’s original video footage of the moon landing has been lost? Apparently the footage that was broadcast (check it out) had something go wrong with the processing, and the video that everyone saw was not nearly … Continue reading →

links for 2008-11-14

Air Art on Vimeo (tags: cool)

Hide the code from the masses!

Gavin wanted to make it so that on our main site, posts with code would never show up to scare off our families. It would be very sad if they stopped coming to our site, because then we would only … Continue reading →

Next Month, Second Second

Today I stumbled upon (in the mostly literal sense, not the I-was-bored-out-of-my-mind sense) PHP Bug #33013 strtotime – ‘next month’ doesn’t work. This PHP bug report was filed May 12, 2005 by an irritated nick at netdupe dot com – … Continue reading →

New Site Design!

Lorem Ipsum… just kidding! It’s pretty late. What were we thinking launching this site so late! I hope you like it. Good night. p.s. there’s at least three bugs that we know about. They will probably be fixed before anyone … Continue reading →

Comic – Defective Return (and a Contest!)

Really, he’s just returning it because it’s red. That’s right, I’m hopping on the webcomic bandwagen. This is the first comic, there will surely be more. My comic will be mostly geeky, with many programming and web2.0 jokes. This brings … Continue reading →

I watched Star Trek and played…

I watched Star Trek and played Battle For Wesnoth all day with Sam. Tomorrow: back to work on my software!

Upgraded to PHP5

I’ve finally done it. Stefan Priebsch did a talk that I caught the last part of, 50 Reasons You Should Be Using PHP5 (the last few being, “PHP6 will be really neat” and “PHP5 is fun to do”). Not having seen the entire … Continue reading →

PHP Frameworks to Try Out

Coming back from the php|tek conference, I’ve made a list of some PHP frameworks that I’d like to get some experience with. I’m worried that Code Igniter is so easy though that I won’t like working with anything else! By … Continue reading →

jQuery and Code Igniter

There aren’t that many tutorials on how to use jQuery and Code Igniter together. I’ve written a bit on how to do some Ajax with jQuery and Code Igniter here, on the Code Igniter Forums. With jQuery, Ajax is pretty … Continue reading →

Fun Stuff

Cubescape is really fun. It’s like Lego but on the internet. Cubescape – Your own digital landscape via kwout Also, Phun is, well… fun! Download it here. Well, that’s enough nerdiness for now, I’ve got to go get ready for … Continue reading →

PHP Conference in Chicago

We’re going to Chicago! Kristel’s dad travels a lot and he found us some nice deals on hotel and flights. The conference has wireless internet access, so we can laptop it up while we’re there. Hopefully we can do some … Continue reading →

MUified Open Source Projects

I’ve noticed a trend in how I’ve handled my latest open source projects. I mean, after they’ve been released. I release the code, I set up my client’s implementation, and then I MUify (my word) it. What do I mean … Continue reading →

Code Igniter and WordPress

For those who don’t know, Code Igniter is an open source PHP framework. And of course, WordPress is blogging software. When you create a WordPress theme, you have to put it into the /wp-content/themes/folder. To list the blog’s categories, you use … Continue reading →

Web Developers vs. Business People

Web developers are supposed to make websites for businesses, for money. It’s their job. The problem is, web developers and business people very seldom speak the same language. It seems like a trivial problem, but it is often a very … Continue reading →