Ben Partch 

Alas TV I bid you a fond farewell

June 11th, 2009

Well tomorrow is the big day! The day that TV goes away here in my house. The digital switch is upon me and I have decided to do without TV or at least broadcast TV anyway.

My choices we’re to either by a $500 plus TV, get cable/satellite or purchase converter boxes and new antennas. My decision, none of the above.

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Facebook will add friendly URLs

June 9th, 2009

I reopened my Facebook account today to a pleasant suprise. FB is going to implement human readable URLs for user profiles, so instead of:

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Plug ins are great, but…

April 27th, 2008

There are a few Wordpress plug-ins that I always use no matter what site I am building. They are in no particular order:

• Google Sitemap Generator
• Feedburner Feedsmith
• Simple Tags
• Subscribe to Comments (assuming there are going to be comments)
• Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
• Optimal Title

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10 Must See Horror Movies

October 28th, 2007

So I am a big fan of horror movies. I like both gory and non gory ones. As long as they are scary and don’t suck they are good but I cannot list all of them. So here are 10 horror films that I feel are a must see each Halloween (no particular order).

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Up, Up, Upgrade and Away!

September 24th, 2007

I remember back when I was in grade school and would be absent. When I returned a day later, I would have a sub conscious feeling that I had missed something. Not necessarily school work or learning something that had been taught the day before, just that I had missed out on something drastically important.

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Sound Object, SharedObject

September 17th, 2007

Okay so the client wants to add a background sound to their web page. You have advised against this but they still want you to do it. Whats the best way?

<embed src="audio_file.wav" autostart="true" loop="true" volume="100" hidden="true"><noembed><bgsound src="audio_file.wav"></bgsound></noembed></embed>

No, no no…
There are a few issues with the above, but mostly you know there needs to be an off button, and you do not want users to have to turn the sound off every time they come back to the site.

The best way (or at least the way I would do it) is with Flash by using a SharedObject (a flash cookie) to remember if the user has pressed the stop button.

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