http://kevinguyer.com/blog Without so much as a tricorder. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:30:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am continually fascinated by this effect and decided to take a few pictures downtown today to shift.  Here are the results from the 2 buildings I could get some altitude from.  Note that the photos are BIG (4000x3000).  Long live Richmond. http://kevinguyer.com/blog/?p=61 Modern geek culture embraces sporting our messages.  It became crystal clear to me at a recent Jonathan Coulton concert that t-shirts were  being worn less to cover our pasty and deltoid-lite physiques than they were to get our message out.  Odd as it may seem, it seems to be the ... http://kevinguyer.com/blog/?p=48 Alright, I admit, I'm a Portal junkie.  I discovered it somewhat early on and have rolled around in its success like a dog in a crap filled ditch, revelling in the stank of the world loving the game, no, the experience, like I have.  It makes you feel good to ... http://kevinguyer.com/blog/?p=40 Awesome.  This guy had 2 huge neodymium magnets (the kind that are decidedly not toys) and somehow let his finger get in between them.  WHAM.   These monsters shattered the bone, tore the nail off, lived up to the warning on the packaging.  Lessons that end in a little gore are lessons ... http://kevinguyer.com/blog/?p=31 I've been into podcasting for a long time now, both as a listener and as a creator of content.  The successes that I have had come partially from my being picky as hell about what I listen to and attempting to apply those standards to what I make.  Here are the guidelines ... http://kevinguyer.com/blog/?p=27 I finally wearied of the stock screensavers on my Kindle and decided to take matters into my own hands, replacing what Amazon provided with a few of my favorite Science, Science Fiction and Fantasy authors instead. Instructions to change out your screensavers are below as are the pics I ... http://kevinguyer.com/blog/?p=16 This is a quick, simple (functional yet inelegant?) piece of IIS-friendly code for a user-driven slide show that I was asked to whip up. A user wanted to post an mp3 along with some slides that the viewer could flip through along with listening to the audio.  In an effort to ... http://kevinguyer.com/blog/?p=15 I came across the Windows-based desktop tool extraordinaire 'Samurize' the other day courtesy of my friends at Lifehacker and have been running with it ever since. The app does a number of things, the one that really interested me was integrating the contents of a text file on your desktop and ... http://kevinguyer.com/blog/?p=14 So I upgraded today from an earlier version of 3 to the new beta 5.  Biggest difference?  Not one, not two, but three sets of navigation buttons!  Yeah, behold the future of surfing UI you chumps. So I checked and IE 7? One back button.  Opera v9.27?  One measly back button. ... http://kevinguyer.com/blog/?p=13 My old, standard code to do this in a previous version was throwing errors and required some research.  The working code included a workaround for what some are classifying as a bug (It looks though as if MSFT closed it as 'by design'). Your mileage may vary. To implement this you ... http://kevinguyer.com/blog/?p=12