the life and times of emijayne

Oh.. and while I’m on the subject, there is this great set of Power Toys that integrate nicely with Windows.  Granted, some or all of these things have most likely become a part of Vista and Win7, but for those of us still behind the times, they make life a little easier. The one I [...]

This Bulk Rename Utility for Windows is just.. pure awesomeness.  I had about 25 albums of pictures that needed to be renamed before uploading to our photo gallery at work.  Once I decided on a format that I wanted to use.. it took me only about 30 minutes to go through them all.. well.. minus [...]

I have around 10 drupal installations for various work projects.  I love them.  Drupal *is* the awesomeness. As awesome as Drupal is, using a WYSIWYG editing module makes life so much easier for posts and pages.  My choice is fckeditor.  It has everything I need and could want.. it has the perfect auto exceptions (for putting limited or [...]

Wow.  Truly brilliant article from Whitney Hess:  See For Yourself: About the Power of Observing. At our core, interaction designers are anthropologists. We design interactions between people and people, and people and things. There is only one way to better understand people and better anticipate how they behave: observe. The user experience profession is pretty [...]

My fashion sense, although not perfect, has always been a bit too picky for certain purchases.  Those Christmas sweaters with the little scenes on them.. Crocs (kids might be forgiven for this).. parachute pants.. Well, my cousin posted something on my facebook wall about the dangers of wearing Uggs. Quelle surprise!  I’ve always hated them. [...]

Have you ever replaced the worn out carpeting in your home? If you’re like most of us, you drag that carpet out into your driveway or garage, pull out your weaving loom and yarn, and to begin to re-stitch each and every worn-out fiber. Of course you don’t! You drag that soiled, grimy, ugly carpet [...]

Months ago, I wrote this way-too-complicated Views set of blocks so that the child menu items would appear beneath the text of the parent page.  It was ridiculous.. I had like 15 blocks and I hadn’t even finished entering in new pages yet. Today I decided that I would make another push at getting this [...]

(I almost forgot!!!) Ada had been taught mathematics from a very young age by her mother and met Babbage in 1833. Ten years later she translated Luigi Menabrea’s memoir on Babbage’s Analytical Engine, appending notes that included a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with the machine – the first computer programme. The calculations were never [...]

I occasionally catch up on akinoluna’s “the day to day, semi-normal life of a female marine“, and she had this very interesting note back on the 13th: John Basilone is one of the famous Marines we have to learn about at boot camp and they talk about him all the time in Marine Corps history, [...]

from pi day dot org: Pi, Greek letter (), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi = 3.1415926535… With the use of computers, Pi has been calculated to over 1 trillion digits past [...]