2006
Dec 
24

Browser Compatability Headsmack v2

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mike Lawton @ 10:48  

Once again I head on vacation, log onto my site from another computer and realize that my current design is completely screwed.

Back to default, I’ll fix it up after the holidays.

Merry Christmas everybody!!

2006
Dec 
22

A Story In Pictures and Song

Filed under: pics,Work — Mike Lawton @ 06:48  





“Last Morning”
by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

This is the last mornin’ that I wake up in this dirty city
Looking for the sunshine as the buildings block the skies
This is the last mornin’ that I wash in rusty water
Tryin’ to shave a face that I don’t even recognise

Down the hallway rats are skitterin’
I can smell the garbage rottin’
Hear the children cryin’ in an apartment down below
This is the last mornin’, that I’m gonna have to listen to it
I’m going home, yeah

This is the last mornin’, that I try to breath the heavy air
Fight the crowds, avoid the traffic, watch the world turn grey
This is the last mornin’ that I drink my coffee standing up
Smile and speak to strangers who just turn and walk away

This is a tough cold city here
And I’ll guess I’ll never cut it here
And I’m so tired of tryin’ to stand against it all alone
This is the last mornin’, that I’m gonna have to fight it
I’m going home, yeah

This is the last mornin’ that I wear these greasy overalls
Punch the clock and do just what I’m told to get along
And face the long evenin’, layin’ close beside my radio
Imaginin’ the kisses of the girl that sings the song

Down below the subway’s screaming
As I lay here halfway dreaming
Looking at the ceiling, wondering where, the dream went wrong (where, where)
This is the last mornin’, that I’m gonna have to think about it
I’m going home

I’m going home
I’m going home
I’m going home

2006
Dec 
21

Link Dump 07

Filed under: Links — Mike Lawton @ 11:32  

Can’t say anything yet… tomorrow, I promise.

  • dissension: How to Configure an $80 File Server in 45 Minutes – Still planning on that music server
  • Undelete Plus – I didn’t just do what I think I just did… did I?
  • Portable software for USB Drives – Starting to live more and more off my thumbdrive, especially for my office peecee
  • kuler: color palette generator – cool little time-waster/design-helper from adobe
  • instructables : Make the shutdown icon on your desktop and others. – anything to get me out of the office 5 seconds quicker
  • Geek to Live: Incorporate text files onto your desktop – Lifehacker
  • Geek to Live: Make a ringtone from any MP3 – Lifehacker
  • How to fix your iTunes artwork – Download Squad
  • Fabulist! – WARNING: This song will be in your head for the rest of the day (at least)
  • The Simple Dollar » 30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows – the days of needing to pay for (legit) software are starting to fade
  • TechEBlog » (Video) Trace Any IP Address – a little hacker fun for the holidays
  • Fimoculous.com – Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading – Because we can all use a few more things to read every day
  • Podiobooks.com – Serialized audio books in podcast form – especially for us commuters
  • DownloadPunk – mp3 store, no DRM, all punk
  • Baen Free Library – free ebook downloads
  • FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server – still working on that home server…
  • AltHack.com – How to Run Linux on a USB Drive
  • The Black Coat » BlackBerry Pearl Review: A Mac User’s Perspective – finally got rid of that lemon I had been lugging around… here’s my new sweetness
  • BlackBerry – BlackBerry for Mac – …and it works with my Mac!
  • The Disney Blog: Mary Poppins re-cut into Horror film – I am loving this movie trailer remix scene!
  • YouTube – Toy Story Requiem
  • Santastic II: Clausome – every year you need at least one good Christmas album that no one else has
  • Code – what it doesn’t do in real life (that is does in the movies)
  • Wil Wheaton’s Geek In Review: A Holiday Gift Guide for Geeks – it’s never to late to show your love
  • Rentometer, by iiProperty: enter an address and get rental comps back!
  • Geogreeting – a very cool way to say HELLO WORLD
  • Short stroll in a Chinese national park – wow. I seriously don’t know if I would try this. ok, yes I would.
  • YouTube – Charlie Brown Christmas – Performed by the Cast of Scrubs
  • Christmas 2.0: Subverting the Holidays With Re-dubbing – 10 Zen Monkeys – a list of re-mixed and re-dubbed holiday specials… this is what the interweb is for
  • ”Breakfast of the Gods Book One: The Last Good Morning”; By Brendan Douglas Jones – very cool online comic series
  • Colibri – slick app launcher, closest thing to Quicksilver available for the PC
  • OS X Portable Applications — FreeSMUG – living on my thumbdrive
  • The Portable Freeware Collection
  • Geek to Live: Carry your life on a thumb drive (or iPod) – Lifehacker
  • The 2006 Weblog Awards: The 2006 Weblog Award Winners – more new friends
  • Foreign Policy: The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006 – are you still paranoid if they really ARE out to get you?

  • 2006
    Dec 
    12

    BIG News

    Filed under: Uncategorized — Mike Lawton @ 11:49  

    Big news.

    BIG.

    BIGBIGBIG.

    I can’t talk about it right now, and I may not be able to post very consistently (if at all) for the next few weeks, but trust me.

    It’s good news.

    And big.

    BIG.