Amazing what a little Father's day cash and some inspiration can get you.

It seems every few weeks these days, I'm asking myself why I'm blogging. I haven't yet come up with a "resonable" answer, but I also know that I'm still really enjoy it, even if my posts have become sporadic at best.

I had some fun with GarageBand, iMovie, and a favorite R.E.M. song. The video was inspired by the intro, which comes from the bootleg "Low", as Michael Stipe introduces "Belong".

Content Connections (the company I work for) is launching a new online learning tool called My Power Learning. MPL is a learning style preference assessment - it helps students (especially) as well as parents, educators, or anyone - understand the modes in which they learn and communicate. The assessment is followed by a lengthy and personalized report that explains how you can study and communicate better, based on what you now know about your own learning style.

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Mark D. recalled my attention to the following hilarity:

I got some pushback from folks I trust, or at least like, and decided the flash header needed more work before it was ready for prime time.

I've been having some fun with Flash lately - witness the new header on this site. :-) It's not perfect, I haven't figured out the font embedding correctly, so the quotes seem to appear in some default (Times?) font on any machine but my own. Grr. Still working on it.

This morning a coworker was commenting on how cool it was that Dojo includes functionality that will compress their JavaScript library by converting all human-readable javascript to short identifiers made up of underscores and numbers or letters ("_a","_1", etc). Compression births obfuscation.

You know, I've worked in all kinds of environments doing web development, and Flash is making me crazy. I've been bangning my head on this thing for a day now, and it's just leaving me hot under the collar. Grr.

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After Merlin posted about this cool little get-simple wallet, I had to have one. My old leather hip-brick is beginning to cause chiropractic problems, and I'm all about getting simple these days.

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Neologism: wimplicity - what results when you're afraid to add any more features.

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Simplicity is profitable: right on. Southwest Airlines rocks.

After A's IEP meeting today, we had the opportunity to use one of my personal favorite terms, high-up mucky-muck. Jodi always gives me a weird look when I use it, so I decided to finally look the durn thing up. After a few false starts, I found the origin on answers.com - It's actually "High Muck-a-muck":