Jake's New Blog

Tag: Nerdy stuff

  • Bringing it back

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    On my very first blog, I had this thing that I did called Jake Knows Everything. It was kind of fun, and useful in keeping my creative juices flowing. The page pictured above is actually the 3rd generation. Here is the 2nd. For some reason, I can’t find the original. Anyway, I haven’t really kept…

  • Switching things up

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    I had some time on my hands last night, so I decided to modify Jakesnewblog a little bit. I widened it out to 950px and dropped in another mini-sidebar on the left. I also extended the width of the slide show banner by 150px. Since I had the pictures all cropped to a specific size…

  • Sushi/Symetry

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    I think that for most people, part of the appeal of sushi (and possibly food in general) is presentation. I love looking at it. It is so neatly compartmentalized. Depending on what I order, it generally comes packaged very symetrically, as well. For whatever reason, all of those things are very satisfying for me. I’m…

  • Christmas Eve Cookies

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    After we got everything packed and ready for our trip. Reagan and I decided to make some cookies to take to Piper’s nurse today. Reagan started making some sugar cookies and realized that we didn’t have a star shaped cookie cutter. Like most people, we have a roll of aluminum flashing under our sink from…

  • WP migration

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    I have been threatening for a while and now, I finally did it. I have abandonned “Blogger.” The transition was a bit rockier than I had expected, but utlitmately, I think that I like it better. I haven’t decided if I’m going to put a playlist back on here yet. I know that most people…

  • Upgrade

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    I thought it would be such a great idea this year, to take advantage of the Black Friday sales and buy some computer crap. Tadd and I went to the Microcenter in Boston around 10 A.M.. Finding a parking spot almost took longer than the amount of time we actually spent in the store. I…

  • Love me some Google innovation

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    Who else thinks that the new Gmail customizable themes are pretty awesome? Am I just easily amused? I thought it was so great when they released this new feature the other day. I, being a fan of street art, went straight for the graffiti wall background. I wanted to see the variations depending on which…

  • Nerding it up

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    I have been a busy nerd for the last 30 hours or so. For a while I have been kind of annoyed with the Blogger setup. HTML seems so boring, when compared to PHP. Plus, I felt like it was kind of annoying, having stuff spread all out over the place. Anyway, last night I…

  • Woolworth Building

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    I snapped this shot last night when I was leaving work. It is the Woolworth building, all lit up to commemorate Veterans’ Day. I have to say that I am kind of annoyed with blogger.com, these days. It used to automatically size photos when I posted them, even if I was hosting them somewhere else.…

  • Inner nerd

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    When Sarah and Jessie were here visiting, we were able to get in a little bit o’ nerd talk. Jessie is a legitimate web design dude. We were talking about how great Adobe CS3 is. I used it extensively when I was working on the design of the genealogy websites for my extended family, but…