Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2012/01/24/happy-lunar-new-year/
Hello Kitty ♥s Beard Papa’s.
As seen in Cupertino, CA.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/12/10/nobody-uses-the-post-office-any-more/
Especially in Mountain View, CA, the heart of the Silicon Valley.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/12/08/ask-osama/
Hell yeah, my man is going to play the bin Laden card!
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/11/28/seatbeltbear/
Stuffed Polar Bear demonstrates proper airplane safety procedure.
This is the passenger who had the middle seat on my flight back from Chicago yesterday.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/11/23/is-cloudflare-saving-me-money/
I was poking around my CloudFlare Control Panel, and pulled up stats for the past month, from Oct 11 to Nov 11. It says it had blocked a bunch of attacks on my site, and consequently saved me over 5GB in bandwidth.
I said to myself, "I pay for bandwidth! Maybe this free service is saving me money?!"
“Really,” I said, “I pay for bandwidth, so if CloudFlare is saving me bandwidth, it is saving me money!”
But 5GB seemed kind of high. So, I checked my invoices from RackSpace. Here is the outbound bandwidth I have been charged for this year:
Invoice Date Bandwidth Out 11/11 4.660 GB 10/11 4.972 GB 09/11 7.534 GB 08/11 5.467 GB 07/11 6.402 GB 06/11 5.978 GB 05/11 4.694 GB 04/11 6.294 GB 03/11 6.254 GB 02/11 9.652 GB 01/11 7.117 GB
RackSpace charges me on the 11th of the month, and, conveniently enough, I started using CloudFlare around October 11th. The highlighted line above is my first month on CloudFlare. It is my lowest number of the year, and it is conceivable that I could have totaled 9.5 GB in October since I pushed more than that in February. I’m skeptical that they are saving me as much as they claim to be, but for a free service to speed up my web site and save me even a little money . . . that is a good deal in my book!
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/11/07/duck-pond/
Sneaking through an apartment complex I came upon this wall of water and a dozen or more ducks enjoying the pond.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/11/02/leaving-la/
I get Mei back from the land of endless highways this evening.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/27/halloween-office-party/
I am not clear as to whether a Christmas theme was planned by these folks or if things just came together.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/25/javascript-hack-hide-an-element-on-a-page/
JIRA is an issue tracking system that is really flexible, but sometimes presents irritatingly arbitrary limitations.
I have been working on a screen which uses multiple tabs. The tabs are there to make it easier for the user to find the fields they want to edit, without scrolling through a single long, complex issue. But every tab has a Comment field rendered on it, which makes things confusing, and makes each tab look like it needs scrolling.
So, just remove the Comment field from the Screen, right? No, it isn’t in there. So, can I remove Comment via the Field Configuration Scheme? No, it is mandatory. Damn your arbitrary limitation, JIRA!
Anyway, I don’t normally speak JavaScript, but I managed to gin up the following snippet to paste into a Field description which appears in the screen I wanted to tweak. It finds the element containing the Comment, and sets its style display attribute to none. As the page loads, the Comment box is rendered, but once the page load completes, the Comment box disappears.
It is ugly, but effective. Also, it is helpful for me to learn JavaScript!
PS: Thanks for the Guidance, Ed Burns!
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/21/hawaiian-airlines/
In the morning fog, my ride to tropical sunshine waits.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/21/yahoo-urls-cafe/
It is a little thrill to query Google Maps for “yahoo urls” — URLs is the name of one of their cafeterias, where I am right now for a Meetup.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/14/leaving-on-a-jet-plane/
Flying down to LAX to visit the wife. I booked at the last minute which means I paid a bit more for Main Cabin Select on an otherwise full flight. That means I get to go through security in the short line and board the plane first. A good start to the weekend and time enough to post a photo.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/08/hack/
Enjoying Dmitri Samarov‘s new novel about driving a taxi in Chicago, I looked up at my cafe table in Mountain View, CA and noted that mine was the only analog screen. Technologist that I am, I’m just not ready for an e-reader yet. I’m too attached to hardbacks and paperbacks.
My mother, however, has a Nook. She used to drive a cab in Chicago.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/06/rip-steve-jobs/
. . . and thanks for all the fonts!
You will be missed, even by us non-Apple-fanboys.
UPDATE: Glenn Kelman has written the most eloquent words I have read that explain why Steve was an inspiration:
Many eulogies celebrate Steve in terms of his “products” — those mass-produced little gadgets that we love for letting us check email in front of our friends — and lose sight of his grass-strained spirit. What always moved me about Steve was the calligraphy and the LSD, the passage to India and his firing from Apple, his struggles at NeXT and his return from the wilderness.
The insistence on Steve’s perfection, on the vast difference between him as a producer and us as consumers, seems inhuman and even lonely to me. I wish we could take a moment in eulogizing Steve to grieve for him as one frail human to another, and feel in his passing the miracle of every human life; so many other people, geniuses on a smaller scale, are struggling his struggle. It hurts me that we have so much love to give to Steve and not to them.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/09/28/orthodontia-for-america/
At the beginning of our current economic crisis, I embarked on an infrastructure project to make needed improvements to my existing jaw line, and to stimulate the economy through orthodontic stimulus spending. This spending was completely paid for by my personal revenues, and did not contribute to any deficit spending on my part. At least three orthodontic professionals, one oral surgeon, one x-ray technician, and countless support staff received their paychecks as a result of this infrastructure program.
This morning, we took the scaffolding off to unveil my new and improved smile.
The economy could use a little more stimulating, though. With any luck I can make a contribution to consumer confidence by smiling at people.
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