Archive for August, 2006

LG’s Chocolate

Friday, August 25th, 2006

This phone apparently sucks. See that cool scroll wheel (just like the iPod!!!)? Turns out it’s a poorly designed four-directional pad. Okay, WWAD (What would Apple do?). Let’s assume they’re designing a phone (which everybody believes they are). My guess is that they will attempt to minimize the number of buttons on [...]

the housing bubble

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Forbes has compiled a list of the most expensive places to rent in the US. Here are the top 15: RankLocation$/sq foot Class A$/sq foot Class B 1New York, NY27.84 18.31 2San Francisco, CA27.1719.91 3Los Angeles, CA25.1218.39 4Boston, MA25.0817.49 5Honolulu, HI24.9117.69 6Northern NJ23.3515.80 7Stamford-South CI23.2214.30 8Nassau-Suffolk, NY22.4016.66 9Orange County, CA21.7117.94 10San Jose, CA21.4717.51 11San Diego, CA20.3714.96 12Oakland-East Bay, CA19.0116.99 13Washington, DC18.8515.15 14Central NJ17.2414.01 15Philadelphia, PA16.0911.70 I’m not sure what how Class [...]

sidebar

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

I’ve attempted to ‘fix’ the sidebar on the right of the page. The sidebar used to be defined in a div with height 100%. The problem with this was that when you scrolled down, the sidebar stopped when the content ended or where the initial height of the page ended (whichever was larger). [...]

wwDc

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

The mac-nerd world is eagerly awaiting the WWDC keynote on August 7th. Everybody’s got predictions and some are sure things: Intel towers Leopard others are a little more uncertain: new Finder Intel Xserves iTunes Movie Store and/or new iPods Most of the rumors relate to the shiny things that users want but not the things developers want. Let me try [...]