Mar/100
Chrome Browser on City of Cedar Rapids Website
Found a nice little bug when I went to view the City of Cedar Rapids home website using my Chrome browser. When I first encountered this issue, I thought that everything was just condensed so small that I couldn't read it. After I got fed up with continually having to switch to IE tab I realized that the issue was something a little different. Once I scrolled all the way down to the bottom, I was able to get to the content that I desired. It appears that the menu system that is implemented on the page is causing a weird effect that breaks everything. It is much easier to show you a picture of what I encounter.
Feb/100
Iowa football 2010
I like to think that I have been pretty reasonable when it comes to predicting the season records in years past. My highlight came in 2006 when I said we would go 6-6 before the year started. It was the first time I made it to the spring practice and I wasn't impressed one bit. Truthfully, we won games I thought we would lose and lost games I thought we would win. So, I like to think I don't drink the kool-aide just for the sake of following recruiting.
Feb/100
Cedar Rapids Mobile Speed Vehicle Test Deployed Today
From the Cedar Rapids city website today, it looks like all systems are a go for its newest revenue stream, and I'm not talking bout the red light cameras. The first trial run of the "mobile speed vehicle" was successful according to the latest news release. Today's 166 violators (it nabbed in 90min) will be happy to know that they will get off scot-free but tomorrow begins the real deal. I can't say that its really a waste of taxpayers money though, claiming to nab a driver going 55mph in a 25mph school zone is probably a good thing. Here is the details of the press release.
Feb/100
iPrep 101 with iExtreme 1.61
It seems that the last update that Microsoft pushed is causing the newer games not to play on my Xbox360. You know, to play my saved games and stuff. I needed to get the 1.61 update of the iExtreme software for BenQ drives, but I ran into a bit of trouble trying to get it to work. The previous flashing I did went off without a hitch and I assumed this would as well. Wrong.
Feb/100
Bold Move By Cedar Rapids Council Not Really Bold At All
Wow. Just wow. The city of Cedar Rapids just lost another notch of respect from me today after learning they are actually considering to use $540,000 from city’s solid-waste-and-recycling operation to purchase some plastic "CartGuards". The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that local inventor Kim Brokaw has not been able to sell his invention to the private sector because "his product would increase the cost of the cart too much and so put them at a disadvantage in the marketplace".
Jan/100
Windows Live Messenger – Not On Startup
Ok, so I used a program called FileHippo to check for new updates for all my installed programs on my machine. What a great program! I've used it to keep all my stuff up-to-date as well as finding other popular programs that are being installed that I don't have yet. Everything with the program is great, but I ran into a little snafu when attempting to update my Windows Messenger. I'd HIGHLY recommend the FileHippo application to keep all those programs updated. However, this isn't a FileHippo issue but *gasp* a Microsoft issue.
Jan/100
Orange Bowl Honeymoon
My wife and I celebrated our belated honeymoon by taking a trip to Miami to watch the Iowa Hawkeyes play in the Orange Bowl. Besides the coldest weather Florida has seen in the last decade, it was a great trip and I can't wait to do it again soon. This was actually the first bowl game that I have ever attended and I've learned a few things that should help me out in the future if I am lucky enough to go once more. Here are some things of note that we experienced during our trip.
Dec/090
Splurb
I have to share this website. The interface is not as aesthetically pleasing as something like Digg, but I find some of the stuff on here pretty neat.
What is splurb?
Splurb is a cross-referenced list of the social web's most popular links. To get listed, a link must be popular on at least two social websites.
The result: a trimmed down list of the best links on the web.
Links are sorted by popularity over time and sized by number of sources
Dec/090
YOURLS – Your Own URL Shortener
Everybody is getting a URL shortener these days. Google (Goo.gl), YouTube (YouTu.be), Facebook (Fb.me) and other sites have found the needs to brand their own links. It got me thinking, what would my URL be if I had my own shortener? How hard is it to setup one?
Dec/090
I Am Not A Tea-Bagger
Is talking about religion and politics bad for personal blogging? If it is, let me apologize for this post up front but I am going to do so anyway. I've been pretty interested in this whole Libertarianish movement thats been stewing around in the world of politics. I say "Libertarianish" because most people are not ready to go whole hog on all the Libertarian principals (Gold Standard, removal of Federal agencies, etc...). I've pretty much agreed with a majority of what Ron Paul has talked about since the 2008 election in regards to our military and economic policy. Which is weird because I consider myself a somewhat progressive minded individual. The problem I currently have, is all these wack-job Conservatives who believe Obama is the next coming of Hitler have tied their identity to this movement as well. It seems like anything that is now anti-Obama is the new Libertarian or "Tea Party" point-of-view. I find this to be pretty outrageous considering the type of administration these assholes backed when George W. Bush was El Presidente'.