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Entries for November, 2008

The Asp.Net Site Has a Problem

Have you been to http://www.asp.net lately? I have no idea why, but it’s slowing my browser to a crawl for a period of 5-10 seconds just after the DOM renders. I’ve tried across several machines, and it’s really annoying, especially since it happens on every page load instead of just once. I think it’s the [...]

Funny or Offensive?

This is some good stuff here – all shot in one take, if you pay attention. I found the link cruising on Kaliber10000. Still not sure if it’s offensive, but whatever – life’s too short to waste time thinking about that…

C# Collapsible Properties

Here’s a sweet way to display properties. Basically, I had a bunch of generic properties that I was using shorthand notation for, and one that was a read-only property which served as an aggregate of a few other properties. I couldn’t shortcut it, but the implementation of it was trivial, so I hid it inside [...]

Go Visit Gonzobikes.com

I’ve been hard at work in the labs working on a new site, gonzobikes.com. Gonzo Bikes is a sister company to blaq design, whose website I also wrote. There’s not much content there right now, but it’s my favorite site I’ve ever designed.

The Spectre of Death Haunts McCain-Palin

I went to vote early on Halloween day. Sadly, I was just about the only person in line that dressed up, but it did give me a unique opportunity, as you can see above. I was really hoping for touchscreen voting (for the sake of the pic, not security of my vote), but beggers can’t [...]