Category: Technology

Last week I was in a heated “debate” with my friend Chris about the availability of WiFi internet. I suggested that maybe the reason why we do not have WiFi internet available in any major city is because the big corporations lobby hard to suppress the building of such infrastructure. Free WiFi internet would mean… Continue reading Japan launches Internet satellite

Ok so let’s say your phone number is 415-555-1234, but you live in a 916 area code. If you call 1800COMCAST, with your phone, they will automatically detect that your phone number is a 415 area code and transfer you to the 415 call center. The computers at the 415 call center pulls up your… Continue reading Comcast customer support is stupid

After reading through all the comments on a current digg submission regarding the rampant use of tables, I started to wonder why I even began coding in CSS. Although I have built a fair number of CSS layouts for web apps (examples in my resume), I have NEVER actually built anything using TABLES. This fact… Continue reading Why use CSS?

This is true for jQuery, and maybe true for JavaScript in general. If you have an input field that is disabled: <input type=”text” name=”example” value=”example” disabled=”disabled”> You cannot attach / bind any events to it ( ie. onClick, onSumbit, etc.. ). In order to work with those disabled fields, you have to make a separate… Continue reading Javascript: disabled input field

Its 2am and I just discovered something abnormal in CSS. If you are using the text-indent trick to hide text in your CSS, you must set the text-align value to LEFT. If it is set to text-align: right it will not work. It works in firefox, but not in IE or Opera. This is strange,… Continue reading Text Indent CSS Trick