David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
Video-embedding Test
This is just a test to see if videos embedded using the direct-play method function in a WordPress blog. Golden Gate Bridge - Night and Day Crossing
Hulu and Delve Networks: We Still <3 Flash
...HTML5? Not so much... In a move certain to cause much gleeful cackling and dry-washing of hands at Adobe HQ, Hulu and Delve announced that they are sticking with Flash, rather than making the Jobs-mandated move to HTML5. The money graf from Delve: Adobe Flash...
How to Fix Your Hacked WordPress Blog (part 2)
A 12-step program to get your blog so's it can go out in public again ...when last we left the hacked blog, it had managed to delete the phony users and admins, and the permalinkspam was gone. Jump ahead to last week, when I noticed that my Google AdSense boxes were...
How to Fix Your Hacked WordPress Blog
A 12-step program to send your out-of-control blog to rehab If your blog has been hacked, your first indication is when it starts acting like it’s in the late stages of particularly noxious drug addiction. Your once mild-mannered blog is a now a nasty Hollywood...
Hypnotic Motion
This is an experiment to see if adding some video files to posts is at all workable when this site is accessed via the mobile web. Please stand by. Hypnotic Motion
Gentle Persuasion
Spent this past weekend at a "Pick Your Part" junkyard in NorthEast L.A., with greasemonkey-for-a-day Mack Reed, in search of pristine parts from Ford Econoline vans for the xylovan project. Here, we see Mack wrenching on a particularly obstreperous and tricky bolt,...