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MetLife's cartoon throwback was pretty sweet! Bet it got a lot of people's attention.
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Tomorrow is a big day for my family, particularly my wife, as she'll be graduating from Missouri State University. She's made it my goal for the day to get excellent photos of the pre-ceremony gathering, the commencement, and the after ...
Today I learned a few important lessons in photography...
1) Make sure you have a battery in your camera
I hopefully learned both of these lessons today, after failing both of them; resulting in me getting no photos at all at church ...
Christmas came early for me at the Padgett household! It actually came at the same time as my birthday :-) I'm now the proud new owner of a Nikon D7000 and a gorgeous Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8
My wife allowed me to ...
Can you tell by the graph below when I started "actively" blogging on my site? If you guessed July, you'd be correct. Comparing Jan-June against July-October yielded an increase of over six times the amount of traffic per month - ...
I thought the iOS5 lock screen was supposed to be transformed into a fancy notification center? Well, I'm just not seeing it! I have the notification center ON, and several of the apps are set to "view in lock screen", ...
iOS5 launched yesterday (October 12, 2011). Apple's servers must have been swarming with traffic, and still, even today they are probably maxed out. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that the launch was without hiccups though. It took several ...
The following are snippets of Javascript code that I had to work with today...
Hide An Element
var variableName = document.getElementById("ID-OF-ELEMENT");
variableName.style.display = "none";
Get Form SELECT Values
var vacationType = document.getElementById("vacationType").value;
var departureCity = document.getElementById("departureCity").value;
var destinationCity = document.getElementById("destinationCity").value;
Checkboxes: Are They Checked / Status?
if(document.formName.checkBoxName1.checked == true){var ...
Simple robot man is built out of cardboard, three HS-55 servos, and a PICAXE-08M microcontroller. His head tilts back and forth and his arms move up and down.
My pan/tilt laser cat toy uses two HS-55 servos to rotate a laser pointer in a zig-zag pattern on the floor; allowing the cat to try to "catch" it. It does one rotation and then pauses for 5 seconds before ...
So, you've implemented a script to track all those users that are coming to your website and what pages each of them is going to using IP address tracking. Now the fun begins... What reports are you needing to generate ...