http://carpepm.net seize the night Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:01:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have spoken about this before locally, but it is quite fascinating what one can find. Embedded in a number of Chinese characters are what is believed to be pictographic representations of many of the Genesis stories from the Bible. In this example, the verb 'to create' is made up ... http://carpepm.net/2009/12/old-chinese-characters/ Behold, the mixer I have been waiting for. It can record 16 channels simultaneously at an affordable price yielding professional results. It is on the very top of my to buy list at the moment. The company supports linking two mixers together to allow for 32 channels of recording, but ... http://carpepm.net/2009/11/studiolive-digital-mixer/ Let's pretend you have a web page where you want to use a URL rewrite to load content from a db where you have specified a guid with a year and month from a date. For example, you want to visit /2010/01/page-name/. Behold the solution below to add to your ... http://carpepm.net/2009/11/url-rewrite-for-a-page-manager/ You've probably seen Iron Man. One of the coolest parts of Tony Stark's mansion was the window in his bedroom. It was literally a transparent screen hooked up to his computer network. That technology is not far away. Samsung recently unveiled their own transparent OLED screen. Imagine waking up in ... http://carpepm.net/2009/11/a-transparent-screen/ Say you want to sort in Excel by columns W, V, S, M & L in a spreadsheet and the actual data starts at row 6 from columns A to Z. This script sorts any number of rows by those columns starting at row 6 in the Excel spreadsheet. Sorting ... http://carpepm.net/2009/11/macro-sorting-in-excel-2007/ Red, the camera company that made the Red One camera has been working on a whole slew of new film cameras. It will be a wonderful day when I can use one of these. They film at a higher quality than most theatrical release films. Nonetheless, I'm more than content ... http://carpepm.net/2009/11/red-camera-the-scarlet/ Lets pretend an IT department has hidden the button that allows you to edit in html mode when using FCKEditor on a website. No problems there. Just install Firebug and run the following code to toggle between html source and rich text edit modes. Firebug allows users extra control when ... http://carpepm.net/2009/11/firebug-fck-editor/ Amidst the rumors and Snopes denounced stories of Mars coming so close to earth that it would be the equivalent size of the moon, Sydney was hit with a massive red dust storm. The girlfriend of my brother in law took this picture from her flat in Sydney when it ... http://carpepm.net/2009/09/sydney-dust-storm/ Apparently, I have a world audience now. The above image is a color concentration map from Google Analytics of countries that people are visiting this blog from. How strange that something I just did for fun would get so many hits. I look at about 10,000 page views per month. ... http://carpepm.net/2009/03/world-audience/ You always get interesting stuff when it come time to work on an advertisement. Who would've thought that I'd be animating eyeballs, crashing people into cars, and everything else I can find time for in a few short days. Well, I better get back to it. http://carpepm.net/2009/01/working-on-a-project/