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James Earl Jones reading the Raven FTW

Posted by Gregg on May 22, 2010 in Entertaining Me is Easy

So the kids love bed time stories and I still pull out the Seuss, Hippos, Sendak, etc, but now the older 2 kiddos are craving a bit more notoriety in their slumber story. They have become fans of Aesop and the Grimms. I have also been mixing in some poems and a while back we [...]

‘Humpback’ is the Weekend at Bernie’s of the One Thousand and One Nights

Posted by Gregg on May 20, 2010 in Entertaining Me is Easy

Just read the Humpback, a short story in ‘The thousand and one nights: or, The Arabian night’s entertainments, Volume 1′ to my kiddos as a bed time story. The crazy stuff I read to my kids, I know… Weekend at Bernie’s of the Arabian world.  Also trying out embedding Google books in a post.

Post Mother’s day Twitter banter

Posted by Gregg on May 10, 2010 in Random Thought

Text Replacement… Without Flash

Posted by Gregg on May 7, 2010 in Design

I always dreaded creating image headers for websites, but always saw the headers as the perfect place to add style and tie the content to the design. Then along came SiFR(www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr). I could now embed font in flash and use java script to call upon all the font, and css to provide additional [...]

Getting observe_field to update a text_field in Rails

Posted by Gregg on November 13, 2009 in Adventures on the Rails

I am writing this post as I scoured page after page with out luck and came up with this solution.  Others may already be all over this method or have more eloquent solutions but there people didn’t have their content search engine optimized.  So for those in need here ya go.
I have used observe_field on [...]

prosthetic hand with sensation of touch

Posted by Gregg on October 19, 2009 in Entertaining Me is Easy

pretty amazing stuff: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8313037.stm

Where the Time Goes…

Posted by Gregg on May 18, 2009 in Entertaining Me is Easy

So it has again been eons since I have updated this site. Over the next few days I am going to take a stab at making this better reflect myself, the company, my portfolio, and my hair brain ideas. Hold tight, cause here we go…

Explain Twitter to your grandma

Posted by Gregg on February 9, 2009 in Web 2.0

What the ‘H E Double Hockey Sticks’ is Twitter?
I have been asked this question on many occasions and my response has varied and often fallen short of best describing what all the twitter is about.  So finding this video gem was very nice.

First post via iphone

Posted by Gregg on January 19, 2009 in Random Thought

I have recently picked up the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. It may be the influence of the upcoming inauguration but I have been drawn to the histories and personalities of our forefathers. Something about their work ethic and high ideals act as nourishment to my brain and being.
So one of the reasons I [...]

history of the internet.. very well done.

Posted by Gregg on January 15, 2009 in Entertaining Me is Easy

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

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