Gregg

Take the ‘Rise’ on the go

Posted by Gregg on March 22, 2008 in Web 2.0

Announcing m.riseofthephx.com, or really my use of mofuse.mobi. If you ever need one of my bad puns or one liners and are away from the traditional pc, just direct your browser to m.riseofthephx.com to see all my posts formated for your device. Very crafty indeed.

Take this test… I failed

Posted by Gregg on March 18, 2008 in Entertaining Me is Easy

Found in Adactio’s del.icio.us feed

Creating a music video to make friends and family envious of your mad skills

Posted by Gregg on March 13, 2008 in Life Experiences

Ran across a very cool tool on Techcrunch yesterday and wanted to show you what I came up with in 24 hours.
Janelle, my wife, and I celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary this Saturday so I put together a video of our kids (and a few of the parents) using a tool called, Animoto. You [...]

Verry cool trick (Text + Image+CSS3 = Crazy Delicious)

Posted by Gregg on March 12, 2008 in Entertaining Me is Easy

First, this only works in Firefox and Safari, that I am aware. IE users please let me know. As CSS3 starts its introduction into the mainstream people are coming up with some really cool stuff. For example take Erik Kastner’s(Meta | ateM = Clever) coding goodness at http://metaatem.net/highlite/. This just begs [...]

where did the last 5 hours go

Posted by Gregg on March 12, 2008 in Entertaining Me is Easy

So I saw this a while back and wanted to take a stab at it. Two things stacked against me.
A) I know nada about illustrator. pure photoshop background (vector what?)
B) Far from a graphic artist, exccept for lewd sfw doodles.
So I found this tutorial and took a crack at it. Those of [...]

RIP John Alvin

Posted by Gregg on February 15, 2008 in Life Experiences

I am a product of 80s and 90s film. I gravitated toward geekyness (computers, AI, and eventually the web) in large part due to Star Wars, ET, Blade Runner, etc. Stories that were other worldly and at the same time amazingly human. Not to mention all the non Sci-Fi films(Gremlins, Legend, Lostboys) [...]

How many lives do you have and where is the #$% phone.

Posted by Gregg on February 14, 2008 in Entertaining Me is Easy

So I was trying to put my 4 year old to bed when he asked to play ninja/alien/robot. A game where we shot invisible lasers at each other from all appendages and attacking each other with fake swords, all the while blocking with fake shields. Well after a while Noah unleashed a [...]

This clip is counting awesome

Posted by Gregg on February 8, 2008 in Entertaining Me is Easy

In order to insure we adhere to family values on this blog sometimes it is of great importance to sensor inappropriate material. Therefore certain measures were taken to clean up this clip… from Sesame Street - The censored Count.

Thanks Tanner for bringing this to my attention

What’s in your library

Posted by Gregg on February 7, 2008 in Web 2.0

One of the most cost effective ways to keep your team in the know is to periodically turn them loose on Amazon with the mission of stocking a reference cabinet. Tech books can be expensive and often fall out of date within a year or two of purchase so it becomes critical to [...]