So after a long time of making beer, I have gone with the wine. Follow along as I attempt to make stuff that tastes good.
(Firefox or Safari recommended. Internet Exlplorer not only won’t work, bit I will make no attempt to fix that.)
My first winemaking kit
Testing out HTML 5 video embeds
Goof off movie I made just to test this.
Epic Chat - Whither iPad
Jim (Obama) and I (Bush) talk about the introduction of Apple’s iPad, among other, funny things.
Mobile detection part 2
Alright, as I told you before, I enabled mobile detection. I did some work on it this weekend and I think I might have figured out the Droid/non-iPhone weirdness. Anyone care to take another shot?
Mobile detection enabled
I’ve enabled a plugin for Textpattern that detects mobile browsers. I’m using it to send mobile browsers to a separate stylesheet that is specially formatted to look good on a mobile phone. I can only test it on the iPhone, and I love it there, but I’d appreciate it if anyone viewing this on a different mobile phone could leave a comment telling me how it’s working.
Leaving the comment is part of the testing, too, so please leave it here and I can see how it works out. Thanks.
On the origins of my perceived lunacy
I like explaining what inspires me to do certain things. With this site being my biggest creative outlet for things I’m not paid to do, the people that visit here tend to get tastes of some pretty weird stuff, and often those people (you!) think I’m a pretty strange dude. That’s probably true, but without explaining why it happens the way it does, I feel like I won’t ever be able to move on to the next strange thing. So today I want to explain some of the more recent things this site has housed for me.
Video series
It’s actually been quite some time since these began, but I have produced two long-running video series over the past year and a half: A Memo to...
I see a paradigm shift in online video happening
Something I think about quite a bit (for some obvious reasons) is video quality and how the proliferation of online video has affected it. I don’t mean videos that are well-done, good, Oscar-worthy, or anything like that. I think of video quality in terms of the picture quality, technical mastery, etc.
I always found it odd that while the FCC was mandating US television broadcasters adopt the standard known as HDTV (moving from what is called NTSC) back around 2005 and 2006, YouTube was becoming the powerhouse that it is today. The two things were happening at the same time, and what made it odd to me was that while we were all foaming at the mouth to get our hands...