Today, I discovered Wordle. It’s this neat app that allows you to create beautiful word clouds using custom text input, an RSS feed, or your Delicious account. Well, I wanted to input my Facebook status feed, but alas – I could not find it! After a little research, I finally found a useful post about [...]
Tutorial: How to make a custom (memorable) profile icon for Twitter
January 26th, 2010
Recently I’ve been making a bigger effort at being an active member of Twitter. Doing so made me realize that I wanted a cute, memorable icon as my profile picture. I wanted people to see me, as well as get an idea of what my focus is on Twitter (which lately has been photography). Step [...]
More news: Kasumi Shimizu has published a blog
January 20th, 2010
My friend Kasumi Shimizu has recently decided to start a blog at her own website: KasumiShimizu.com She is an aspiring model from LA, and has more to present than just the images you see in her pictures. You can read her blog or follow her on Twitter: @kasumishimizu If you’re not following me already, you [...]
Setting up WordPress as a dictionary site
October 8th, 2009
Recently, I helped launch a website that served as a silly custom dictionary. The concept was simple enough: create an online dictionary using only custom definitions. At first, I did some Google searches to see if there were any open-source dictionary apps. No such luck! Then it occurred to me I should try WordPress. Searching [...]
Toggle (enable and disable) a form field with a checkbox: JavaScript 101
July 23rd, 2009
Today at work I was creating a form. I’m not a big JavaScript buff, but one of my tasks was to use a checkbox to toggle a form field between “enabled” and “disabled”. So, after browsing the web for a solution, I decided it would be simpler to roll up my sleeves and get dirty [...]