I've found that true honesty is hard to come by on the Internet these days, especially in the realm of advertising. Everybody's promising one thing and delivering another, or making you jump through a bunch of hoops just to "qualify" for something you never really wanted in the first place. Today...  read more

Over the past few days at work, I've been exposed to even more problems with IE than I could have ever imagined. The most recent issue is that, while IE supports nested tags when they're added via DOM methods, but when they're placed directly in the source HTML, its parser doesn't properly add t...  read more

I just got the official word back that I'll be starting soon as an in-house web developer for Jackson National Life. Their world headquarters is here in the Lansing area, and I'll be working at the gorgeous building pictured at the right. I'll be doing client-side dynamic site work, and integrati...  read more

As is now public information, I've recently joined the development team over at VGMix, in hopes of helping them bring their site back up quickly. Also, as part of this arrangement, I'll have help getting Magma off the ground, as well as a built-in affiliate right out of the gate. This will mean g...  read more

No, it doesn't have anything to do with Logan's Run. Today was my last day as an employee of the State of Michigan, and the start of my life as a full-time web developer. Of course, I can't divulge any details about my assignments, but I can definitely say that I'll enjoy full-time PHP work. And ...  read more

Well, I tried my hand at Linux again, this time going with Ubuntu, since it seemed like a respectable distro with a decent installer. After a minor hassle getting my screen resolution fixed, it seems to be mostly in good shape. Of course, there must always be something to go wrong, and this time ...  read more

I've finally been mentioned in someone else's journal! I feel like I've arrived somehow. http://www.livejournal.com/users/truestar/60937.html It's not exactly how I'd hoped to be seen by the world, but that's life. I figured the least I can do in return is mention truestar here, and maybe she'l...  read more

We just got this SimpleShare 250G NAS in at work, and it actually works out pretty well. It's a neat little thing, especially since it runs Linux. That's right, it's got Linux onboard, and that's not all. It runs a Broadcom 4780 at 300MHz with 32M of RAM, which is enough to run OpenWRT. It's a s...  read more

Well, I finally did it. I managed to scrape together a job working in PHP, and it actually pays pretty well! A lot more than my current job anyway. With some extra money coming in, I'm thinking of getting a laptop so I'm not tied to a desk while I work. I like insanely high resolutions, so when I...  read more

Well, I just set up a blog, so you can all fully appreciate how uneventful my life is. Not to say I have loads of free time, but I'm always tied up doing uninteresting things. Mostly web development, but sometimes I might have something interesting to report, like maybe a stubbed toe or a particu...  read more