Month: August 2004

CSS Optimizer Service

Just spotted this CSS Optimizer service at Flumpcakes that should prove useful. It shaved off 2kB off my CSS file. While not a lot, it certainly adds up over time. Pretty nifty, although if you don’t use the pretty print feature (turning it off compresses even more), be sure you keep a local copy that…


Closer To Free iPod

You may remember I posted about the FreeiPod.com site that has been making the rounds on the net as people have decided to try it, and actually gotten their free iPod (or mini iPod). So I decided to try it. You need 5 people to compete offers, which is quite simple, and you get a…


Your Name Key To Sexiness

According to this research, I should be getting laid all the time: “Men with “front vowels” in their names — sounds formed at the front of the mouth like the “a” in Matt — were considered sexier than men with “back vowel” sounds like the “au” in Paul, she concluded. No such luck. Maybe I…


Poop Is Life

My roommate, in her infinite wisdom, decided to share with me this morning two important morsels of life that I have somehow missed in my 25 years of living: Poop is life. The birds and the bees song is not about sex, but about poop I’m already having a crappy day (pardon the pun.)