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CSS Specificity

Friday, September 5th, 2008

This is old-hat now but it’s still useful. The actual specificity of a group of nested selectors takes some calculating. Basically, you give every id selector (”#whatever”) a value of 100, every class selector (”.whatever”) a value of 10 and every HTML selector (”whatever”) a value of 1. Then you add ...

How to Install a Font in Ubuntu 8, the Right Way

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

I was perplexed at how to install a font in Ubuntu 8. I scoured the web and found out how but then I lost the link. Here’s basically what it said. (If this looks oddly familiar to you, please let me know so I can give you credit). Open the Run ...

I’ll Be Back Soon

Friday, June 27th, 2008

I’m taking a brief hiatus from posting while I gear up for a new(ish) venture. Soon I’ll be moving the blog to it’s permanent home at dblogit.com. I’m also doing a special writing project and finishing up The Wilderness — a project that is a year in the making. Stick ...

How We’re Spending Memorial Day

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Last year we were most likely grilling up hot dogs for residents of Biscayne Bay apartments. I forget. This year we’re spending Memorial Day as low key as possible. We played outside in the back yard. The kids swam in a little play pool we got from Freecycle. We ate ...

Saying Goodbye to Google

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I decided to say goodbye to Google today. They've got great search results for sure, but they're the man and they've got way too much information about me. I'm going to stick with my love for the little guys and the locals. So what am I going to search the ...

Even Titles Aren't Original Anymore

Monday, January 7th, 2008

It seems there’s a growing discontent with the state of graphic design these days. The prevelance of cliched designs and formulaic methodologies are getting old.I’ve got one theory: money. It takes less effort to get a product out there with a "tried and true" (translated old and overused) design than ...

Link Fu For You - Dec 17, 2007

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

url PSDTuts - Photoshop Tutorials and Links - 9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design 9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design, Spoonfed Photoshop Tutorials. This is a pretty good write up. One that would be worth going over each point analyzing a design. url Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years ...

Here is a Method that is Helping to Improve my CSS Framework Workflow

Monday, December 17th, 2007

As CSS frameworks gain popularity there will likely be more and more tools on the web which can help in creating base style sheets and HTML templates suited for them. But for the time being we’re left with mostly unusable Javascript concepts that don’t do more than suggest measurements for ...

The Go Daddy Party

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Here we are at the Go Daddy Christmas party. The Gin Blossoms are playing, wonderful deserts, a HOTT wife and I’m snapping pictures of the company chopper…Mobile post sent by dbme using Utterz.  Replies.

Link Fu For You - Dec 12

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Here's a LINK to the Face! url Monsters of the Programming World Some of the difficulties we experience in any project really, but specifically geared toward programmers. url Typographic Contrast and Flow I love's myself some pretty text. I hope this helps to make a difference in web typography. url Generate a Color Palette from an Image | ...

Atomic Euphonic is now John Gibbons. Just Kidding.

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Okay, Pixelfish pointed out this funny Wikipedia meme that's going around. Go to the Wikipedia homepage and hit the random article link 12 times. The first one is your band name, the second one is the album name, and the last 10 are the tracks. I thought it was kinda ...

My winter mink

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

This year I’ll be wearing my dog, Kayla, to keep warm. Oh she’s like my little lamb, how sweet :-)Mobile post sent by dbme using Utterz.  Replies.

Curious - Atomic Euphonic Particle

Saturday, December 8th, 2007



It’s Raining in Phoenix Hooray!

Friday, December 7th, 2007

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My tips for stress free travel

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

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Days Like These Days - Atomic Euphonic Particle

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007



Nine O'Clock - Atomic Euphonic Particle

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

<p.Each week Atomic Euphonic creates a song idea, or Particle. Use it how you wish, ignore the crying babies, and don't forget to mention me if you use it. Nine O'Clock by Atomic Euphonic/Dustin Boston is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Box Charmer - Atomic Euphonic Particle

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Each week Atomic Euphonic creates a song idea, or Particle. Use it how you wish, ignore the crying babies, and don't forget to mention me if you use it. Lullaby by Atomic Euphonic/Dustin Boston is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Stuck

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Stuck Originally uploaded by dustin.boston I heard Maddie crying this morning. I just left her for a little while–I was thinking she just wanted to get out of the crib. When I finally went to go get her out for breakfast I realized that she was stuck. ...

Lullaby - Atomic Euphonic Particle

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Each week Atomic Euphonic creates a song idea, or Particle. Use it how you wish, ignore the crying babies, and don't forget to mention me if you use it. Lullaby by Atomic Euphonic/Dustin Boston is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.