ote to self, prostate make your own light box for photographing food.

Rads in Repose had a funny post about Nerd attention deficit disorder. Here are a few of mine: I must type vigorously on the keypad. Just to let it know who is boss. I must be able to cross legs when coding. I must chew gum, or at least know where some is while coding.…

Hi, I have not been updatig this thing regularly. I’m swamped with wedding projects and although I should have a few minutes a day at work to post, there is lots of website blocking going on at my company. So no surfing! Get back to work. I’ll be better at updating when we are on…

Another nice project if you are like me and have friends and collaborators scattered across the globe and have writing projects. Vyew

In writing this cookbook, I’ve had to learn the proper terms and abbreviations for things. Stuff that I thought I just knew to be true aren’t always true, and things I knew and didn’t know why, are being confirmed. Strange this cooking terminology. Lynn found this site Real Food 4 Real People.

get rid of your tables! use label instead. Check out this great tutorial on webcredible.

This place looks pretty fun. If you are looking for html/css front-end developer job in or near Palo Alto, link CA, online look them up. Mozes.com. Their tagline is: Send and receive mobile messages to and from your favorite bands, social groups and friends.

This weekend we stayed in Boulder Creek. Tom played with Absinthe Glow in a radio show on KPIG and a live show At Don Quixote’s in Felton. It was a fun weekend and I feel a little discomboobulated being back at work.

Found this recipe for instant chocolate cake.

In response: Dear Thu, thank you for sending my DVD of Food Party Episode one so quickly. Also, thank you for the lovely letter and the super cool business cards. I am having an awesome time right now, thanks for asking! I’m making a recipe book, though it isn’t as funny as your show, it…

after some rooting around, I found this great and simple example of changing the opactity of an image when mousing over an anchor tag. Thanks CSS Drive

You know you are in the financial dristrict when Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence You know you are in the financial dristrict when the homeless are leaving empty patron bottles on the sidewalk. Hope it was a good night.

Adobe has recently acquired a web based document editor called Buzzword. You can create, edit and share docs online and avoid the hassles of version control. Buzzword allows you to set permissions of different users so they can edit, only add comments, or only read. There are several export options including word, html. pdf, rtf,…

There have been more and more cases of karoshi being reported in Japan every year since it’s first reported case in 1969. Read the Wikipedia entry for karaoshi. Here’s the latest case as reported on Yahoo!

My $1.50 lunch Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence Ramen packet from rainbow (mad3e from actual food ingredients), site steamed bok choy, garlic, enoki mushrooms and miso paste. All assembled in my cubicle with some hot water from the coffee maker.