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Google ranks raibledesigns.com #1

in 2 different queries! I found via my usage statistics today that both "j2ee designs" and "raible" (of course) turn up this website as it's first choices. Cool, and after checking the cached versions, that was before adding new meta tags last week!

Am I color blind?

As I sit here pounding the keyboard on a late night, get-it-done-before-the-deadline (that's tomorrow), I stumbled upon's Eric Costello's standards compliant Blogger template with DOM-based font customization features and silly randomly morphing color scheme. See it here - you might think you need your eyes checked too! (Tip: I had to refresh in some browsers to get it to work.)

Reason to QA your site.

This guy seems to work for Microsoft, and you can tell, have you looked at his blog in Mozilla? It gets a little ugly, not unreadable, but enough to make you wonder.

My opinion on browsers is: IE rocks on both OS X and Windows XP for one reason, and one reason only - it opens faster. That's it, the only reason I have. I really like Chimera (for OS X) and Mozilla, but they just take too long to open. I'm impatient. Even on Linux, Konquerer tends to open faster, so I use it more than Mozilla.

Please oh please let it be true.

I found a station that might play Mark and Brian (don't knock it 'till you try it) - we'll see tomorrow morning! It's been SOOOO long since I've heard them... please oh please let it be true! [ Listen Now ]

My Perspective on Blogging

I found this via Blogging Roller: are you addicted to blogging? I would be if I had better things to say, and I knew people were listening. One reason I recently did this site as a blog, rather than the old site, is because I *liked* reading people's blogs on the web. So now this is a blog, will it get me any new clients? I don't know - probably moreso than the last site.

As one friend asked me, "Who is your target audience?" I told him it was folks like me - developers who are interested in reading about what other developers have to say. The one problem is that if I ever get a client that stumbles upon this site, they might not know what the heck my company does. But, I would have to say that this new site explains what I do a lot better than my old site.

The absolute best part about blogging is when someone else notices that you have something interesting to say, and puts a link on their site. It's like getting an article written about you in the local paper.

On Vacation.

I'm outa here, to return next week. I'll be enjoying myself in other parts of the country.

Java Winamp-like music player via Web Start.

I stumbled upon this cool little app today by way of rebelutionary.

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Checkout JLGui - it's a Web Start enabled, Winamp skin compatible music player that supports MP3, Ogg, WAV and a bunch of other formats. In native Java. Now that is cool.
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I agree!

Music to code by.

If you enjoy listening to music while coding all day, I recommend downloading Rhapsody. It allows you to listen to pre-programmed "radio stations" for free - helps me cope with the fact that I can't listen to Mark and Brian via KGON and the internet anymore.

I got the phone

a couple of days ago, and I love it! It's a GSM phone, and I don't know if they're all this way, but it sounds clearer than my home phone. It almost sounds like I'm in the same room as someone when I'm talking to them. This is a big plus for me as I've always been annoyed by the bad sound of my previous phones.

I can check my raibledesigns.com e-mail using the IMAP4 protocol, and I can also check my Yahoo! Mail anywhere I can get a signal. Very cool - helps to cure my e-mail addiction. I hooked it up to my Powerbook G4 via infrared with GSM Remote and was able to have all my contact's numbers in almost no time.