This week Andy reminded me of a game website that I used to go to all the time back when I was working. The job I had didn't keep me very busy, so I spent lots of time finding free online games to play and trying to master them. One of my favorites was the bee game. Andy actually mentioned this game back in December 2003 on our website, saying I got a high score of 22,460.

Well folks, today I got 34,820. Take that, bee game! If you find yourself in a situation that affords you a lot of free time, check out orisinal.com to find some fun little games. Some of our favorites (besides Bubble Bees) are Sunny Day Sky, Bugs, The Runaway Train, and Snowbowling.

CSS naked day that is. That's why our website looks the way it does right now. For those of you that don't know what CSS is, here's a description in 2 sentences.

CSS is a set of instructions which describe how a website looks. It offers nothing in the way of structure, it's only for appearance.

In the past, websites were thrown together with lots of hacks, bad code, and more importantly incorrectly USED code. Web standards, recommend separating your structural code (the HTML that so many of you kids know about these days), from the presentational code (the aforementioned CSS). When this is done correctly, the benefits are many.

So enjoy my nakedness for a day...it won't happen again until next year...or until I next take a shower.

I give you the "littlest superstar".

Google...how do I love thee? Let me count the ways:
- Your blindingly fast, efficient search engine.
- Your map software, which makes everyone else look like a bunch of bumbling amatuers
- Your desktop software, which, even though I don't use it, is amazing and useful.
- Your drive to make the internet a better, and more fun place.
- And yet another reason: Google Calendar.

Just released, Google's calendaring software offers a web-based way of keeping track of one person's (or many people's) events and happenings. I haven't had a chance to use this very much. It just launched last night so it's SUPER slow from all of the people trying to access it. But what I've seen is quite inspiring.

The default display shows a standard 1m through 12pm event calendar. Buttons at the top allow you to change your current view from day, to week, to month. Clicking anywhere in the grid pops open a window for that date/time, allows you to name your event and even gives you the option of setting alerts for said events.

Once you save the event, your current view will show a solid block of color indicating the duration of that event. I haven't had a chance to do much more than that but I can see this being HIGHLY useful for families on the go. I'm constantly asking Jaime what's going on for a certain day. With this website, I can simply check myself and not bother her. I can also look over "our" schedule for the next week, month, etc.

Supposedly it's even got a way to make your events public. I assume this might mean you can share events between other Google account holders. A perfect example would be that Jaime and I are traveling to both Illinois and Florida in the coming months. We could put these trips on our calendar and our families could see when we'll be in town or out.

I don't know about you but I'm voting Google for El Presidente in 2008!

Recently ESPN.com changed it's format from 800x600 standard to the more cutting-edge, larger format 1024x768 standard. As more and more people are bumping up the resolution on their Dell 19" LCD monitors, many websites look increasingly small and insignificant. What ESPN.com did is to reduce the amount of space on either side of their website and make it fill the monitor again. This allows for a greater amount of content to be above the bottom of the window.

As part of their redesign, they also switched to using an all CSS-based code template. CSS (or Cascading stylesheets) is a "language" which allows web developers to seperate the structure of the website (rows and columns) from that way the information appears to the user (colors, fonts, sizes, etc.).

There are many benefits to making this change among which are: Code becomes smaller in file size, Decreased load time for users.

In fact, the change is so tremendous that ESPN.com is now SAVING themselves 732 terabytes per month. If you don't know how much a terabyte is, think about it this way...the average computer hard drive is now about 80gigs. A terabyte is 1000 gigs.

Impressive no? Click the link below for a more detailed analysis of this story. Check the link

So a friend of mine sent an email to me today with a link to an animation for an >Adidas commercial.

Whatever it is, it's just awesome. The way the players run, then break apart when they come into contact with the soccer ball is just stellar. Kudos to 1st Avenue Machine for their great work.

Also, I'm listening to Maroon 5 right now. Have I ever mentioned that they're a fantastic band? Well, they're great. You should go listen to them. Check the link