December 20, 2013

Github pages / Jekyll tutorial

After several failed attempts at getting set up with GitHub Pages, I vowed that if I ever figured out how to do it, I’d write it up. Fortunately, I did eventually figure it out, so here is my write-up.

Thank you for this. Finally was able to realize the potential of Jekyll.

November 1, 2013

Scientists decipher dog-tail wags

When the animals saw an otherwise expressionless dog move its tail to the right (from the tail-wagging dog’s point of view), they stayed perfectly relaxed.But when they spotted a tail veer predominantly to the left (again from the tail-swishing dog’s point of view), their heart rates picked up and they looked anxious.

October 10, 2013

Rich People Just Care Less

Goes along with what I have been thinking lately.

June 13, 2013

The dangers of being valuable

When you internalize the idea that you’re precious and irreplaceable in a company or an industry, it’s easy to be wooed into life-altering decisions like handing over years of 80-hour weeks to companies whose work you don’t actually care about. The more you accept this flattery as your due, the easier it is to be hypnotized by interests that conflict with your own.

via: The Pastry Box Project

June 4, 2013

Sheepdog bodyguards’ protect endangered penguins from foxes, saving them from extinction

No foxes have killed penguins in the past seven years”

June 3, 2013

Text-align: Justify and RWD

Did you know that one of the most powerful tools for fluid and responsive layout has been a native feature for every browser since HTML 4?