DIY Safe and Easy Way to Preserve Child Footprints

February 26, 2009

This past Sunday, the kind ladies who run the nursery at my church asked us to bring our 4-month old child to get his handprint and footprint for the bulletin board. When we walked in the nursery, I saw a paper plate on the table holding a pool of blue liquid next to a sheet of construction paper.

I watched in mild horror as the ladies dipped my son’s hand in the blue liquid paint and attempt to press his hand flat against the construction paper. Only, my son closed his hand to make a fist. They had to pry his fingers open and feebly press down on the paper while he screamed and struggled to get away.

Afterwards, it looked like someone had spit a mouthful of blue paint onto the paper. It barely resembled a handprint at all. And even after the kind ladies scrubbed on my child’s hands to get the remnants of the paint off, there was still a slight hint of blue on his hand all day long.

I figured there had to be a better, easier way to get a handprint and footprint of a child. Here is what I’ve come up with.

Filed Under Geek Inspired, Graphic Design

The Kindle 2 Has Shipped!

February 24, 2009

Amazon Kindle 2

Amazon’s most recent version of their popular ebook reader ships out today. For all you of lucky people who pre-ordered, this is going to be a good week!

In case you haven’t heard about the Kindle, here’s the specs for the latest and greatest version, the Kindle 2:

Filed Under Internet

New DVD Releases This Week – February 24, 2009

February 23, 2009

Here are some of new DVD’s that are being released this week. Check out the rest of the list after the jump.

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
NFL Super Bowl XLIII
Breaking Bad Complete First Season
Ironweed
Oliver Twist

Filed Under This Week

Use Excel to Write Repetitive HTML Code

February 17, 2009

I have to maintain a rather old website that consists of nothing but flat HTML files. Until I get around to finally updating it to dynamic, database driven web site, I’m stuck with editing several dozen complex web pages. Every so often, I have to edit or create a new page that consists of long lists. While lists themselves aren’t complicated, it’s very time consuming to write all the HTML associated with a list of many items. Thankfully, I call upon a little trick that I’ve learned that uses Excel to write 99% of the code for me!

Filed Under Computer Software

New DVD Releases This Week – February 17, 2009

February 16, 2009

Here are some of new DVD’s that are being released this week. Check out the rest of the list after the jump.

High School Musical 3 Extended Edition
Dead Like Me: After Death
Changeling
Body of Lies
Hounddog

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Add Windows Live Hotmail to Your Gmail Account

February 12, 2009

It’s no secret that millions of folks have turned their allegiance to Google’s awesome online email service, Gmail. However, if you’re like me, you’ve probably begrudgingly kept that old Hotmail account around for reasons that cannot be defined by human words.

Until now, we’ve had to login our old Hotmail accounts every month or so to check mail from friends (if we can still call them that!) who refuse to update their contact list, and to keep Hotmail from erasing our account data because of the lack of activity.

Well, Hotmail has finally decided to add POP3 support. This means we can now add and receive our Hotmail emails in our beloved Gmail accounts or any mail client that supports POP3.

Filed Under Computer Software, Internet