Status: Excited about beginning to interview applicants to BCM today! (2 hrs ago) 

CSS Sprite Mistake

 Published: June 6, 2010 at 8:38 pm in Sci/Tech

From time to time, people will ask me to validate and/or optimize their web code to streamline performance. People are now getting comfortable with using CSS sprites on their sites, but unfortunately I’ve seen this very easy-to-fix problem twice, and thought I should let people know how to resolve it. Read more  

How Long Will Flash Survive?

 Published: May 23, 2010 at 10:29 am in Sci/Tech

HTML5 has been on the horizon for quite some time, but the breadth of Flash-based web applications has continued to expand over the last few years. Apple dealt their first major blow to Flash by not supporting it on their flagship tablet device, the iPad. This caused media giants like Vimeo, ESPN, Time, CBS, and Flickr to offer an HTML5 compatible (and therefore, iPad compatible) format for users. Read more  

New Physician Blog

 Published: April 4, 2010 at 12:30 pm in Medical

There’s a new physician blog on the corner, and this one happens to be by the pediatric surgeon who not only taught me embryology but also about maintaining a routine (and sanity) throughout medical school. Read more  

YouTube’s Commentators (Cowards) of Anonymity

 Published: April 29, 2009 at 12:38 pm in Random

If you’ve ever watched a semi-controversial YouTube video and read through the text comments, I’m sure you’ve seen users get into pointless arguments employing their vast curse-word ridden vocabulary of four letter words. What baffles me is how these cowards actually think what they’re saying has any clout. It’s relatively easy to hide behind a computer in a shade of anonymity as they blindly criticize their fellow users for trivial matters. Read more  

Commending My Readership

 Published: February 24, 2009 at 10:00 am in Sci/Tech

I was analyzing my Woopra site statistics over the past month, and much to my satisfaction, only 30.18% of my viewers use a flavor of Internet Explorer (IE). This is music to my ears! In fact, the Worldwide Web Consortium data shows that Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera have all been picking up steam across the Internet. :-) Thanks to all of you who have replaced IE with one of the latter options!

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