Credit Crisis Explained

Found this video through Daring Fireball. It’s a great explanation of what is going on in the financial world.

February 24, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

Review: Fired Up!

This is the new cheerleading movie about two football players who give up football camp for cheerleading camp to try and hook up with cheerleaders. Bottom line, not a great movie, wasn’t expecting much out of it, so wasn’t too disappointed. What frustrates me is that the joke content is very young, but the visual content is somewhat sexually inappropriate. That didn’t make for a great combination for me. That being said, there were a few funny lines and a ton of throwbacks to my childhood cheerleading experiences. The vote 3 on the Tubbs scale. ...

February 23, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

Github and Gists

Github is a web site for common git repositories. It has been around for a while, and I have been a member since before they became public. Basically you can create your git repos on the site, add code and whatnot, branch from other repos and then sync up. I use it mostly as a backup for my current project, which is a private repository. Anyway, I wake up this morning to see that there is a new little item on the Github dashboard, “Gists”. I click on the link and get brought to a page that looks like Pastie. I’ve always been confused about how long the code stays around at Pastie. I would have like to post some links to Pastie stuff in the blog, but honestly, I haven’t trusted it to be around. So, maybe Gists existed on a more permanent basis. I started hunting around Github for some documentation on Gists, with no luck. ...

February 5, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

Logo: Take 2

I was told that my first logo design lacked a certain “coolness”. This is take two: For those of you who don’t get it: char is the C keyword for a one byte of data. Think of it as a standard character in the English. Basically, it is one definition of the smallest snippet of data.

February 2, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

Logo Idea: Take 1

I’m not much of a graphic artist, but I want to think of myself as a designer. Maybe just a User Interface designer, but a designer none the less. I want to create more personal works. Images, pictures, presentations, and website. I would like to “brand” these creations with a mark that represents me. I have always wanted to. This “brand”ing mark would be personal logo. Logos are hard to create, and I’m no expert. This is my first attempt: ...

January 29, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom