http://todd-a.com code words Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:46:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Give Up and Use Tables project is a nerdy (but totally practical) inside joke developed by the Creative team at echo during my time there. What's even nerdier is that we actually built it. It's a tool to remind us when we've argued enough with CSS. ... http://todd-a.com/2008/02/29/give-up-and-use-tables/ On Labor Day, I re-launched annsharpsteen.com, the website of author Ann Sharpsteen. Emily Keafer did the graphic design. For the re-launch, I converted the backend from a custom content management system I'd built two year earlier to WordPress blogging software. The reason for the change was a ... http://todd-a.com/2007/09/03/annsharpsteencom-v20/ On May 1, 2007, I began working in the Creative Department at echo as a Site Operations Specialist. I slice designs, hook up the content management systems and write the code behind our sites. I ended my full-time employment with echo in February 2008 though I still work ... http://todd-a.com/2007/05/01/echomusic/ On 15 April 2007, I re-launched Bob Krumm's blog with improved functionality and a handful of WordPress plugins implemented to increase his visibility. Previously, I had built Bob's state senate campaign site and moved his exisiting Typepad blog into WordPress. http://todd-a.com/2007/04/15/bobkrummcom-v20/ In early February, I launched the 3rd version of Prince Market Research's website. I was brought in as the designer and developer for v.2 a couple of years prior. Version 3 improved on v.2 by giving PMR a customized content management system that I built in PHP and ... http://todd-a.com/2007/02/16/pmresearchcom-v30/ [This was a long blog entry, unpublished as a formal review.] I finished Ayn Rand's Anthem over the weekend. My opinion -- and I say this as a guy with a shelf full of Ayn Rand's writing, with no political axe to grind and with a generally favorable opinion of ... http://todd-a.com/2007/01/16/anthem-ayn-rand/ [Originally published in the Nashville Independent.] Watching Casino Royale makes it clear that there are really two schools of Bond movies split along the lines of the character's greatest actors: Connery and Moore. Ask anyone who is the quintessential Bond and the answer inevitably comes back: Connery. But Moore ... http://todd-a.com/2006/11/22/the-bond-conundrum/ The Borat movie is as hilarious as it is offensive which is leagues beyond any movie I've ever seen and well over the top of any contemporary "reality"-based media. The movie's strength comes from Sacha Baron Cohen's absolute fearlessness in using his character of an ignorant Kazakh reporter to ... http://todd-a.com/2006/10/05/borat/ Have you heard The Horrors? You know when you find a band that sounds just like they look? It's so tremendous. That's like The Horrors. Totally trashy. Kinda foreign sounding (they're English but they sound Swedish or something). A bit retro. Like what ... http://todd-a.com/2006/09/13/the-horrors-ep/ I'll be frank with you: my initial fandom of French Kicks, Strokes, Walkmen, etc faded. Pretty quickly actually. I loved what they were going for originally (or what I thought they were going for) but they all seemed to make a conscious decision to get off the path ... http://todd-a.com/2006/09/12/tall-hands-ep/