A friend of mine was asking about the effect I use for the social media icons in the sidebar here. I told him that's personal and I would prefer he not bring up such iniquitous filth in the polite company of my daughter. When I realized he was talking about my website, I figured I would apologize by writing up a quick article about it and some of the caveats I ran into.
Read moreYou may have noticed the little "Support Us" image off in the right-hand navigation over there. Yea, right over there... go ahead and take a look. See it? Great. Now you may have just asked yourself, WTF is that anyway, and how can I support my favorite authors whom provide me with the quality content I enjoy reading on a near daily basis? After you've pondered that a moment, you may then drift off and ask yourself "And who was the frickin' genius who came up with the coloring code for milk jugs, and why doesn't skim milk have those pretty lil' pink tops anymore?".
Of course, I would then have to pontificate; Yea, what the hell did happen to the pink caps, and are you sure they were the skim milks? And why does Canada have to be so retarded* about the whole deal?
But I digress. SprinklePenny provides an extremely easy to use service that allows us to support the sites we love by way of what they call tiny payments *cough* Micro-Payments *cough*. When you register with them, you decide how much you want to spend, and you decide how much goes to which sites that you want to support, and distribution is handled automatically simply by visiting said sites. It's a brilliant frickin' idea, really!
So far I've seen only one issue with the service... no Mootools integration. Well now, we can fix that quite easily.
Read moreWell now, this is different, yea? For those of you coming here expecting to see the Mavenous online dictionary, my sincerest apologies. I've decided to take Maveno.us on a new journey. I have kept a backup of the old dictionary site, and, with enough requests/threats, I will put it back up in a different capacity. Again, my deepest apologies.
For those of you that know me as a programmer, this is probably what you expected to see if ever you've ventured onto this site. I've felt like the mechanic who's car is always broke down due to there only being 19 hours in the day I'm allowed to remain awake. I've gone through literally 20+ designs for this site, and finally realized that my OCD will never allow me to be completely happy with any design I come up with, so I need to go a different route.
I've decided to make a compromise and put up what I have, and create a series of articles which chronicles the progression of this site.
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