Old Blog Posts
- New Wordpress Blog I've switched blogging systems and am now blogging via my new Wordpress installation which has its own RSS ... more »
- Padding Content Boxes with CSS (topic: CSS, web design, padding, margin) For the longest time as a CSS programmer I was frustrated by (what I thought was) CSS's inability to pad c... more »
- Rounding Percentages (topic: long tail, programming, algorithms, percentages, rounding, logarithms, math, tech) Maybe someday somebody will find this through Google and it will be useful. My explanations might be inade... more »
- Read a Feed Today (topic: firefox features, feeds, live bookmarks) If you're not what you'd call a technically inclined user, but you use the web to keep up with your friend'... more »
- Atom 1.0 (topic: atom, rss, syndication, hacking, tech, blogs) This site now sports a shiny new Atom 1.0 feed--one of the few that do as of 08/07/74. The process was simp... more »
- Django? Okay, I'm listening. (topic: tech, programming, web, python, open source) I'm growing disgruntled with the various web programming environments I use on a daily basis. Each has hig... more »
- The Blessings of Heaven (topic: tech, open source, programming) May it cause the fig trees of open source developers who post example code right on the front page of their... more »
- How to Hide Source Code (topic: hide source code, obfuscate, javascript, web page, tech) I first put this on the web years ago, but I thought I'd blog a bit about it. If you do web design or own a... more »
- Why I love Colorado (topic: colorado, trees, mist, road) Because if you want to see something like this you can just drive for a few minutes.
- Why I love Kansas (topic: kansas, rainbow) Of course, besides the fact that I grew up there and my family lives there. This picture was taken a few m... more »
- More Banjo Recordings (topic: banjo, music) Despite the risk of my server being inundated by thousands of eager downloaders and being trampled by swarm... more »
- We apologize for the recent outage in service. As you no doubt have noticed, DPJ has been offline for several days, costing us millions in lost sales, dri... more »
- Find the Dog in this Picture (topic: life, the dog) Try to find the dog in this picture!
- J2EE & Learning Abstractions (topic: j2ee, tech, thought, learning) This is the second in what has ended up being a series of posts where I develop this train of thought. Rea... more »
- What's with the recent blog entries? The deluge of recent entries were re-posted from my blogs.sun.com blog, written over the course of 2004. I ... more »
- Learning Information Technology by Misinformation (topic: thought, tech, learning) This is the first in what has ended up being a chain of posts where I develop this train of thought. Read t... more »
- JXnuts (topic: tech, web, java, xml, xhtml, css) As an XHTML/CSS advocate amongst Java/XML nuts, sometimes the Web Standards sermon falls by the wayside. On... more »
- The Conspiracy is the Theory (topic: conspiracy theory, tech, thought) Conspiracy Theory is analogous to an internet worm, henceforward referred to as worm.ct, where the systems ... more »
- Collapsing the Multiverse (topic: tech, programming, software paradigms) In the web application I work on, the data in question exists in one of about four phases at any given time... more »
- Transient Theory (topic: information theory, cellular automata, tech) Okay, this is going to be bizarre, but interesting. Last year I read Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Scien... more »
- Learning the Banjo (topic: banjo, music, learning) I must admit, I'm a rock-n-roll guy. I play electric guitar, and my effects board is an electronic nightmar... more »
- Tree of Data / Sea of Data / Web of Data (topic: tech, web, information architecture, information modelling, xtm, topic maps) The problem of finding relevant information on the web is a pretty big problem when putting together a larg... more »
- My Favorite Firefox Tricks (topic: tech, firefox, browsers) To celebrate the long-awaited release of Firefox 1.0, I'm going to share a few of my favorite Firefox tric... more »
- Query string-driven URL schemes considered annoying. (Why you should use path info instead.) (topic: tech, web development, programming) Perhaps I should have labeled this one “Query String-Driven URL Schemes Considered Harmful”, b... more »
- My Frag has Blogmented (topic: tech) Trying to model the semantics of a real system is a daunting if not impossible task. Representing that mod... more »
- Lynx Browser (topic: tech, interesting, browsing, accessibility) I'm writing this text through a regular web browsing form, just like I always do. Except this time I'm not... more »
- Do not taunt happy fun BPF! (topic: life, parenthood) Here's another one, slightly Photoshopped. These outfits were a present from a coworker (an official nerd,... more »
- Becoming a parent: 2nd attempt to explain (topic: life, parenthood) I tried to explain the feelings of new parenthood in a previous post. I still want to write about the expe... more »
- PDA Accessible! (topic: tech, PDAs, accessibility, web design, CSS) drpeterjones.com is now accessible on standards-compliant personal digital assistants! No more waiting unti... more »
- Limerick (topic: funny) There once was a bard from Japan, whose lines (it was said) had great span. When asked if 'twas so he said,... more »
- Best Academic Prank (topic: funny, academia, pranks, peer review) You only have to reload my website a few times to know that I appreciate the humor of using random algorith... more »
- Some Banjo History (topic: music, banjo, history) Today I happened across some interesting reads about the history of the banjo. Evidently the banjo originat... more »
- Becoming a Parent (topic: life) One of the things that has been interesting about having a baby is watching all these latent emotional syst... more »
- Cognitive Singularity (topic: tech, thought, cognition, artificial intelligence, drugs) I spend a lot of time speculating about what makes the mind tick. What is consciousness? Is it possible to ... more »
- New Styles Added (topic: tech, web design, CSS, tinkering) Two new styles have been added to the drpeterjones.com Presentation Engine™ (a CSS file) to rave cus... more »
- Three-Letter Acronym Dearth (topic: general) I was looking for an unused three-letter acronym recently. The reason is classified, suffice to say that du... more »
- Motivation (topic: life, tech, thought, employment, education, society) Society is based on motivation. You could even call it a motivational network. People organize themselves i... more »
- Randomness of PI and other musings (topic: tech, math, science, language) I just stumbled across a Slashdot thread discussing the randomness of PI. It was a pretty typical discussio... more »
- It happened... (topic: life) ...and I'm just a diaper-changin' fool. But seriously, we'll see how often I'm able to update this blog now... more »
- It's going to happen (topic: life) Lord willing, I'm having my first child tomorrow. Well, Amber is having my first child tomorrow. My job is ... more »
- The dancing centipede (topic: thought, banjo, music, learning) Playing the banjo well requires executing a number of different picking patterns at high speed. As I've dev... more »
- A veritable hotbed of fangirl activity (topic: bizarre, funny) Somehow, through no fault of my own, and for reasons unclear to me, a certain page of my website has become... more »
- Making Babies (topic: life, funny) In an effort to achieve the seemingly unachievable task of finding a bass player, I've been busy lately mak... more »
- This Website Design, The Swirling Void (topic: tech, web design, philosophical) The website design you're looking at right now may not necessarily be the website design I'm talking about,... more »
- The Acid2 Test loaded... the Fat Lady sang. (topic: tech, web design, current events, funny) The Acid2 Test is a web page to help browser vendors know whether their browser complies with various web s... more »
- DNS Troubles (topic: tech, life, computers) I just got done fixing my computer. Fixing the computer is a harrowing experience that I have to endure abo... more »
- Banjo Recordings! (topic: banjo, music) I posted a few of my recordings on the site for your listening pleasure. I also made a graphic of a banjo, ... more »
- The Ziggurat: Web Accessibility Assessment (topic: web design, tech) For those of you web standards and accessibility mavens out there, the Ziggurat lets you asses the quality ... more »
- f1rst p0st! You've unwittingly stumbled upon the website of Greg Reimer, web designer extraordinaire, client/server pro... more »