Cultural Cataracts
Posted on Nov 12, 2007 | Last Updated Nov 12, 2011
A personal conversation about the challenges facing educational and cultural progress in the face of overwhelming ignorance and myopia.
parenting, education, society, culture
Who is she
Posted on Oct 19, 2002 | Last Updated Oct 30, 2011
A poem about a father who abandoned his daughter almost 30 years ago.
poem, poetry, absentee parent, absentee father, deadbeat father
Make JavaScript Math.random() useful
Posted on Aug 3, 2004 | Last Updated Sep 30, 2013
How to use the JavaScript Math.random function useful with round, ceiling, and floor.
javscript, math.random, math.round, math.ceil, math.floor
URL Fragment not Accessible to PHP
Posted on Dec 11, 2006 | Last Updated Nov 11, 2011
The fragment part of a URL or web address is not sent to servers to be accessible by scripting languages such as PHP.
url fragment, pound, hash, php
Dealing with Readblock Character Limit in MAXScript
Posted on May 29, 2014 | Last Updated May 29, 2014
MAXScript function to circumvent the limitations in MemStream.ReadBlock() that has a character limit of 5120 characters.
maxscript, MemStream.ReadBlock(), readblock, unknown system exception
Education in the Digital Age
Posted on Jan 27, 2017 | Last Updated Feb 16, 2017
Essay on education in the modern digital age.
education, society
January, 2011 Newsletter
Posted on Jan 9, 2011 | Last Updated Jul 27, 2013
Newsletter from Shawn Olson on January 10, 2011.
newsletter
Using an Object Id with JavaScript
Posted on Aug 24, 2004 | Last Updated Nov 7, 2011
Referencing objects in JavaScript using the ID attribute.
javascript object reference, ids, id, document.getElementById(), change image size
Image Resampling Tutorial
Posted on Oct 19, 2002 | Last Updated Oct 26, 2011
A tutorial on how to resample images for smaller file sizes.
resample bitmaps, compress bitmaps, compress photos, compress images, reduc
