April 17, 2015

Cards Against Humanity?

Do you play Cards Against Humanity? No? – you should! Best described as your strange uncles version of Apples to Apples, it is a must for tabletop gamers (as a bonus it’s open source). A great way to get to know your friends and family and[...]
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December 10, 2014

Next Level Christmas Lights

For anyone that love Christmas lights, this takes choreographed lights to the next level. [...]
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August 20, 2014

26 Amusing Facts About Amusement Parks (Mental Floss)

A couple mistakes, can you spot them? [...]
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December 3, 2009

CSS Reference

Many, many moons ago, when CSS was a brand new toy for us developers to play with, I created a quick reference guide for my own use. It made its way into the wild, and many of my colleagues still thank me for creating it. It is long past time that I updated[...]
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December 2, 2009

Development Anti-Patterns

Around 2006 a post appeared on a website that led to a discussion of development methodologies. The discussion quickly deteriorated into methodologies that should not be used, but were unfortunately all to common. This got our internal team discussing,[...]
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December 1, 2009

Encoding Reference

I was recently doing some consulting for another IT company when the encoding of characters for HTML came up. Which is when I remembered a great reference document I created years ago, of which I would forward a copy. Which led to “why don’t I post[...]
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July 29, 2009

Iconic Cincinnati Restaurants

After posting about the great Cincinnati area restaurants you were missing I received several inquiries from my friends out of town on which restaurants they should try when in town.  There are so many to try, so this list is limited to those places[...]
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July 3, 2009

Today in Amusement History

Many moons ago, there was The Amusement Park Almanac, compiled by Dave Althoff and published periodically on Usenet.  Anyone out there remember, or even know what Usenet is, let alone use it? For the last few years it has laid fallow with no updates[...]
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June 16, 2009

Overlooked Cincinnati Restaurants

There are a lot of great restaurants in the Greater Cincinnati area – a fact we should be thankful for.  Many great places most of you already know, including chains like Dewey’s and local places like Montgomery Inn.  Below are a few local (non-chain)[...]
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May 13, 2009

The Amusement Industry is all aTwitter

Twitter? What is this Twitter I keep hearing about? Twitter itself describes itself thus: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question:[...]
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