Archive for November, 2005

The gruesome fate of Spider-Man

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Amazon introduces cool new “Product Preview” links

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Just got an email from the Amazon Associates program about their new Product Preview links (hover over that link to see what they are).

Pretty slick, don’t you think? Good use of AJAX, if you ask me. I bet they really help increase associates’ conversion rates.

Update: Oops, I forgot - they’re doing some sort […]

My birthday doll

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Apparently my friend Rob doesn’t think I’m too old yet for dolls, because that’s what he gave my for my birthday! Actually, it was a doll-making kit. I think I did rather well with it, if I may say so myself!

Five new images at leogrucza.com

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

I just added my dad’s latest batch of digital images to his website. Check ‘em out.

Fun facts about the new artwork: the background at the top of Illumination is actually a Ruble I brought back with me from Russia. And the pile of apples in Apples came from my sister’s Red Delicious apple […]

First Monday at NEC

Monday, November 7th, 2005

This is shaping up to be my season for attending concerts.

Tonight I caught the second half of NEC’s First Monday concert (they were playing Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, which I’ve played twice now). It’s so nice to be able to hop in the car, zip down Soldier’s Field Road/Storrow Drive and then on to […]

IE appendChild problem solved

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Today my boss ran into a problem using the internal CMS I’ve written for work. After seeing him demonstrate the problem, I figured it was probably an IE issue. Of course, my boss and manager laughed, since my answer to many bugs they find is that it’s an IE issue.

Turned out it was, […]