by Toby | Mar 17, 2012 | tech related
I have an older scanner, that is actually a very good device. Unfortunately there are no Windows Vista drivers for this device, so I have been using it on my old Windows XP laptop – which has now become our bedroom Netflix player. So I set about trying to...
by Toby | Jan 26, 2012 | development
This was a little JS snippet that was passed to me by a co-worker at Mannix Marketing, Inc. that allows you to build the UI into a scrolling page. Get the code… The original code is found here, where you can see a demo of the code. I have saved the code at...
by Toby | Jan 21, 2012 | development
Well, since sohtanaka.com has been down for a while, I have lost access to some great resources. No fear, I have managed to get most of them back from archive.org – but what a pain that is; slow, slow, slow… Anyway, with credit where credit is due...
by Toby | Sep 23, 2011 | family
There are two sides, one out in the field the other one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the...
by Toby | Sep 21, 2011 | miscellaneous, random interests, Toby
I haven’t posted much in the last few months – been much busy at work, and also in our new church plant, Vantage Pointe, where I am the Director of Communications & New Media. I was also doing some Stumblin’ (www.stumbleupon.com) which is a much...
by Toby | Jul 12, 2011 | Sourced From, Sport
Buzzkill: Fan may owe taxes on rewards for Jeter’s 3,000th – Big League Stew – MLB Blog – Yahoo! Sports. How is this income? This is not something that he can take down to the grocery store to put food on his family’s table, and he sure as...
by Toby | May 18, 2011 | miscellaneous
Manner #1 When asking someone for something, say “Please.” Manner #2 When receiving something, tell them “Thank you.” Manner #3 Unless there is an emergency do not interrupt grown-ups who are speaking with each other. They will notice you and...
by Toby | Apr 8, 2011 | development, tech related
This morning, while the girls were napping, I took advantage of this time to take a first sincere look at HTML5 and attempted to recreate the theme of this website using HTML5 tags like <header />, <section /> and <footer />. You can see the result...
by Toby | Mar 13, 2011 | Charlotte, family, hepatoblastoma, JoAnn, TEAM Charlotte, Toby
This morning, Charlotte’s Story aired on channel CW15 Albany on the Parentology with Paula show. We had been interviewed by show reporter Aliz Koletas toward the end of February, in what was a great sit down interview style recording. We covered all that we...
by Toby | Feb 22, 2011 | development, picture laughs and gasps, programming, tech related, Toby
DISCLAIMER: FrontPage Server Extensions is not my choice in this project. The end-user has Microsoft Expression Web, so this is how the site is being done. So I’m setting up FrontPage Server Extensions on the web server and I get the following error: So I click...
