Hadron Collider

Rap @ youtube

Images of Hadron Collider @ Flikr



Google Hosted Email On Media Temple (dv) Server

Set up an account at Google and set up email account(s).

Enter your MX records in the Account Center under your domain. No need to set up DNS in Plesk unless you know what you are doing. Reset DNS to default in Plesk if you don’t know what you are doing in there.

Create the following 7 MX records in the (mt) Account Center:

1 aspmx.l.google.com.
5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
10 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
10 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
10 aspmx4.googlemail.com.
10 aspmx5.googlemail.com.

Priority: 1, should be entered in the data field preceding the address: aspmx.l.google.com.

The leading numbers: 1,5,5,10,10,10, and 10, denote required priority. The trailing “.” must be in place for each record.



A few Good Creative Men

We write ads or people die…

@ youtube



Layer Tennis With Motion This Time

I just came in at volley 2 and it looks like it’s going to be a good match. Trevor Van Meter vs James Hutchinson. I’m glad it’s not an Illustrator/Photoshop-only battle this time.



Looking At Email Closing Lines

At Bobulate:

Closing lines vary from the highly self-conscious (“My warmest regards,”) to the impersonal sig file to the charmless (“Best,”).



Layer Tennis @ Coudal

Marian Bantjes vs Armin Vit

Match today at Coudal Partners with Heather B. Armstrong on the MIC.

20 minutes until it goes live!



TJO: It's called Wings.Strings.Meridians.

A book that collects some drawings, doodles, paintings and sounds… and its published by YETI. It’s 96 color pages and 15 songs long. There is a limited edition of 100 that includes three silk-screened prints.

You can see a few spreads from the book here. Art by Tara Jane O’neil.



Efterklang Mirador

Video called Mirador for ‘Parades’, released today by Efterklang



Latitude And Longitude In Gogle Maps

You can find latitude and longitude at google maps. Once your at the position in question on the map you can, having already bookmarked this (drag to your toolbar), click that link and a pop-up will provide you the lat and long. I know it’s strange, but google hasn’t built in a view for that info for some reason.

If your stumped on what to get for your next tattoo. Not only are you getting a permanent mark on your body, you’re getting, a permanent mark representing a permanent location.

I don’t have any tattoos, I just need to know the lat and long from time to time for other reasons so this is just a suggestion of a way for you to use it.



How I Made My Favicon

I am going to write down the steps I took in creating and employing my new Favicon. That little scribbled icon in the URL field. This is a response to several people who have asked me how to do this in the last week. I Hope this helps them get themselves through the process.

The Graphics

  1. I needed a 16 X 16 pixel graphic. I didn’t bother using Photoshop. It needs a plugin from telegraphics in order to export the file type I need (.ico).
  2. To make things easy I used an online Favicon Editor.

Using the Favicon Editor I was able to create the favicon.ico image file I needed and save it to my Desktop.

The Code / Making It Work

  1. I uploaded my new favicon.ico from my Desktop to my sites Root directory. I used the FTP application in Coda to upload it.
  2. I placed the following line of code between the <head></head> tags in my html document: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://joshuavaage.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
  3. I visited my website and enjoyed seeing that it worked.

My favicon.ico is now properly referenced in my HTML and displays in the browser address bar.