http://www.kazrog.com Shane McFee, vocalist and guitarist of BACKMASK, metal geek. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:18:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have incorporated recently and a lot of changes are on the way. Stay tuned... http://www.kazrog.com/2008/06/28/kazrog-productions-is-now-kazrog-llc/ In honor of today's massive eBay boycott, here's a list of the Top 5 eBay Alternatives: GearGoblin - My personal favorite, very clean Web 2.0 layout, with some very cool features such as a fee calculator. Specializing in music instruments, music equipment, and computers. Bidtopia - A new site with a pretty ... http://www.kazrog.com/2008/02/19/top-5-ebay-alternatives/ Led Zeppelin is my favorite band of all time. I can listen to their albums over and over without getting sick of them, always gaining some new insight in the process. After stumbling on a clip of Jimmy Page's prototype version of "Dazed and Confused" with his previous band, The Yardbirds, ... http://www.kazrog.com/2007/11/03/the-importance-of-finding-the-right-band-members/ I read an interesting article today on font rendering and anti-aliasing on Mac vs. Windows systems. I actually like both approaches, being a Mac user who originally fled to Windows 95 after the demise of the Amiga (a platform with some of the best typography of all time - far superior ... http://www.kazrog.com/2007/06/13/musings-on-font-rendering/ I've been thinking a lot lately about buzzword web technologies such as AJAX and Ruby on Rails. These technologies, while exciting in comparison to the web of the recent past, are destined to become obsolete within the next 1-2 years. It's not the fault of the creators of these innovative ... http://www.kazrog.com/2006/05/31/a-web-without-browsers/ Introduction After about a year of Spotlight in Mac OS X, I've found that its newness has worn off. Sure, it's still forward-looking even in relation to where the ill-fated Windows Vista is headed, but in many ways it feels like a downgrade to me from the simple inline search in ... http://www.kazrog.com/2006/05/18/spotlights-dark-side/ After 6 years of continued refinement, Mac OS X is no longer new to most of us. In 2000, I remember my excitement over the Public Beta release, even when there were hardly any applications written for the new OS. I knew that this was going to be the OS ... http://www.kazrog.com/2006/04/03/suggestions-for-apple-in-q2-2006/ Here are my predictions for the Apple 2006 Intel-based hardware lineup. All PowerPC Macs will be phased out, namely the PowerBook, Power Mac, and iBook. The following models are what we'll see: Mac Pro - This will be the new tower enclosure, will be the most radically fast Macs ever made, ... http://www.kazrog.com/2006/03/24/predictions-for-apple-in-2006/ There are quite a few AJAX demos and examples on the web right now. While these are invaluable to learning AJAX, some people need a bit more information than just a raw piece of code. The following is a list of the best and most helpful AJAX tutorials that I've ... http://www.kazrog.com/2006/03/15/round-up-of-30-ajax-tutorials/ This is awesome. In spite of the fact that I've got both client and server-side spam blocking, I still manage to get about 30+ spam emails a day coming through my inbox. Most of them are lame and generic, but occasionally I get a gem such as this (which includes, ... http://www.kazrog.com/2006/03/11/i-love-spam/