Very impressive snowflake
Posted by Sam
Perhaps the most visible part of my job is keeping dozens of web sites up and running. Some of them are very high profile sites and some of them are very obscure. One of the most surprising sites is a site that my company (Barkley) did several years ago. It's called Make-a-Flake. Year after year it continues to get millions of hits with no marketing of any kind.
The basic idea behind the site is that it tries to replicate the paper snowflakes we all made as kids in grade school. If you've used the site you know how difficult it can be to make a very coo flake and even more difficult if you are trying to recreate a particular design or image. And that brings us to a flake I came across today. The flake is below and if you've ever watched South Park you know exactly what the creator of the flake was making. I count no less than five distinct images carved into this snowflake and the main image is that of Kyle from South Park. Go try and make a snowflake and you will really being to appreciate how difficult this snowflake truly is. Have other great snowflakes? Leave them in the comments.
Tags: web
Microsoft's answer to the iPhone
Posted by Sam
Below is a video of Microsoft's answer to the iPhone. It's called the zunePhone. Microsoft hasn't had great success copying Apple but maybe this one will be different. Yeah, probably not.
Tags: humor
Pictures from Vienna and Paris
Posted by Sam
I finally got pictures up from our trip to Vienna and Paris. You can find pictures the Paris pictures here and the Vienna pictures are here or you can just click through to the pictures section.
Back from Vienna
Posted by Sam
I made it safely back from Vienna. Both Paris and Vienna were beautiful! Katie and I had a great time. I will put pictures as soon as I get a chance. The worst part of the trip was coming home without Katie but she will be back soon!
Tags: travel
Heading to Vienna and Paris
Posted by Sam
Well it seemed like it would never get here but this morning I'm finally leaving for Vienna. I'll be in Vienna for about a day and then Katie and I are flying to Paris for her birthday.
Tags: travel