I was having a bit of trouble getting the new ColdFusion 8 cfmenus to “fly over” a flash cfform. As it turns out it was an issue with the flash “Z Index” of the page. To fix the issue all I had to do was add wMode=”opaque” to the flash form. This was [...]

A buddy of mine has been on a quest for the best web based recipe/cookbook. He finally decided on PHPRecipeBook, so I decided to take a look at it. I am in the process of adding many features to daveline.com, and I thought family recipes would be a great addition.
I liked many features of PHPRecipeBook [...]

My sister recently purchases a new Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop with Windows Vista Basic. Like the good brother I am, I thought I would save her a few hundred bucks by installing OpenOffice.org instead of MS Office. This was actually my first experience with Windows Vista, so I didn’t know what to expect.
Windows Vista [...]

Do you think the bottom will fall out of the US housing market? I know I couldn’t afford a new house at the current prices. A few years ago my mom had to sell her home at a loss.
I found this on today on speculativebubble.com and I thought it was interesting in light of the [...]

In my spare time I spend a bit of time playing, composing music, & recording. I have found a few Linux application that I have find useful in these tasks.

GNU Solfege (A Free Ear Training Program)
Audacity (Audio Editor and Recorder)
LilyPond (Music Notation & Printing Software)
Hydrogen (advanced drum machine)
GTick (metronome application)

This is officially my new blog!! I have had many blogs in the past which never really blossomed. Previous Blogs have withered and died over time as I have continually changed hosting providers and my preferred language/platform. I have finally come to the conclusion that something is better than nothing, so I am [...]

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