http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/ Beaming sweetness from our world to yours... en-us 2008-07-10T00:22:28-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/07/big_numbers.html Big numbers are really hard to visualize. Charles and Ray Eames showed us how quickly they scale beyond human scope with their powers of 10 video Now Chris Jordan uses art pieces made up of thousands of photographs to... Art Barry 2008-07-10T00:22:28-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/06/lillys_birthday_weekend.html Lilly's 13th birthday celebration was a long, drawn out, affair. The night before her Birthday (Friday) she returned from a 2 day school hiking trip so we had a relatively quiet evening with just Maike spending the night. We ate... Travel Barry 2008-06-25T20:19:18-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/06/getting_rails_and_prototype_to.html Another Ajax programming with Prototype tip. This one is aimed at Rails developers. I wanted to use Ajax.Request to communicate with my Rails application via XML. Turns out this was fairly straightforward apart from one major gotcha! Receiving XML with... Programming Barry 2008-06-12T11:30:37-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/06/trip_to_arcachon_and_dune_de_p.html We climbed the dune, swam on the beach and had dinner on the Arcachon sea front. A sunny and blustery day with incredible clouds and light. Leia and Floor hit the top of the Dune! Big crowd up to the... Travel Barry 2008-06-04T19:54:15-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/05/javascript_tip_using_settimeou.html This is a little esoteric but I thought I should share it as it took me a while to find a solution. I use prototype as my framework of preference for building web applications. Recently I've been refactoring code I... Programming Barry 2008-05-29T14:08:25-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/05/amsterdam.html Travel Barry 2008-05-20T20:24:41-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2007/08/ireland.html We had a great time in Ireland. We ate and drank far too much while catching up with family and friends. We also managed to hook up Mark and Jules and spend a weekend in Feathard where my mum has... Travel Barry 2007-08-24T13:20:48-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2007/06/lilly_is_12.html Some photos of Lilly's 12 birthday party... Lilly's 12th Birthday... Barry 2007-06-19T04:07:43-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2007/04/scrapblog.html Scrapblog is really fun, it just went live on April 1st (no joke!). You can use it to build online scrapbooks with your photos (and video and music). They have lots of really nicely designed frames, stickers and backgrounds. Everything... Art Barry 2007-04-04T20:53:50-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2007/03/video_chinese_new_year.html Art Barry 2007-03-15T19:15:23-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2007/02/not_your_grandmas_quilt.html Last.fm has just introduced a new feature called Music Quilts. The name is a little twee but the design and functinality are great. Here's one from the recent Albums I have been listening to. div.lastfm_quilt_black a,div.lastfm_quilt_black div { height: 20px;... Art Barry 2007-02-15T20:55:09-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2006/12/bossa_preview_release.html Okay, it's been a bit quiet around here lately. One of the reasons is because I have been working hard on Bossa. Yesterday we finally got our website live and the preview release is available for download. If you use... Programming Barry 2006-12-06T20:28:37-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2005/05/transitions.html Art Barry 2005-05-18T01:00:45-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2004/06/memorial_day_weekend_roosevelt.html Travel Barry 2004-06-03T02:27:21-08:00 http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2004/05/tygh_valley_pictographs.html This weekend we went back out to Tygh Valley to see some little known pictographs. There is no path so it took a little bushwhacking to find them. Even without the pictographs it would have been a beautiful hike... Art Barry 2004-05-17T17:56:28-08:00