http://www.kyleis.com A Blog about Life and Tech Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:13:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was working on this problem, and thought that maybe someone else might be too. I was working with a UISearchBar (which has a UITextField in it basically) and I was making a remote request from an NSXMLParser. The NSXMLParser would do its business before letting the keyboard "slide down." ... http://www.kyleis.com/2009/07/23/after-the-keyboard-resigns-in-uitextfields/ A great song off of the National's latest album, Boxer that always enchants me with its slow rhythm and acoustic guitar picking. Definitely worth listening to. I really have fallen in love with the National lately. http://www.kyleis.com/2009/05/20/listen-to-start-a-war/ So there I was, watching "Ghost Ship" – a cheesy and somewhat scary movie made a few years back, and I decided that I wanted to make a picture of my face that described my life. So, I took a picture of myself, and illustrated what my life is right ... http://www.kyleis.com/2009/05/20/life-is-art/ Lately Microsoft has been pushing their "Laptop Hunter" commercials a lot. If you haven't seen them, the concept behind them is to give someone a certain amount of money to find a laptop, and if they find it, they can keep it. Now, I'm not against companies giving away free ... http://www.kyleis.com/2009/05/18/im-a-kyle/ I've been working on a new design for this site for the past few days, and it's coming along nicely. I am really trying to integrate my image with my business cards, Twitter, and website. That way when someone looks at my business card, they associate the look and feel ... http://www.kyleis.com/2009/05/13/new-website-design/ You know that you've seen a good advertisement, how? In my opinion, an effective ad is one that you click on (or at least want to). Of course you see millions of ads in your life, but how many do you actually respond to? I recently downloaded Tweetie for Mac, which is ... http://www.kyleis.com/2009/05/12/advertisements/ Well, I finally made some business cards! I figured it was about time, and I think they turned out very nicely! I decided to use a kind of grungy background and add a little bit of distress to it by making it appear like crinkled paper, but although I am using a somewhat ... http://www.kyleis.com/2009/05/11/business-cards/ Here I sit, in my chair waiting for the world to change.   What a terrible way to perceive the world – to sit back and wait for action that you know will never happen. The structure of the world holds on to the perceptions of those whom try and change the ... http://www.kyleis.com/2009/05/08/sitting-there/ As I round this turn of life, I realize that I have come to a crossroads in life perhaps. I am actually starting to become an adult. I never thought that I would become an adult. It seemed like it was taking forever to get through being a kid, but ... http://www.kyleis.com/2009/05/07/the-beginning-is-the-end-is-the-beginning/ Isn't it amazing how the weather can change so abruptly and dynamically? One day you are sitting on the bench outside enjoying the weather, the next day you are bundled up from head to toe and your nose is all red from blowing it a bazillion times. What causes this change ... http://www.kyleis.com/2009/05/06/weather/