Archive for October 2004
…the more things stay the same
someone in my department had a birthday earlier this week, so we went out to lunch. she had suggested the East-West Cafe in Tacoma.
the last time I went was in the summer of 1996, before I met C. WP took me there for a date, the only time we actually went out anywhere […]
the more things change…
doing a bit of tweaking: added a new home page header (sunflower!) and a link to The Kitchen, plus a new album of pictures from Rochester. I have more, of course, but it’s taking me time to work through them.
bad sleep
Piko and Sasha (then, later, Maddy) kept waking me up, and I had a strange dream which has faded down to a mere outline, but which still disturbs me. (airplane flight, giving birth, betrayal, firey death that was transmuted to puppet-like animation on a tv screen.)
which means now I’m working very hard at just being […]
everything ends
Should it make me as sad as it does that Mark Pilgrim has quit blogging?
I may write more about this later, or I may not. I’m not sure yet.
current projects of interest
# I just got back from the HighEdWebDev 2004 conference, and my (insanely copious) notes are online. Summaries and recommendations coming later this week.
# I’m working on a few things for “The Kitchen” and the Weblogger Wikipedia, Shelley’s two-week blogging clinic and ongoing webloggers’ resource. This could be really interesting for anyone interested in […]
notes for more presentations
intro to web accessibility
* basic principle: make web content and services available to as many people as possible
* various guidelines: WCAG, Section 508. (mention international laws.)
* what to ask/look for re: accessibility in working with a web designer (beyond Bobby)
* how to learn more (Joe Clark is DA MAN!)
intro to weblogs
* what makes a […]
