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I’m chewing on one of the great “religious” debates of web design: fixed or elastic? for a new site design. The layout was done on a grid, and I think that helps the look. OTOH, I would love the accomplishment of a true elastic design.(tags: css)
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fun with shiny!(tags: design inspiration)
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(tags: intranet)
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“Out of 31 students, I am the only woman, and […] I have already taken this course so I am not really a part of this graduating class! The first time I took the class, I distinctly remember at least 5 chicas out of 30(ish) students.” sigh.
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“The FFIEC didn’t spell out what security improvements were needed, letting the banks decide for themselves. And so a thousand idiotic queries blossomed.” — no comment. 😛(tags: creditunion security)
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I still need to get a regular headset.(tags: mda)
links for 2008-01-31
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nice & simple, with 2 different htc hacks
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“It doesn’t qualify as an error so I’m not going to add it to the errata but I sure wish I had known about this when I was writing the book.” — an update of sorts for my very favorite JS book.(tags: javascripty browsers)
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from Sitepoint. wow! also, dig the reference icons, lego-style. (could one of them plz be a grrl? kthxbye.)
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“credit unions need to look at their membership and potential membership, find out what they are looking for, and create products for them” (still haven’t seen the video, damn filtering.) this guy is absurdly articulate!(tags: creditunion)
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Lots of references to Terminator, Star Trek, and I, Robot in the comments, as one might imagine.
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2 ideas I want to try.(tags: email-newsletter)
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in the interests of completeness, I should probably try this in my cms research. (IIRC, Andrea is doing amazing things with EE @ HSU.)(tags: cms_research)
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in the comments: “the money you’d save by being a CU member might just PAY for an iPod” — somewhere in this there’s an honest-to-$DEITY advertising campaign.(tags: creditunion)
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tips for making breakfast bars (ala nutrigrain bars) – I’m always looking for better breakfasts.
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awesomely weird. Scott Adams invited his blog readers to make up a nonsense song. Some german band actually set it to music. And then this random woman turned it into a music video. It’s freakishly catchy, too!
links for 2008-01-30
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via Ron Shevlin — the description is misleading, tho. Think of it like a *private* Twitter.(tags: wordpress)
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more ideas — as if I needed them! — for what to do with a “Money Day”
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“The debate isn’t security versus privacy. It’s liberty versus control.”
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beautiful!
links for 2008-01-29
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“the 5W paperback-sized PC” – via C. it’s quite adorable, tho the RAM included is pretty meager.
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“Yes, I’ve come to a legitimate art museum to see a Photoshopped portrait of a television political satirist that’s hanging next to the restrooms. Not only that, but there’s a line of other people who are here for the same reason.”
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comment #2 hits the nail precisely on the head. also, Shelley’s extensive quoting of WaSP (etc) from 2000 captures, I think, why this is such an emotional topic. (so emotional that I needed an hour of IM time to keep from FREAKING OUT, as in, way beyond w
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I want to be a writer again.
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“It’s kind of hard to fly under the radar when you are applauded for innovation in Library Journal.” — I find the whole idea troubling; the same way it irks me that I can’t use TRL’s online audiobook setup on the pod.
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“Noblesse oblige. Since we know more and can do more and better things with web sites, more is expected of us.” oy. thanks a lot. ::rolls eyes::
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“Each new version of Windows introduces new APIs while attempting to maintain compatibility with old APIs, even to the point of mimicking buggy behavior.” – connects the IE8 thing to OS issues.
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Mark Pilgrim’s links. I find his tag name amusing.(tags: x-ua-bs)
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“What if this JS widget is designed for IE 7 and my page is designed for IE 6?” — oh, I hadn’t thought about that at all. Theoretically, that could be ugly. (also, check out the EOL dates in the comments! OMG!)
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“it’s time they started earning their money instead of letting Dreamweaver do their jobs” – never mind the rest of the article (not much new here), I just love that line.
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“It’s furry, and purrs quietly when you pet it.” 🙂
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I will almost certainly need this later.(tags: mac)
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stylin’! I’d like to see more home design that honestly incorporates the needs of pets.(tags: home)
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trippy. reminds me of adolescent dinners out with friends, in a very obscure way.
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“I’d hold a press conference and say that ONLY an atheist should be president, in the same way you want a eunuch to guard your harem.” – as usual, very very weird, and yet, quite funny, and also: shockingly true.
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from Dylan. this sounds freakin’ tasty. when I make chili, I start with a Jamie Oliver (yeah, I know) recipe. there are definitely some things to try here, especially with the spicing, which has given me trouble.
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hm.
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scary story at the bottom of the comments, which are also quite rich in other ideas.(tags: business)
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Huckabee wigs me out.
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“I think we could make Iraq a very peaceful country just by dumping a few plane-loads of cash all over it.” — I’ve actually been known to make this argument occasionally in serious conversation.
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sounds startlingly tasty.
PSA
Apparently this site will be down on Friday night/Saturday morning while Dreamhost moves some servers around. Of course, if you’re reading this site on a Friday night, then I don’t know what to say….
x-ua-bs
That’s what I’m calling my del.icio.us tag for the Microsoft meta-tag proposal. (Have no idea what the hell I’m talking about? Well, you probably just want to move right along to some poetry or something, but the links should be informative if you are curious.)
I’ve considered commenting on a number of posts on the topic, including some that aren’t linked from my del.icio.us. (You can generally find those posts by reading the things I did link.) Most notably, I thought about being one of the 9,872 (not really) comments on the Z’s posts.
But I can’t get my thoughts into anything that resembles a coherent statement. There’s WAYÂ too much emotion going on here.
Here meaning both out in the discussions, and here in my head. I had an hour-long IM with Dylan not too long ago, because I was freaking out with unnerving intensity. As in, comments on the Z’s posts bringing me almost to tears. And I could not explain why. (Other than lack of sleep because of a furnace going out a couple of nights earlier in freezing weather. That always makes my emotions extra-emotional.)
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I’ve come back to try to start this paragraph between other things for a few hours now, and I can’t. So, garbled thoughts in no particular order:
- Is IE8 really going to be SO very different from IE7? It seems like IE6 -> IE7 was the really painful break.
- Why should I be forced to do EVEN MORE work because of IE?
- “To hell with bad browsers” seriously, honestly, changed my life. I don’t care about the rationales, this feels like a step back, and in some cases, a betrayal.
- Too many of the articles deal with CSS issues. Let’s not forget JavaScript & the DOM.
- Intranets are teh scuk.
I am just going to keep doing my thing, making sites that are as standards-compliant as I can manage, isolating CSS hacks into conditional comments, feature-detecting in JavaScript. I’m going to try to back off on the intensity of my emotions about the whole thing, and just do what I love, and what I’m good at.
That’s all I have to say about that, at least right now, or on this blog.
sunday scribblings: miscellaneous
a box of what’s left over
after sorting
a stack of post-its
curling and yellow
(not with age, just as they are)
and the cryptic scrawls
phone message
half-formed grocery list
idea for code or poem
plants haphazard
unlabeled, unknown
jumbled in the bed
at the far end of the garden
to wait under leaf
rain, an occasional snow
until spring brings
inspiration and energy
after the model is assembled
three Legos at the bottom
of the plastic bag
not enough to use
for anything
toss them in the tub
a box of what’s left over
after the files are tidy
and the drawers are clean
which is to say
a dozen projects
tiny to infinite
belonging to nothing else
a form, a catalog
a phone number
markers of larger things
I wanted to do
and did not make time for
or that I should have done
but did not want to
or was afraid I could not finish.
links for 2008-01-28
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video & other people’s notes from the thing I went to week before last(tags: drupal)
links for 2008-01-26
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housing in that area must be horrifically expensive. I tried to use my current public transit travel time (40 minutes) and the current value of my house (wild-ass-guess/currency conversion 70K pounds) — it’s not physically possible. had to go to 90 mins
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Yes yes yes yes. Don’t tell anybody, but I’m working on a redesign. 🙂(tags: web_dev)
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“His mission was to photograph each of the nation’s 50 state capitol buildings and dispatch a postcard from each city, using postage stamps from a childhood collection.” – a beautiful idea, almost ruined by “the war on the unexpected” (bruce schnier’s p
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a good reminder.(tags: css)
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interesting idea to buy gift cards from the place where doing testing to give to subjects.(tags: usability)
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as usual, Jessamyn has good stuff to say about the junction of technology and libraries. (sometimes I think I want to be Jessamyn when I grow up.)
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damn good questions.(tags: marketing email-newsletter)
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I think some of the techniques here are things I’ve worked on with my therapist.(tags: depression reference)
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“There’s only one space left in the market where IE can still claim that bloated 95%+ market share: corporate intranets.” — Some excellent business analysis. (I’m reading the rest of my IE8 meta-switch backlog.)
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Too many comments here to pick one, or to quote from any of JZ’s text. Frankly, I find the whole thing incredibly dispiriting; deeply disheartening. Like something’s gone horribly awry. Maybe Dylan’s civil war comment (twitter? can’t remember) is exactly
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“The real question here is: Why do you have so many stuffed Lemurs??” – okay, that was what I needed. I get way too emo about this stuff.
links for 2008-01-25
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ooooh. I ::heart:: magnetic whiteboards. (I have 2 at work.)
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“So Bush’s inspiring, prosyletizing Methodist is in fact a silver-tongued horse thief fleeing from a lynch mob.” – heh.
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hm. I fear that this may be far too true in our house.
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for in a doorway