Dare I step my toe into usenet?
Yes, I do. Perhaps you think me mad.
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Irresistably Charming Photograph
I find this photo utterly charming.
Update: Ava asked me if this photo was related to me somehow. No, it’s not. That photo is of Dori Smith of backupbrain and her son Sean.
We neither have, nor need, any stinking badges.
The San Diego Bloggers page has grown to 35 links. Some I found myself via daypop and google. Some were emailed to me from folks on various lists I’m on – I asked, and they provided! And some folks just found it randomly, and asked to be added.
Today I created a San Diego blogger badge.
Next up – a random blog function—picking it will take you to one of the blogs listed, which one? Only the gods of random numbers will know! I was going to do it in JavaScript, but then I realized that would be too easy. I want to do it in PHP and MySQL!
Yeah, because I don’t already have enough irons in the fire. Ha!
You can’t make this stuff up.
Even with lorem ipsum, you’re not immune to the literal-mindedness of clients. We were showing several designs to a roomful of people from many departments of the client’s organization. The designs all had the classic “greeked text” in them. One of the questions we fielded was: “the final site will be in English, right—not Latin?”
We reassured said person that we did in fact intend to put meaningful words on their website. .
Happy Birthday & Happy Valentine’s Day Jenny!
Quickies
Joel strikes again! with great insights on what clients are looking at when they evaluate our software and web projects. As in lfe,we judge things based on surface aspects that are less important than their underpinnings.
This is a great, funny, geeky cron anecdote. It made me laugh. (Requires some unix knowledge)
I think I’m going to implement one of these weblogs.com implementations, probably one of the perl or php ones.
Screen Rulers! (native for MacOS X!)
FreeRuler looks to be just like the Screen Ruler that I’ve been using for years (on MacOS 7,8,9 and Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000) , but now available from a new author, for OSX. Why do you want a ruler on your screen? I’ll tell you why – so you can see how big a graphic on a webpage is—so you can see how wide a layout is, so you can size graphics to fit in that area appropriately. It’s a super useful thing if you ever ever do anything visual. And even the programmiest of web programmers occasionally needs to do visual stuff. If you’re a designer, you need this, like yesterday. I think I’ve been using the original Screen Ruler since 1996 or 1997. Here’s the author with it in his .sig on usenet in 1995. And in case you hadn’t noticed, that’s over 6 years ago. Eons in web time.
It’s a classic and necessary web development tool.
Sports Term of the Day
Cut-throat Racquetball (aka: Cutthroat Racquetball)—A variation of the game played by three players. The server plays against the other two players, with each player serving in turn.
Racquetball last night was great. Up early now. Stuff to do.
How Does Alwin Manage To Find Stuff That Tickles My Neurons?
Here’s a cool site with an important-to-our-species’-survival message. Keep Antibiotics Working dot com. And from the “nifty!” department—Emacs for Mac OS X
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