March 2025 Twenty-nine posts

• 08-Mar-2025

  
  Ramble literary memory before the beach Surprises from inside my own brain. Yesterday we went to a used kitchen equipment store. Here’s a heartbreaking piece of crockery. 29 July 1981. Charles and Diana. It reminds me of the video for Elvis Costello & the Attractions’s Everyday I Write The Book (1983) The way you walk (the way you talk) the way...

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• 07-Mar-2025

  
  Blog Carnival Roundup I enjoyed hosting February’s IndieWeb Carnival. Thank you to everyone who shared based on the prompt. “Affirmations” invited participants to engage with their inner voices, inner lives, and meaning. And the folks who submitted their posts did so. There were 30 submissions and whether folks left a comment, sent an email, replied in the fediverse or IndieWeb...

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• 07-Mar-2025
  Song of the day Song of the day, from Jarvis Cocker. Running the world The world has no content warning so I’m not including one here.

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• 07-Mar-2025
  Introducing myself in the CSS Battle Community Hi folks – I’m Joe Crawford. ArtLung. Level of experience HTML/CSS: High level. I’ve been making web pages for 30 years now and remember the bad days before CSS existed. I remember a co-worker using CSS to make a drop shadow in Internet Explorer. He had to make a second element with the text, but...

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• 06-Mar-2025

  
  Bird Mark 7 Ventilator / IPPB Machine I love to draw ventilators It was a delight to see a Bird Mark 7 on tonight’s episode of Severance: S02E08: Sweet Vitriol. It’s been a long time since I practiced as a respiratory therapist professionally, but I shouted out “BIRD MARK 7” when we saw it show up in that dingy little room. That...

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• 06-Mar-2025

  
  In Mid-Air A persistent need in web development is to solve the problem of a footer that’s not at a the foot. A main content area that’s not tall doesn’t push the footer down to the bottom. Here’s one solution, inspired by a request in #IndieWeb chat this morning. It’s on the lab. Man, I love making...

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• 05-Mar-2025

  
  Between the rains Good day today. Our houseguest left yesterday which ended in bittersweetness. But today I had a good time at the IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club. And I called in from the beach too. Good times. But conditions were iffy. Still got a few good rides. The panorama from today The carabiner which prevents my wetsuit from...

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• 02-Mar-2025

  
  Before I went in at the Cove today the critters were sizing me up. “Who the hell do you think you are?” And like I always have since I was 3 years old I said “I’m Joe.”

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• 01-Mar-2025

  
  Morning fun.

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