Archive for May, 2004
Amtrak and Orbitz in Style
Joining the ranks of travel sites using CSS, we have Orbitz and Amtrak Guest Rewards. Great work on both, with just a few knots and kinks: Orbitz, my own favored travel site, has done an excellent job cleaning up their tabs-and-curves look, simplifying front page elements to just the essentials, but the arrangement of some [...]
Blogger DeIndexing Archives?
If I’m reading the Note at the bottom of this Blogger support page correctly, Blogger no longer plans to support an archive index file. Not good. An archive index is the necessary focal point of a weblog archive, whence stem all links to past archive pages. While including a full archive index on your front [...]
DeCaffing
I’ve cut caffeine from my diet. For most of the past year, my coffee/soda habit has been one each a day, though I’ve been gradually cutting down on the soda out of concern for my teeth. Nowadays I average about three cans of soda a week, and until early this month, an 8 oz. cup [...]
Part
With much huffing and puffing and packing and stacking yesterday, I helped Amy and her folks vacate her Baltimore apartment and stuff the remnants of her college life — and several galleries’ worth of her exquisite painting and drawing work — into two minivans and a U-Haul trailer. By 6pm, I was waving goodbye to [...]
iPhoto Eats My Albums
I don’t know if it was the upgrade, or the unexpected rare OS X kernel panic this morning, or my using the verbose booting hack at lunch, but I just lost all my Safari and Finder preferences on reboot. For some reason, though, Safari is looking great; the font sizes are no longer too small, [...]
Blogger04 Redux
It surprises me that among fellow bloggers of faith, all the reactions to the Relaunched Blogger have been decidedly negative. Well, okay, “all” two reactions I’ve seen: Joel, Josh (cached because he seems to have disappeared). As I said earlier, I think the new Blogger is superb. The pages are well-structured and are finally laid [...]
MT3d
There’s been a lot of hubbub over the new MT3.0 Developers Version, but I am personally not much affected by it, because I, a single user, only run two weblogs on my MT installation. I’m in no hurry to upgrade; “if ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” right? Up till last week I had thought of [...]
B-Shirt, B-Omit
Note that I would still wear this T-shirt and enjoy it. Now get outta my way, “I think I’m gonna blog!”
unBlog
This is going to be a bit of a ramble. Nowadays I’m trying not to use the word “blog” — especially as a verb — too gratuitously in my speech and writing. I avoid it now, much the same way we avoid the phrase “information superhighway,” or refrain from putting a hyphen between “tele” and [...]
MetaDelay
As Sparticus rightly points out here: yes, it took me a while to get down to the catblogging, an unexcusable delay. You see, I wanted to write about the plants first, but I was constantly distracted writing about other things, so I could never seem to get down to either the flora or fauna which [...]