Archive for May, 2004
Make Opera Look Like a Browser Again
Update, 2006: Opera 9.x is now free, and much more browser-like. Pretty much all of the stuff here can now be disregarded, except for the stuff about the status bar. Update, Oct 2004: Opera Looks Like a Browser Again! As of Opera 7.60, only steps 3, 5, 6, and 7 from this page are necessary. [...]
Lover’s Commencement
I took Friday and Monday off from work and spent most of the long weekend in Baltimore with Amy and her family as she marched with MICA’s graduating class of 2004. That’s why I was gone for so long. Tired now. And sleepy. Good night.
Look, Up in the Sky!
I trotted down to the Capitol Reflecting Pool at 9:30pm last night to catch the space station flyby. Unfortunately, a mischievous cumulus cloud happened to obscure Jupiter at the moment of closest contact, but the station came zooming out from behind the cloud, a brilliant point of light crossing from southwest to northeast in the [...]
Beepy-Beepy
Whew. The old folly has been rectified, and the photolog is now officially back to the state I left it in as of March 2003 (when I got lazy, then forgot to dump the DB info with its stupid naming convention while reinstalling MT). Over the last few weeks, I’ve been painstakingly rebuilding the log [...]
Pandora’s Pillow
Pandora, paws perched on her pillow. Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.
Of Lollards and Hussites
“Hussites” were the followers of Jan Hus, who was influenced by John Wyclif, whose followers were the Lollards.
Blogger’04 metaRoundup
pauSpotting: my own old blogspot page, now revived. Some insider info: AdaptivePath, StopDesign, Evhead, Shellen, Biz, Simplebits, Veen, Zeldman, WhatDoIKnow. Feedback trickles in: Metafilter, Haughey, PhilRingnalda, LYD, Burningbird, Volokh, and the Google News Cloud.
Blogger’04
The new Blogger.com is out, and it looks great, both visually and functionally. It’ll take a while to get used to not seeing the old black layout, but on the plus side, the new dashboard is clean and simple, and the public profiling brings the community/social network aspect of the system into sharp focus. The [...]
Happy Trails
This was an outdoorsy weekend. On Saturday, Amy and I headed up to Rock Creek Park to do a 2.5 mile hiking loop. Starting from the Van Ness Metro, we got on the Soapstone Valley Trail (the start of which turned out to be fairly well hidden a couple of blocks down Albemarle Street from [...]
, , N-G-O!
Mind your <b>‘s and <i>‘s. In a “semantic” frenzy, I once made the mistake of converting all my b and i tags to strong and em, even for non-emphasized words which should rather have been enclosed in dfn, cite, address, var, code, samp, kbd, or blockquote. That’s what the “semantic” is all about. Sure, it’s [...]