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I’m starting to think that Simpsons episodes are becoming portents for near-future events. The night of Charles Bronson’s death, I was watching the Simpsons mistakenly visit Bronson, Missouri. Then, the day before Indepundit’s true identity was revealed, I saw the L.T. Smash episode.
On the other hand, they showed the Angel Fossil episode last week, and there was no end-of-the-world or major mall opening.
Avid FreeDV, limited — but still quite useful — release of the industry standard editing software. Not much use to me at this time, since I don’t even have a DV cam, but I’ll keep an eye on this for when I do get one.
The Sci-Fi/Fantasy Character Test tells me that I am Spock. Illogical. I am not Spock.
The Web is Ruined and I Ruined It (1997), in which early-era web guru David Siegel repents of such non-semantic design tactics as <table> hacks and spacer gifs — presentational hacks interspersed with web content; a web purist’s sin as unto the wearing of mixed garments. He does not mention Creating Killer Web Sites by name, but I think that, at least in part, is what he refers to.
Link found via Dave Shea’s (of mezzo fame) In Defense of Fahrner Image Replacement, that not-so-arcane method of displaying images by setting them as the background of a sized CSS block element.
(Yes, it’s all old stuff. I wasn’t doing web design in 1997 yet, so the whole issue wasn’t even on my radar at the time. I didn’t even have radar.)
A happy welcome to Ganns’ and Cathy’s new son, Nathan! (Images, since his hotlinked images are not working: 1, 2, 3, 4.)
mobileMT: WAP interface to MovableType. I recently switched over to a Sony Ericsson T300 with WAP browser for T-Zones, so mobileMT may prove a suitable replacement for the long-defunct Bloggerbot. (Link via MKelley’s sideblog.)
OS X 10.2.8, take two. Two weeks after pulling a bad upgrade, Apple has released a properly working (?) package. I’m still not downloading it, partly out of wariness, and partly because I’m on dialup all weekend. For now, I’ll watch Slashdot and MacSlash for feedback. Let the “early-adopter” test subjects go first. ;-)
In other news, Verisign’s Sitefinder is going down, and pure evil is defeated — for now.
So, there’s this girl I met while I was at MICA: art student, painter, smart, pretty, plays the flute, listens to Beethoven and U2, reads the classics, likes museums and plants and insects and CS Lewis. I first noticed her at Bible study; that first night, when she mentioned Beethoven, and again a few months later, at Sunday Art Group. And then again, in the library, working the desk, and reading John Donne between jobs at the copier.
I was smitten. We talked occasionally after bible study, and two weeks later, I asked her out right there and then, with as much grace and dignity as that of a teenage middle-schooler. She gently — and wisely — refused. We became good friends, though, and it turned out that it was exactly what we both needed.
Winter passed. Spring came. A week before I graduated, I told her that I had grown to love her, and asked her out again. She said yes.
That’s who the girl in the picture is. Her name’s Amy. We’ve been together almost half a year now, and I think we’re in for the long haul.
