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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 […]
Unpacking and refurnishing are my least favorite parts of having a new apartment. With the boxes still piled and the room still bare, the place felt at first more like a prison than a domicile. Fortunately, with furnishings and other odds and ends purchased from DC.CL, LNT, TCS, and NWL, the room is feeling more […]
Looks like a military uprising in progress. A small group of mutineers from the Philippine military, calling themselves “Magdalo” (also the name of a group of Spanish-era revolutionaries) have been seen planting explosives in the area of Ayala Center and Hotel Intercontinental in Makati. Bombs and booby traps laid around a thriving commercial district populated […]
Geese gassed. Local officials call the geese a nuisance, saying their droppings are causing health and safety problems. The county has rounded up hundreds of geese and killed them in portable gas chambers, angering animal lovers. “It’s genocide of a wild species,” said Sue Russell with Center for Animal Protection. New Jersey animal rights activists […]
Some of the changes implemented: New Code: I’ve rewritten the code for the weblog and the common template from scratch, using more object-oriented code and consolidating functions and content into fewer files. Hopefully this should make for a faster and easier-to-update website. Rehashed Layouts: I had originally intended to just add minor revisions to the […]
While I’m away and/or still tweaking the blog, entertain/inform yourself with these links collected in my post-academic absence: – You Grow Girl! Gardening for dummies. – Kalsey’s Buttonmaker, a simple GUI frontend to the button image generator, which has only helped to propagate the “Buttons for Everything” meme. (I got this link through an IM […]
Today was a wonderful springtime afternoon; with the sun out, the sky blue, a cool breeze blowing, temps hovering around the mid-70’s, and people out by the hundreds to stroll along Inner Harbor. A fine day to rollerblade around the Harbor, Fells Point, and of course, Little Italy, to avidly engage in rampant, expensive consumerism.
Every Satuday morning, I cross the road to buy a loaf of bread from Piedigrotta, a quaint little bakery on the outskirts of Little Italy. The baker Antonio and his wife Bruna are wonderful people; and just standing in that little shop, smelling the heady scent of freshly baked bread, it brings a smile to […]
Looks like today was a happy day at Fardus Square. Right now I’m still gathering thoughts on the war and the liberation, but for now, I’ll leave you a thought linked from blogs4God: “Beware consequentialist thinking.” I’m happy for the freed people of Iraq, and I’m glad to see an oppressive dictator being toppled, but […]
I strongly recommend against watching the entirety of Beckett’s Not I while freshly wired on strong coffee. Addendum: Sorry, the old link was to the Julianne Moore refilming of “Not I,” but the video we watched was Billie Whitelaw’s clamped head. My mistake.