Nice. A 3-col layout via CSS that has variable height columns and a footer that stays nicely at the bottom. And no hacks or absolute positioning.

Tim Bray points to the OBJECTIVE: Christian Ministries: Homepage and asks whether it’s a parody site. If you need to ask, does it matter?

Mark Pilgrim discovers that Google’s new calculator knows the answer to life the universe and everything. (Yes, it’s 42). Don’t forget about the conversions. I tried “98 degrees fahrenheit to celsius” and got “98 degrees Fahrenheit = 36.6666667 degrees Celsius”. How cool is that!?

Jessica made it through the final cuts during tryouts for the freshman girls basketball team. Go Jess!

We were talking today about the Wired article on synthetic diamonds. I’ve never been a big fan of the diamond industry’s (aka the De Beers cartel) tactics. Anil Dash, back in January, does a pretty good job of explaining why we can do without the current diamond “industry.” In response to a print ad… “Want your materialistic, easily-misled wife to stop being such a frigid bitch? Buy her a diamond!

Simon Willison Don’t use document.all reminds me that old habits should be reviewed every now and again, just to be sure they still make sense. Javascript’s document.all is one that doesn’t. As Simon says: “Don’t use document.all. document.getElementById() is supported by every Javascript supporting browser released since 1998.”

Well, Google now has a calculator built in. Seemed a little silly at first, until I realized that I can type an expression into Firebird’s Google toolbar and get a result faster than fumbling around with Start->Programs->Accessories->Calculator.

I was riding around in a canoe this past weekend with a couple of young kids, just talking and rowing – Hannah telling a story about how she once caught a 15 inch smallmouth bass. “We made salmon out of it.” she said.

Yet another worm attacking Microsoft boxes is on the loose (see CERT). This is the second vulnerability in the past week or so targeting the NetBIOS ports. At the very least, block TCP/UDP ports 135,139 and 445 at the firewall. I sure do. Good thing, last time I checked the logs, I was blocking from 10 to 20 requests every second or two.

From a comment on this post on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog… “Well, part of Yahoo will likely never run PHP. But there seems to be slow but steady movement away from our home-grown stuff to PHP. It’s just a matter of time…”

Voltaire may have said it first, but I’ve at least agreed with the phrase “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” DKR brings it up again with Gorilla Web Tip Number Five DKR Productions – Freelance Web Design" href=“http://www.7nights.com/dkrprod/gwt_five.php"> The Myth of Perfect Web Design. “Hey, it’s not perfect, but it’s good, and that’s better than most.”

Kevin’s new site is online, looking all fun and stuff. www.umamidesign.com Good luck Kev!