See Don Park’s post on why you shouldn’t use XHTML for web pages.
“Unfortunately, it amounts to technical masturbation because there are no real benefits to using XHTML. Even worse, using XHTML can be down right harmful.”
Always nice to hear another, differing opinion
Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 really is a fabulous browser. I installed it the minute it was released, as version 0.6 still had the god-awful autocomplete bug. Haven’t experienced even the slightest hiccup since. I was browsing from someone else’s machine earlier using IE 6 and realized how good Firebird really is. No popups, tabs, lightweight and clean interface and quick access to everything useful in a browser. Add to that a few (optional) extensions and life is good.
While some would call it a bit early, I’m sticking with and moving to MySQL for everything I possibly can. Just like the press release says, “it will now be easier for you to obtain approval from your
management and customers to use MySQL in mission-critical projects. SAP is
trusting MySQL AB with their database needs, so why shouldn’t everyone?”
Saw my first polo match today. I’ve never ridden a horse without falling off, so I can only imagine the skill it takes to ride that fast while hitting a little ball with a stick. The best part was stomping the divits between chukkers 3 and 4, which means we all got to run around the field and replace bits of sod torn up during the match.
Halley Suitt reminds me to think of the chaos surrounding children in a more positive light.
“…it makes me mad to have all these useless little things swirling around my house in complete chaos, but I flipped a switch in my brain to look at the same item the way Jackson sees it”
Steven Soderbergh tries bringing something new to every film he’s involved with. With Solaris, he brings a love story to science fiction with a beatifully shot mind game that was better than the original (1972 by Andrei Tarkovsky). Ambiguous, moody and not for everyone, but interesting and very much worth the effort.
Here is a nicely done 3 Column Complex Layout demo with a twist. All of the content is used to describe itself. Things like…
“This fixed width sidebar, #leftbox, is absolutely positioned with a left position given but no top positioning. This is so it will automatically position itself based on the size of the #header div.”
Speaking of the Family Guy, check this bit from a Newsweek article:
“The show—a bitingly funny send up of family sitcoms featuring a moronic patriarch, a talking dog and a diabolical, British-accented infant boy—is drawing 1 million viewers per episode—topping Leno and Letterman among 18- to 34-year-old men
Too many 80’s pop culture references in one show? Nah, and nearly all of them are found on the Familyguyfiles.com pages. (Thanks to Matthew for the llink)
(The possessive, not the contraction!) I’ve been keeping a weblog of one form or another since, well, for a long time. The first one was a basic custom app written in ColdFusion sometime around 1997 or 1998. You may have noticed that I’m a bit flighty when it comes to software, so who knows what I’ll be blogging with next week? The downside of all this moving around is that I seem to have lost a great deal of history in the process.
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