Safari 1.0 and Panther are nice and all, but it’s things like Metapkg that are going to make me switch.

I totally lifted this from [Tom Gilder’s Blog]1, but what a clever little trick. Notice the drop shadow around the banner (where it say’s White Noise up there.) This effect used to require a number of nested tables, which we all now know to be a Bad Idea. Instead, there are 6 nested DIV elements, each with a different background image. Mix with some fancy CSS bits like repeat-y and repeat-x and viola!

Is it just me, or does the link cosmos for jackbaty.com show me as somefoolwitha.com? Something seems amiss.

Well I moved this weblog back to using Blosxom. Tough call, since I liked PHPosxom just fine. Truth is, I wanted to play with the large and growing number of plugins that are available for Bloxsom. The plugin implementation is simple, intuitive and elegant. I cleaned up a few other things also. I love the buttons from [Steal these buttons]3. Not sure who to credit for the idea, although the first

You may (or may not) have noticed that I bumped the font size for posts to 12px. (Don’t argue with me about using pixels, they resize just fine in Mozilla Firebird.) Truth is, I was finding it hard to read my own posts.

So T.M. breaks down and gets a cell phone, but not without [ranting for a few fun paragraphs first]1. He says it looks like a “robotic apricot,” although I liked Tracy’s description better. I believe she called it a little “pussy-assed” phone. They’re both right.

Halley gets blogrolled for pointing me to a wonderful Emerson essay: Self-Reliance “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can

From Good Experience: [The Most Important User Experience Method]1. “Changing the organization is the most difficult and most important part of user experience work… said another way, you can give the smartest answers in the world, make the most brilliant recommendations; but if the organization doesn’t actually change the user experience, it’s all worthless.

A [first hand account]1 of the meeting where Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos were introduced to the Segway. Jobs said he lived seven minutes from a grocery and wasn’t sure he would use Ginger to get there. Bezos agreed. Jobs: “I think it sucks…Its shape is not innovative, it’s not elegant, it doesn’t feel anthropomorphic.”

One of the things that I didn’t like about tabbed browsing was that I couldn’t rearrange the tab order in Firebird. Funny you should mention that, the [tabbrowser extension]1 solves that problem, and many more, quite nicely.

This would be so cool hanging in the office at Fusionary! C’mon, it’s only 35K!

GWB makes yet another task look easy. [Read the article]2