Only 101 Lies Men Tell Women? Tracymust’ve only seen the first volume in what certainly must be a series.

[Dave Shea writes]1: “HTML will die. TodayÂ’s internet is obsolete, and anyone still coding in HTML 4 is planning the obsolescence of their own code. " There are many references in the ensuing conversation to the CSS Zen Garden. After reading Dave’s piece, be sure to check out the Zen Garden for a look at what’s possible today.

I’m sure at first glance the flabby, drunken ex-fratboys look like they could be trouble, but [someone should tell T.M.]1 that it’s the “anorexic sorority wives” that will get you every time.

I use plain old vi or Vim pretty regularly these days and in doing so have gotten through one of most painful and frustrating learning curves ever. I actually prefer it to things like jEdit and Homesite for a lot of editing tasks. Trouble is, I can’t shake the urge to learn Emacs. Of course now that I’m actually used to type-beep-curse-type-curse-hit-escape editing, Emacs feels horrible. All that control-meta key contortionism and C-x letter letter M-x

Now that you’ve seen the light and converted to a fast, light, compliant and feature rich Gecko-based browser, go get this amazing collection of bookmarklets by Jesse Ruderman. Amazingly helpful when doing development/design work.

I’m going to post this again. [Reasons to switch to Mozilla Firebird]1. I know I’m never going back.

So we’ve got even odds on surviving some sort of man-made or natural disaster wiping out the entire population. At least according to professor Martin Rees. This comes after reading about a group planning to create a man-made black hole which they’re “pretty sure” won’t just suck in the entire planet. Sell.

Woohoo! Tracy has a new blog, and it’s not just cats.

Useit: Nielsen’s latest piece hits very close to home. I hope we can use it to make the case for usability on every project. “The most important point to remember, though, is that you can do it. No matter what your project, and no matter how big or small your budget, usability is there to help you succeed."

In a recent entry at Joel on Software, Joel says that we finally have a browser that will work as a drop-in replacement for IE. There’s no reason to use IE for day-to-day browsing any more. “All the little problems are fixed. It loads fast. It’s not ugly and clunky. My beloved Alt+D/Ctrl+Enter work perfectly. NT challenge/response authentication is supported. And there are new

Another cool moment: I’m running a complete KDE desktop under Cygwin on my XP box. Terminals, Konquerer and anything else that’ll compile. Here’s a screenshot.

[Jon Udell’s keynote]1 at OSCOM seemed to be a hit. Lots of good advice about doc titles, url purity, search result layout and other goodies.