ISSN 1496-3221
October 24, 2002
Sure, I’ve got the Newtons. And I’ve got the PDP8/M, SGI Iris and Xerox Memorywriter in the garage. There’s the prototype Bebox and stack of GridPads in the basement. Of course there’s the pile of fourty foot SCSI cables, the wall of vintage software and the two Apple Lisas at the storage place, but I … More
October 23, 2002
Friend Issa has finally caught the CSS bug. Caught it bad. Not only has he managed to strip four hundred and fifty pounds worth of convoluted nested table code out of our corporate intranet’s prebuilt templating system, but he’s found time to rejig his own site as well. Nicely done. Oh, and by the way, … More
October 23, 2002
Sunrise through chain link fence. Heritage Drive Southeast, Calgary.
October 23, 2002
Don’t go blaming me for the headline. That’s exactly what it says on the Transmit 2.0 product page. Yep, the party boys at Panic have released an Aqualicious new version of their hype FTP client, this one specifically tuned up for OS X. Panic co-founder Steven Frank riffs further on Transmit’s remixed innards amidst his … More
October 23, 2002
Web-based typeface previewing tools are a bit old hat. However, the font consuming public still expects that if you sell type, your site should be able to display type in ways beyond the static jpeg. To this point, we launched a crisp, clean type previewer called Flont last week on the Veer site. We realize … More
October 23, 2002
Grant Neufeld has been mucking about with his own stylesheet for RSS, just in case you’d like to pretty up your raw XML for browsers that don’t handle that particular function themselves. Here’s an example of what it looks like. For comparison, the W3C RSS feed is also formatted using the same technique. And seeing … More
October 22, 2002
I run several weblogs besides this one. Most of them are powered by Blogger Pro, which has this option to publish an RSS feed along side the normal HTML version of the weblog. I figured I should check those feeds using the spiffy new RSS validator built by Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby. Of course, … More
October 21, 2002
The available domain name of the week is boltdozer.com
October 21, 2002
Look at what I found rattling around on the web today. To begin, Mr Zeldman has started redesigning using pure CSS. Begone ye vile nested table dwelling creatures. You have jury duty? Godspeed Jeffrey. And please keep an eye on the sandwiches. I’ve heard tales. Next we find that something seems to be buzzing in … More
October 21, 2002
Snow melting on metal grate. 7th Street Southwest, Calgary.