As I watched Josh scroll uselessly up and down trying to find a recent post on my blog I realized that my Blogger archives were for crap. My blog had way too many entries on the page, and the only reason was that once they hit the archives they are pretty much lost for good […]
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Monthly Archives: January 2004
Firebird 0.8 - Positive Reasons to Switch
Friday, January 30, 2004
Mozilla Firebird 0.8 is coming out soon. Getting one step closer to leaving beta with 1.0. I’ve been doing some thinking about how to persuade people to switch to Firebird. It is easy to say, “you should use Firebird because Microsoft is an evil corporation and it is dangerous for novice users to use Internet […]
Sushi Race
Friday, January 30, 2004
This is what flash is for. Not websites, but foolish little games.
Sneakers
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Two men are hiking in the mountains. One suddenly stops, removes his hiking boots, and starts putting on sneakers. The other asks why he is doing that.
The first man answers, “I thought I saw a cougar stalking us.”
The second argues, “You can’t outrun a mountain lion, not even with sneakers.”
The first responds, “I don’t need […]
SEO
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
I read this article about search engine optimization wherein it was recommended to, if one must use query strings to generate pages, use & rather than just & in the hrefs so that robots don’t choke on the links.
I know, I know, use .htaccess to make user friendly URLs. Bah. I’ll get to it eventually. […]
Primitive Hunting Device
Sunday, January 25, 2004
ät-lätl
A throwing device usually consisting of a stick fitted with a thong or socket to steady the butt of a spear or dart and extend the length it travels.
Update: A word of explanation is in order here. An atlatl is a primitive hunting device that some historians believe was used by early […]
Flexible Node Retrieval
Sunday, January 25, 2004
I so didn’t know enough about DOM scripting when I first read about gazingus’ Flexible Node Retrieval to have any clue what he was talking about, or why it might be so useful. This post is just to say now I do, and a reminder to myself to read Andy,
Simon, and
Liorean’s posts on the topic. […]
Rapid Production with Web Standards
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Next week is going to be a test of using web standards to rapidly produce a website in a drastically different manner than traditional web design practices. Here’s the situation. I have the basic information design, information architecture, the target audience and even the copy (in Dutch, to be translated into French for the bi-lingual […]
BioSurgery Site Launch
Friday, January 23, 2004
At my day job we just launched a web standards based site:
http://www.advancingbiosurgery.com/
Only the "U.S.A." site is up, Canada will be moving over to the new template next, followed by Europe.
Interesting story about how I got the content manager to learn HTML. When the designer handed over the photoshop comps he had a list of points […]
Inaccessibility Illegal in UK
Friday, January 23, 2004
Website owners face prosecution. No, this is a good thing. If only it were happening in the states. You would think that sue happy Americans would have jumped on this bandwagon and made laws allowing them to force big companies to hire me. There are laws for sites with governmental funding, but I want the […]