Monthly Archives: October 2002

Not dead yet.

Still alive… I think. Have worked about 40 or 50 hours in the past 3 days. First release of work project happens tomorrow, after which I hope to take a 4 day vacation to celebrate my and my girlfriend’s birthday (Oct 24, same day). Some revelations over the last few days:October is not [...]

RSS icon in CSS & HTML

Found something sick from JWZ on LiveJournal – a CSS-based RSS icon. Believe it or not, it’s smaller in bytes than the gif. XML

Status check, damage report

Still fighting my way through the following: iBook hard drive crash (it’s still making that noise, though I thought I could cordon off the bad blocks)subsequent email loss (tried to mail me in the last month? try again, please?)final sprint to the end of a work projectMy girlfriend’s moving in with me!It’s my birthday [...]

Is the iBook supposed to make that noise?

Ugh. Hard drive in my little iBook is going “brr-tick-tick-tick-tick. brr-tick-tick-tick-tick.” while various processes inexplicably freeze up and go AWOL. These are things I’ve come to recognize as the death of a hard drive. So, since I’ve been putting everything on my laptop lately, I’m feeling a bit lost today. [...]

A new toy, and blaming Vinge

So I finally broke down and bought a new gadget. My phone was 5 years old and losing its antenna, and my Handspring Visor Deluxe (pre-ordered the day of introduction!) was showing its age. I was thinking that, for the phone, I’d get something small and sleek. Something that would likely fall [...]

Microsoft and Clip Art Follies

This is why I love the web & blogosphere these days. It’s getting just a little harder to get away with bullshit every day. :) Threads cross at on Dave’s site and Metafilter, among other sites, and Microsoft’s counter-Switch ad is revealed. Man. And they even used a clip art image for [...]

It’s all about the conversation, not the referrer logs.

Mark Pilgrim implements something I’ve been thinking about for awhile: His “Further Reading Upgrades” now harvest what appears to be the paragraph surrounding a link on a referring page. Along with the RSS feed of “Further Reading” items he’s made available, he’s got a nice game of follow-the-leader set up for the rest of [...]

A breakthrough in outline transclusion!

Funny, I’ve just been toying around the last few weeks with doing just this, for AmphetaOutlines, to cut down on the wodge of HTML it feeds the browser all at once. Marc Barrot presents Transclusion Breakthrough: The Endless Web Page. The post reads a bit like an advert for Amazing Live Seamonkeys!, but [...]