Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I love my new town
We sit outside at restaurants, people walk to the store, tonight I saw a couple of neighbors standing outside talking.
On the other hand, it looks like the electric lock system in my car is going out.
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Bush admits he approved torture
Bush admits he approved torture
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
What do rogues do?
So so true. I love my rogue.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Why “Reset” Style Sheets Are Bad
Why “Reset” Style Sheets Are BadOkay, Jonathan set the pace, Eric countered, a few people carried on, and me, officially having announced comprehensive reset and undo style sheet criticism in January, feels finally obliged to politely point out that reset style sheets are bad: A novice should not use them, an expert would not use them.
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CSS with vertical rhythm
CSS with vertical rhythmThis tool will help you compute CSS that has a consistent vertical rhythm
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas
Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
According to classic principles of web design, everything at the bottom of the page isn’t that important. Most users think like that. And most designers are convinced that this is true. Site elements at the bottom of the page aren’t really able to catch visitors’ attention which is why footers are often forgotten or ignored and not given the attention they deserve.In fact, most footers are rather boring and uninspiring. Designers often use the bottom area to mention everything they haven’t found place for at the top of the site. E.g. disclaimers, W3C-buttons, copyright, “back to the top”-link and contact details. But if most designers forget it, why don’t make use of it? Why don’t use footers to impress visitors with something they actually don’t expect at all?
This post presents creative examples of footers and ideas for footer design. We’ve tried to identify some trends and some interesting approaches you may want to use or develop further in your projects.
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Gun owners are the happiest people in the US
Gun owners are the happiest people in the US - Boing Boing
Interesting.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
FontCubes.com
Download Free Fonts - FontCubes.com
Here you’ll find the best free PC fonts and free Mac Fonts from the best font artists in the world.
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Tomorrow’s CSS Today: 8 Techniques They Don’t Want You To Know
Tomorrow’s CSS Today: 8 Techniques They Don’t Want You To Know [CSS Tutorials]
With all the hype over new and upcoming browser support for advanced CSS features, developers can be confused about the CSS they can include in web projects today. Many of the more advanced features aren’t widely supported by the dominant browsers, but some very useful ones are — including newer features from CSS3.
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According to a poll of 109 historians, George W. Bush is the Worst. President. Ever
According to a poll of 109 historians, George W. Bush is… (kottke.org)
According to a poll of 109 historians, George W. Bush is the Worst. President. Ever, hobnobbing with the likes of Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Franklin Pierce at the bottom of the barrel.
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Five Myths About Drinking Water
Five Myths About Drinking Water : NPR
8 glasses a day is bunk!
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Real Story about my grandmother
Real Story about my grandmother (my dad’s mom)
She had a routine dr visit scheduled last Thursday morning - about 6:20am she called me to come help her up as she’d fallen down and couldn’t wake Dad. (She’s O.K.!) Anyway, I went over and got her up, and checked her out before getting her to bed - she had a red spot on one cheek where she’d hit something on the way down, and I commented that I thought she’d probably have a bruise. A few hours later we’re sitting in the doctor’s waiting room - under the flourescents, I could see that a blue patch was starting to form on her cheek - I looked closely at it and told her, “Yeah, you’re gonna have a big bruise there.” She replies, not in an overly loud voice but plenty loud enough for the receptionist and all the folks sitting nearby to hear: “At least when your Father hits me, he hits me where the bruises won’t show.”
I keep telling her that making jokes like that in a doctors office is like making bomb jokes in an airport.
Oh, well.
Between my dad’s family and my mom, I never stood a chance.
65 Resources for Grid-Based Design
65 Resources for Grid-Based Design | Vandelay Website Design
Grid-based design is obviously a popular approach in modern web design. Ford designers that use grids, this post includes links to useful tools that can improve your efficiency and effectiveness, as well as some articles for advanced techniques. For those of you who are not as familiar with the details of grid-based design, there are plenty of articles and learning resources here.
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Debra’s pics of the new house
Picasa Web Albums - Debra - Tanya and Lau…
Tanya and I’ll be moving in a couple of weeks and our friend Debra took pics of the new house.
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Vertically center content with CSS
Vdot Media - Vertically center content with CSS
A convenient benefit of using tables is the ability to vertically center content within a cell using the valign attribute. Unfortunately, acheiving the same effect with CSS isn’t so convenient. So, as we continue to move towards tableless structures, there comes a need for a simple and valid CSS alternative. There have been a number of ways to approach this feat, but in this tutorial, I will lay out the technique we use to vertically center content using CSS.
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