Web Standards Update
Great news today! Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 has become a candidate recommendation. Finally! It’s only been around for five or six years. Pretty soon it should be a full recommendation. Excellent work!
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Experiment
Anyone played with Google Analytics? We’re considering using it at work, so I’ve justed the reference to the JavaScript file in the footer. (Took all of 2-3 minutes… Gotta love server-side includes!) Here is a test pdf file to see if Analytics will track PDF files. If you want to grab it, open it, that…
Ugly Web Sites That Work
At my day job, we are currently redesigning the corporate Web site. I am responsible for doing most of the coding for the site. During lunch, I have been reading articles on CSS, XHTML, site design, structure, management, etc. Today, Slashdot had a link to an article at Site Reference called “The Surprising Truth About…
Delightful Days
Last night, at a sparkly 4:00 AM in the morning, my toilet decided it wasn’t going to flush. The water backed up from under the rim and the base of the toilet. Mopped all of that up and was too frazzled to go to bed. Figured I would write a blog post about it. SQL…
Linux Chicks
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Maps of War
A Twitter post today mentioned the Maps of War, a site that has history maps with time lines showing the progression of different events overlaid on a map. Two of the maps caught my eye: Imperial History of the Middle East and the History of Religion. I’ve embedded both of them here. While not much…