Sfear and Ryan, the other two-thirds of digital?confusion are both leaving Austin. Actually, Ryan is already gone and Sfear will be leaving in another week or so. I'm afraid digital?confusion will slowly fade after this. Collaboration through the internet is still pain in the butt; video collaboration even more so.
I just finished the functionality for my Microsoft-Free Fridays. I haven't even actually verified that it works (I can't test until Friday) but it's live so, testing or no testing, we'll see how it works this Friday, the 27th.
I just tested it out and it worked like a charm. It's a good feeling to have something work the right way on the first try. You can test it out too; use Internet Explorer on Friday and link to http://www.cookiecrook.com/ or just go directly to my Microsoft-free Friday page.
My Clown Knife Fish died this past Friday. He had grown from six inches to fifteen inches while I had him. He was sharing the 55-gallon tank with three other fish: two plecs (algae eaters) and a large goldfish. The goldfish was originally intended to be food but he eluded capture long enough to to outgrow the hunter. All four fish died from exposure to diseased feeder fish that I bought at PetSmart. The Clown Knife was the last to go. This video is not of my fish though it will show you what a Clown Knife looks like when it's swimming.
The 10 Most Criminal Cereal Mascots of All Time I found this link while searching for "cookie crook" on google's image search. Apparently, Chip ranks #1 along with the Lucky Charms Leprechaun and the Trix Rabbit. I think the original Cookie Crook should have placed number one though apparently he's retired.
Merriam-Webster's online dictionary has been an invaluable commodity to me but I was really impressed with their latest addition - audio pronunciations. Have you ever wondered the correct German pronunciation of "Koln"? Not only is this incredibly useful for non-hearing-impaired users, it also raises the bar for high-level ADA compliancy on large-scale websites.
The above statement regarding ADA compliancy is completely theoretical. Merriam-Webster's site does not meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and their audio pronunciations do not work in some browsers. It's a cool idea though.
I added something new to my webx page. Since all major browsers can parse XML on the client-side now, I thought I'd try it out. (This is undefined XML, not XHTML) The latest versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera all display it flawlessly. IE 5.0 has problems diplaying CSS margins but gets the rest right for the most part.
I finally found it. A way to undermine the tediom that is: A Day Job. The Artful Dodge has come up with a collaboration project that is a call to designers to essentially leave their "tag" on a corporate website. Creators of The Barnstar Subterfuge cleverly phrased it:
The shape needs to be unique enough to be easily identified by those who are aware of the project, and yet generic enough to be seen by clients and the actual users of the site designs, as simple decoration.
I stole this link from Zeldman, but thought it was a good topic to write about. Eric Meyer, the author of O'Reilly's Cascading Style Sheets book, wrote a useful article explaining pseudo-elements in CSS1 and CSS2. If you don't know CSS, don't start with this article. Instead, try out one of many online tutorials like W3 Schools or another link from Eric's list of CSS Resources.
Cascading Style Sheets are what allow web developers to "separate style from content." This is a very logical way to build webpages, unfortunately it's not fully supported in the more prevelant version of Netscape. Evil version 4.7... Don't get me started.
I just found this one: Rich In Style seems to be pretty thorough. It's got a full CSS2 tutorial, notation of known bugs in various browsers, etc.
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