Month August 2002
Backtracking
Reading time: < 1 min HTML Design: If you are aware of the movement towards CSS and away from tables and frames for site structure, read on. If you don’t, I would skip this. A List Apart and WaSP. Two sites campaigning for the same thing, a move towards acceptance of the standard (as defined by the W3) CSS and […]
Darwin Magazine
Reading time: < 1 min Yet another article about Blogs. Yet another article that doesn’t really say much but regurgitate what is happening and where it might lead (company blogs, journalism usage etc etc) nothing radical here. It does mention a course being run at Berkeley where the students will produce a blog about intellectual property, and where you can […]
In Mourning
Reading time: < 1 min I am not currently a Mac user, but I have been in the past. It always intrigued why they had a little smiley face appear when the machine started up. Regardless, it soon became a recognised ‘feature’ (you got a sad face if something was wrong). The face itself has a history, progressing from an […]
Yo-yo
Reading time: < 1 min Up and down. Up and down. That’s pretty much me at the moment. I seem to stumble from one mood to the other, extremity to extremity. One moment craving interaction, the next demanding solitude. Laughter to silence. Occasionally a trick move is thrown, flipping me up and round, dipping and whizzing pasts states of mind, […]
Nose-pickingly good
Reading time: < 1 min I have bad habits, I pick my nails, fart, burp and enjoy a good rake in the nasal area. I’m comfortable telling you this because of a recently published survey into such habits. Conducted by the Science Museum in London as part of an exhibition entitled Grossology, a spokeswoman said: “Overall, we are all pretty […]