Tag: geekery

My room at the CheaperNearby hotel naturally offers no high-speed access and sadly I can’t get my modem to work with it either. Fortunately, Roadrunner offers pay-for-use wireless service in the RiverCenter mall attached to the Marriott, so I can briefly check mail and get a message out to the wider world before heading to…

When inviting friends to an orkut community, the interface should remove from the list friends who are already in the group, and maybe even let you know which you have already invited, in case they silently declined to join in which case things could get awkward. More: Brian Dear has some impressions of orkut too.

Scot Hacker reminisces about the early days of web design in Remembering Netscape Related: Stephen Mack’s Requiem for Mosaic

Every few years some new technological framework comes along to challenge Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop. Since the advent of the Internet, Microsoft has managed to fight off Netscape (IE), Java (.Net), application service providers (Hotmail), remote process calls (SOAP), and U.S. antitrust law (Bush). OK, I’m waving my hands here. Not all these things…

Apologies for the butt-ugly design choices visible right now here at X-POLLEN. I’m trying to track down a CSS (style sheet) error, and it helps me visualize the various design blocks to give them distinct colors and ugly borders. Maybe you can help. The problem is in the left two-thirds (links) area of the page.…

Via MediaSavvy (a site whose brand combines two of my favorite buzzwords of recent times), I found this article called The Web’s Hippie Period is So Over. It’s an amusing take on the usual web dev chitchat, despite its ahistorical spin on the recent past. Gerry McGovern, the article’s author, is a content guy, web…

My favorite referrer of the day: A search on the “without bra on beach no writing pictures”&#8212:I like the specificity.

Geez, you go away for a long weekend and the pornographer blog knocks you back down to fourth place in the all-time rankings…. John McCain was surprisingly funny on Saturday Night Live. Got to watch the Sopranos in my hotel room last night. (Without cable I usually have to wait a year or so for…

Eh, I’ll be out of town til Monday night, at my cousin’s wedding in So.Cal. Be good. Read my blogroll for me while I’m away. Catch you on the flip side. Oh, and remind me next week to post about my minor revelation about personal filing. Hint: it’s all about journaling.

Read in the Times today that Yahoo and SBC are teaming up to offer a DSL service and compete with AOL, MSN, and EarthLink. Also saw an ad on TV last night advertising a $29.95 (I think) monthly rate to sign up for SBC/Yahoo DSL. Well, I already have SBC DSL and I’m paying $20…

Since Jrobb and dws and others have posted their form code, the strange decoding, unencoding, recoding behaviors of the Radio RSS Aggregator appear to have rendered my Delete button inoperable. Or is this just me?

Well, the race is on. Will I catch up to the (on vacation) Plan B blognovel to become the number two all-time Salon blog after Scott? Or will the Cowgirl lap me before I make it? For all I know I may have plateaued (that can’t be the right spelling) already. It’s embarassing to be…

I can’t figure out what’s wrong, but when I look at the home page all I see is the first-draft-with-typo version of my first entry of the day and nothing since. They Events Log appears to show regular uploads and my local versions of the pages are up-to-date, so I don’t know what the problem…

Arrived JFK last night around 11:20. Cab to the village, a little late night conversation, and then sleep. Now it’s just after 10:30 a.m. east coast time, so about 7:30 to my west-coast head. Soon I’ll go out in search of coffee and a newspaper. In the meantime, I couldn’t resist connecting over my host’s…

A reader I’ve been discussing blog page-design with asks me: Got one more query for you if you don’t mind. For some reason, my page is no longer showing up on the “Updated Weblogs” page, although it does show up on referrals and rankings. I’ve been tuning a bit and it’s possible I deleted something…

Well, per my last entry, the fix listed fixed some problems but the category/navigator links still look messed up. Again this seems to have to do with when things are re-rendered. Frustrating…. Apologies for the design inconsistencies as I try to resolve these technical difficulties. In other news, I just opened a Café Press store…

That’s me in the corner… Uh, somehow Radio streamed my home template in a way that changed the syntax of the body style declaration. It added an <a href etc. around the url, the way you would turn a raw address into a link, but not in my template! Any idea why this is happening and…

Experimenting with a new design, a kind of bastard stepchild CSS/tables monstrosity. Anyway, I can’t seem to get the jpg to upstream into the /www/images/ directory. Do I have to put all my art in myPictures? Things need padding, and I have to learn how clearing and floating works to get better at placing CSS…

I must have been asleep at the switch, because the5k.org announced its 2002 winners (finally) on Wednesday.

How do I include a list of the categories associated with each entry?

How do I delete a category in Radio?