June 2003
Vector Me
Upgrade your version of Safari
If you’re running an older version of safari I really really really reccomend you upgrade. I get this overwhelming feeling I’m preaching to the choir though ;)
=clint
New Apple Desktops
Aren’t they so SEXY?
Had a excellent time in Chicago
I had a fun time ;)
Here are the pics I got
I am going to Chicago Tomorrow
I am going to chicago tomorrow for a Chicago Ars Technica meet with Jacqui, Will, and some Chinnies. There should be about 20 people or so up there so it should be pretty fun.
I got a haircut the other day and bleached it ;). Here is a picture of me preparing for my trip to chicago
Patent #4558302 Dies Today: GIF is now free
Brad Choate exclaims that GIF is now free to use
He also gives some good links and explaination as to why we need to STOP USING GIFs!!!!! USE PNGS!!!
I also find it ironic that he used an animated gif in the post :P
My RSS Feed is Funky
My RSS Feed is Funky
in other news, no one really gives a damn
Blogging From Class
How geeky :P Thank goodness for all the wireless! THANKS DOUG.
FTPeel PB 2 Is Out
Download it
SFTP is going to be pushed back to version 1.1. Someone should make a standard SFTP/SSH library for Cocoa. Unless someone already has. In that case I’m lookin pretty dumb right now :)
How clean are your URLs?
Noel talks a little bit about creating memorable URLS.
This is a pretty straight forward article and I think its very clear and communicates a lot of good information that a lot of people might not think about :)
Personally my site follows NONE of the ideas he laid out, but I think it should. It used to. But not anymore. For what reason I have no idea :)
Remember when I was famous?
Last week I found a cool link on Sterling Hughes’ website about how he thought that ASP.net was far ahead of PHP.
I let Robert Scoble (a Microsoft Evangelist) know about it and he posted a link to the article and my website on his blog.
That single link sent nearly 800 hits to my website.
Talk about good PR :)
A Few Quickies Before I Hit the Sack
Steve Jobs thought/thinks the segway SUCKS
Man I love Steve Jobs. Just reading through this article and listening to how he commands a room. A room of the staunchest, uppity people in West Coast, San Francisco cutting edge business were held captive by him and he told them what he was thinking. He let them have it. He showed why he is an invaluable asset to any company he presides over. ...
Using Accesskeys to make your site more accessible
A List Apart is an awesome website run by Zeldman and others focusing on using web standards and making websites accessible. The latest issue has an article on a not-so-well-known feature introduced with XHTML:
In Issue No. 158 of A List Apart, For People Who Make Websites: All your favorite applications have shortcut keys. So can your site, thanks to the XHTML accesskey attribute. Accesskeys...
A nutritious helping of design
Design Matters is a design column put out by Sherif Tariq
He extolls the virtues of:
Whitespace
Fonts
Color
Alignment
via Zeldman
What is XML and how does it relate to XHTML
I had a reader of my site, Zach, ask for a better explaination of XML and XHTML. I thought about it a lot since he posted that comment and I decided that it was a topic that I thought I could tackle.
The effectiveness of what I wrote up is debatable, but I think that overall it’s pretty nice. Its loosely structured and kinda follows a line of thought but you’d be hard pressed to find a...
Some dude tried to break into our apartment (I...
So here’s the long and short of it all. Me and Jacqui were hanging out around the apartment this morning around 7:45am. We were all ready to go to campus in about 15 minutes when out of no where we both hear our front door’s handle being jiggled. It was like someone was trying to open the door. However, he was turned away by this crazy new fangled device we had installed called “the lock.” So...
COM 250: Mass Communication
I’ve not yet read the two chapters assigned for this class (which I really should be doing now) but I wanted to get out just a little bit of information and my opinion about the class. The first thing anyone should know about this class is that I am taking it in a four week module. This means that a class which would normally consume 16 weeks is compressed into four short weeks in June and July....
Political Science 141 - Governments of the World
Today marked the first day of my summer courses. I must say that my overall impression is good! This is very suprising to me because in the past I’ve held a bit of aprehension over classes that fall under the arts rather than the sciences. I can also say that traditionally I’ve not had the best of experiences in those classes. For example, I had to take english 103 twice. English 103 was...
New Photo System
I kept bumping up against the limitations of Photostack so I instated my own system. Albeit without the fancy templating (I can do that on my own with PHP :)) but it does thumbnails and supports paging out of the box. Many of its features are photostack compatible however, such as the albums.txt and desc.txt files. I thought it was a cool idea so I implemented this functionality into my app...
Criminals, do your research FIRST
This is why I won’t ever get into the crime business, I’d make stupid mistakes like this:
In a daring heist at JFK airport Thursday night, thieves made off 25,000 Sony Ericsson cellphones. There was just one problem: the phones were fake, they were dummy phones to be used in displays in stores. How pissed must those thieves have been when they figured that out?
Read the Article via Gizmodo...
Core-Crib: I told everyone so
Stupid people shouldn’t get into business for themselves
IE *will* die
Should I keep this topic format up? :D
News.com broke the news last week that Microsoft will not continue to pursue the IE product on the mac platform.
Hurrah! I kinda predicted this. I had a whole series of posts on Microsoft’s recent rumblings on IE of late, just try this:
http://www.phaedo.cx/explorer
HTML *will* die
Why should you write XHTML compliant pages?
HTML will die. Today’s internet is obsolete, and anyone still coding in HTML 4 is planning the obsolescence of their own code. The big picture says that if, and this is a big if, but if we can move to an XML-based internet, then revisions to markup languages, existing and new, don’t require browser updates. Once we have user agents that...
Weekly Clint Update
I am really lagging on my updates. I’ve doing some work at work (wow!) and basically spending a lot of time with Jacqui and the roommates :) This weekend we went to the store for food and then me and Jacqui went down to the pool and swam for an hour or two and had a lot of fun :)
Read on for stuff about a purchase, classes, and the mutiliation of my iBook (NO BABOONS) :) Last night I made a...
SharpReader v0.9.1
Fixes a lot of stuff! Check it out
Zempt and SharpMT: Movable Type Posting Tools
I found out about a pretty cool Moveable Type desktop posting tool today named Zempt. I’ve tried out Kung-Log on my iBook and I really loved it. There hasn’t been any real comparison on the PC side because everyone is trying to support every possible blogging platform in their app. W.bloggar is probably the most popular out of all of those and my opinion they all fail. Miserably! All of the...
How hard is it to find the web editor?
adrian holovaty has wrapped up his Find the Web Editor’s E-Mail Address Week.
I’ve been following Adrian’s attempts over the past five days to try and find the email addresses for the web editors of various large and small newspaper publications with varied success.
Of the six sites surveyed, only one — sacbee.com — made it easy for me to get contact information quickly. Of the...
Various Rumblings: Financial Aid, Photostack 1.1,...
Sorry for the lack of posting lately! I’ve been just kinda hangin out and doin stuff but I haven’t found anything extremely compelling to write about lately ;)
Just read on to learn about all manner of interesting stuff ;) I think that all of my financial aid is in order for the summer session and I should be starting classes on the 16th of June. I should also be getting my first full...
ASP.NET > PHP
Sterling Hughes says ASP.NET is better than PHP
Wow _
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I would die without these applications
I was reading over at #misguided a list of applications that the poster simply couldn’t live without.
Since I’m abnormally preoccupied with software I thought I’d comment on an app that the poster at #misguided turned me on to and some of the apps I love to use on a daily basis! Read on for my list. The first app I’ll list is the newest, Synergy!
He listed a number of cool apps I hadn’t...
Happenings and such
In the past few days we’ve been having to get to and fro on the kindness of our roommates because Jacqui’s car had a dead battery. She finally got it back today. While it was in she had the brake pads, windshield wipers, oil filter, and oil all replaced as well as the offending battery.
Now that that’s all taken care of, we can start going to work at 8am again! woooo..erm? :) No I really...
OMG!
Those Wacky Japanese!
CAT HATS!
MIT Copies Purdue's EET Program?
MIT To Initiate ‘hands-on’ classes for first year EE students
I did this from day one, kinda weird when you think about it. I really feel this is the better approach, industry is probably just sick of students coming out with bachelors degrees who can’t even seriously use a soldering iron.
== “In electrical engineering, the students are not connected to the physical world any more....
For your consideration
I’ve been working on a new CSS style that may or may not become permanent.
Test it out here:
Main Page About Page
The only main differences are with some :hover pseudo-classes on the posts. If you’re using a capable browser (recent gecko or safari) you should notice the change of highlighting on a hove over the browser. The idea is that superflous information like link underlines,...
Computers are cool
The San Jose Mercury Times has an article on Avertec’s sub-$1000, ultralight laptop.
Averatec is offering a superlight laptop (4.3lbs) for around $700 (closer to $500 after rebates at bestbuy). My roommate Will has this laptop and its pretty nice. 3 USB ports, dual monitor capabilities, 40GB hard drive, internal CD rom, PC card slots, 12” screen capable of 1024×768 I think? Its a 1.3GHz...
"Off the Record Interviews" with Steve Jobs and...
I always love hearing about these great people as they are in personal settings (i.e. real people).
Denise Howell has posted some transcripts of some conversations (Q&A mostly) between Walter Mossberg and Steve Jobs as well as some conversations between Walter Mossberd and Bill Gates.
Steve has some interesting things to say, all you apple people can use these answers to check things off...
HTML -> CSS
I did this in HTML, how do I do it in CSS This guide by Tom Gilder. I see this as an excellent guide for those people having a tough time converting their old HTML habits into proper CSS habits. Some people really grapple with simple concepts such as centering items or indenting text when trying to implement them in CSS.
A good site to bookmark if you’re making the transition to CSS layout.
I inadvertantly skipped posting yesterday
It’s probably because yesterday is when Jacqui got back from her vacation (she was gone all last week to Santa Fe, NM). All of the apartment-mates hung out for a while and me and Jacqui eventually headed out to go shopping (my food situation was in dire straights!).
We went to payless and I made a big decision. Lots of stores now-a-days are pulling this scam where they jack up prices...