Month: December 2002

Just got this announcement in my Inbox:

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Greetings,

W3C switched today its home page to a full CSS layout instead of the
previous table-based one. See:
http://www.w3.org/

The techniques used in this layout has been documented at:
http://www.w3.org/2002/11/homepage
It is basically realized through the float property.

As you may know, using CSS for horizontal layout has some important
benefits:
– respect of the HTML semantics (tables are really for tabular data)
– better accessibility
– better device scalability

The downside is that some non-CSS2 aware browsers do not render it as
intended; the page keeps completely readable though.

The W3C Communication Team is interested in hearing comments on this
change on the publicly archived mailing-list site-comments@w3.org
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Kinda cool

I think I have to be an adult now.

In addition to being married, having a steady job, regular bills, a home (an apartment, anyway,) and several friends who have started families, I have one more thing to add to my list of “come on, face it, you’re an adult now – NO NEVER!” list.

Today I turn 25.

I was curious to see what notable figures I share a birthday with. Here are a few that jumped out at me:

1932 Little Richard [Wayne Penniman] — Macon GA, rocker (Tutti Frutti, Lucille)
1901 Werner Heisenberg — German physicist/discovered uncertainty (Nobel 1932)
1901 Walter Elias Disney — Chicago IL, animator (Mickey Mouse)
1839 George Armstrong Custer — Major General (Union volunteers, of Little Big Horn fame)

(from this site)

Nifty Quantum Computing Experiment

Experiment points to new spin on storage

In an experiment that could bring the computing world closer to an advanced method of data storage, a team of scientists successfully reproduced an image that was digitally encoded and momentarily stored within a liquid crystal molecule.

Preview, Robert, Preview…

Edited on Dec 3rd 2002, 00:15 by Hooloovoo