In my aimless meanderings across the net, I came across an interesting atricle about online music downloads written by the singer/songwriter Janis Ian.
She has an interesting point of view, and I thought I should share the link with everyone: THE INTERNET DEBACLE – AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
(I’ve never heard her music, but I’m going to DL some of her MP3’s when I’m done posting this.)
I was just about to post to the GLUE board about broken RSS feeds when I noticed that there was anotehr XML graphic on (almost) every page. one for RSS .92 and one for RSS 1.0 – So that’s why my feeds broke – Gossip went and changed their URIs on me. 😛
Guess I should pay more attention to the changelog.
(edited for clarity)
Edited on Jul 10th 2002, 00:52 by Hooloovoo
proof-read, damnit proof-read. gah!
Edited on Jul 10th 2002, 00:55 by Hooloovoo
New Web standards education and outreach forum: “W3C is starting a new discussion list, the Web standards education and outreach forum, for Web standards evangelists, authors, and…”
I’ve subscribed to the mailing list described above – I think I’m going to see what other list the W3C has to offer, too.
New CSS Tutorial: Web Page Reconstruction with CSS: “Although spilling into July a bit, Digital Web has one more tutorial for its June CSS theme. Web Page Reconstruction…”
I’m going to be looking over this tutorial when I have a chance to see if it can help with some of the IE rendering bugs I encountered with the redesign of my website
thinks he should find something else to write blog entries on.
Everyone is probably sick of hearing about my cats.
I’ve got a wierd question: What color is your lint?
I live in a small apartment complex, with a single washer/dryer for the 6 units. When I started doing some laundry Sunday, I noticed the color of the lint in the lint trap for the dryer was a dark red. I thought about how that was an odd color for lint, since the lint for my laundry is usually varies between a medium and a light blue.
As I thought about it some more, I began to wonder about the nature of lint. Is the lint from my laundry the color it is because I tend to wear clothing that is blue, white, or black in color? If someone were to where more reds, or greens, or yellows, would the color of thier lint reflect this? That seems reasonable to me, since when I do a load of whites, the lint is lighter in color, but still has a blue hue to it.
So, I figured this would be a good place to get random sample for an impromptu survey: What color is your lint?
I already want to rework the design used on my website. There are a couple of rendering problems I’m going to try and fix while still maintaining valid code. (That reminds me, I should run the site thrugh the W3C validator and make sure it is actually valid…)
Update1: With a couple of minor fixes, (like specifying the character encoding,) the site now validates as HTML 4.0 Transitional. The CSS validates as well. Wheeee!
Update2: With a few more tweaks, the site now validates as HTML 4.01 Strict. (Except for the blog page.)
The page displays as intended in Mozilla 1.0 (Mac and PC). Opera 6 (PC) does a pretty good job of it, save for a problem with the page headlines. IE Mac (I foget which version is installed on that test machine) is better than IE 6 (PC) — but both are doing wierd crap to the margins. I think opera was doing something weird too – but it wasn’t as noticable as with IE.
I was afraid to open the page in NS4, and with good reason. I think I’m going to employ some of the techniques described on the WaSP and ALA websites to deal with that.
Edited on Jul 2nd 2002, 20:17 by Hooloovoo
Edited on Jul 2nd 2002, 21:09 by Hooloovoo