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New user? Saturday, February 16, 2002
Damn fine Roots
Rafe notes that "If you've been watching the Olympics, you know that the Canadians have the best outfits.".
:-)
A lot of people have been talking about Roots and the Canadian team's fashion (which also kicked ass in Nagano, btw).
I read a story a couple days ago about Roots' big win because of the Sale/Pelletier story. I found it in Google's cache but can't find an URL that still works. Oh, I just found it (it was a CP story, so I found it on myBC.com):
CP: Roots enjoys windfall at Olympics thanks in part to skating controversy
"The whole camaraderie between Canada and the United States has been solidified.""
Another interesting story about Roots/Canadians:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: OH, CANADA: U.S. DRAWN BY FASHION AND CONTROVERSY
Hey, Canadian Girls Rule, I thought everyone knew that. ;-)
;-(
I can get Roots garb dirt cheap here in Canada. I can't believe the prices people are paying for it on eBay! Want some? ;-)
Joel reveals The Iceberg Secret
Joel on Software - The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
Ugh. So many violent memories come into focus reading that piece. I couldn't finish it. Maybe later. But he's right, Customers Don't Know What They Want.
FOX killing Futurama
I found the Can't get enough Futurama site via the blogdex sidebar.
I didn't realize that FOX was killing Futurama. That sucks! I love that show! :-(
There's a petition you can sign that may or may not actually help in saving the show.
Waaahhh!
Meglander Zoonut
I found a link to Megnut today on Scripting News and decided to see what she had today.
Maybe it's lame to point to people who agree with me instead of disagree with me, but since I haven't said it myself it's not like I'm really being redundant. She said it better than I would have. What did she say? She liked Zoolander, and also likes Office Space (though that's far less controversial IMHO :-))
I loved both movies (Office Space was better obviously).
More CSS talk
Over time I'm finding more of the talk about CSS for layout/design that happened recently. Good links and info on these pages or from these pages:
Jeff's Radio Weblog, Feb 13th / Glish: CSS layout techniques / CSS Koolaid for Newbies
And now an observation... (this isn't a flame, it's not even "pushback")
Many people have remarked that they don't understand why Dave Winer "doesn't get it" w.r.t. CSS vs. table layouts. I have noticed instances where Userland poo-poos a technology, method or standard that is otherwise overwhelmingly favoured... which is not easy to implement or otherwise would not perform well in Frontier for one reason or another.
In this (CSS, tableless) situation, Userland has a LOT of HTML hard-coded in scripts... in Manila, Radio and the fundamental "HTML Framework" which dates back to what, 1995? And a lot of that HTML doesn't validate as valid HTML4 or XHTML, as designers will remark. And not surprisingly, there's a lot of HTML Table code in there. If Userland jumped on the CSS bandwagon they'd find themselves crushed under an avalanche of work to make their products compatible with "the movement". Work which... frankly won't do much to improve their bottom line right now. And that's the bottom line.
So don't be surprised, and don't read too much into there not being unanimous support for CSS layout at the moment. AND, let's credit Userland for doing a CSS theme for Manila and commisioning the Radio-Design group on Yahoo! Groups.
and still more...
The first web browser was graphical. It was a NeXTStep application written by Tim Berners-Lee.
(I don't think he meant layoutless, but I could be wrong!)
Layout is essential in many ways. If it wasn't important CSS wouldn't exist. I don't think hypertext or hyperlinking in HTML suffers because of tables of lack of semantic structure, but it sure could if you're talking XML.
Happy Faces
Yahoo! News Photos - Reuters... picture of the Canadian Women's speedskating suits in the World Championships.
I told you Canadian Girls Rule. :-) Shake what your mama gave you!
TLS for Frontier/Radio
Macrobyte Resources announces a TLS extension for Frontier/Radio!
Macrobyte: Transport Layer Security
Sweet!
Friday, February 15, 2002
Blocked from RU DG
Update, 4:26 PM: I'm unblocked.
I wanted to report a bug and ask a question about upstreaming with Radio UserLand, so I clicked on the "Create a new topic" link on the RU DG page. I logged in and was greeted with this lovely message: (click to expand)
This is unacceptable. Time to contact UserLand.
...
Here's my bug report: images don't appear in the desktop website in Mozilla. The file:/// path used doesn't have the volume name at the beginning, perhaps this is the problem.
Question: What path do files get upstreamed to? I put a file into a new folder in the www folder, and saw in Radio's About window a few seconds later that a file was upstreamed. I tried tacking the foldername/filename.ext after my usernum/ in the url but i got a file-not-found error page.
...
Update: I figured out the upstreaming problem on my own. It only upstreams certain file extensions. Not .tiff apparently.
James Spahr solved the other problem for me. Thanks!
David Kurtz on CSS
I completely agree with David Kurtz's comments about why CSS for layout is the right way.
I'm still working on my CSS design. It will come slowly, because I don't have a lot of time to give to it right now. But I look forward pushing it forward.
Sweden kicks Canada's ass
CANOE: Sundin scores twice, Sweden torpedoes Canada
What a brutal game. Canada got whooped and good. Notice how Sweden's Sundin scored twice on teammate Curtis Joseph and Canada's Brewer scored on teammate Tommy Salo? Why the hell weren't they playing Ryan Smyth, who knows Tommy inside and out (since he's also a teammate in Edmonton)?
Argh!
Thursday, February 14, 2002
Garage Sale in SF
Jean Drolet, a former co-worker and (still) great friend of mine is having a moving sale on Feb. 23rd in San Francisco.
They have beautiful furniture. If you're in the area, take a look.
Update on Xavier -- 3 weeks
I haven't written about Xavier since I went back to SF to pack and move back to Victoria. Everyone's been asking how he's doing, sorry for not sharing... :-)
Xavier's doing great! He's growing, eating well, sleeping lots (although more during the day than the night), and as far as we can tell he's totally healthy. He's also very strong. Newborn clothes don't fit him at all, he's wearing 3 month old stuff minimum.
It's still hard to believe all of him and that huge placenta (one of the biggest the OB GYN had ever seen) could have fit into my tiny (5'0") wife. :-)
People have also been asking for pictures. I'll endeavour to get some more online soon.
CSS2 design
Over the last couple of days, respected designers have been extolling the virtues of tableless HTML design. They've sold me.
I'm working on a tableless (except for the calendar) design for this site. It's fun to learn new things!
BTW, the site that proved to me it could be done, or, that I could do it is diveintomark.org. Clean HTML, CSS and JS files to learn from. What could be better? Thanks for pointing it out Steve!
And thanks to James Spahr for sharing this killer bookmark:
