What the hell was I thinking?

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

I backed out of the global rewrite of my blog's CSS this evening, because let's face it: I had no plan, and I have traded my graphic design chops for code chops long ago. I'll try to revisit this issue later. I have more important things to waste my time with. ...

Clobber and rewrite

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

It's time to redesign. I'll use my traditional method of blowing everything away and starting from scratch. Also upgraded to WordPress 2.3 today. Noticed some of my categories are missing. This is a first for me - usually the upgrades go pretty well. I wonder what design I'll come up with... I also ...

An iPhone Story

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Last Sunday I purchased an iPhone. This was not my plan, but a couple of things came up to prompt this move. This thing is incredible for the most part, but with only one complaint: The Purchase First of all, my expectation was that I'd wait until a second generation release came ...

iPhone ignores the handheld media type

Monday, August 6th, 2007

In the ADC article entitled "Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone", Apple states: You can tailor the style of your webpages by providing a style sheet that adapts to iPhone. The CSS 3 media query allows you to do just that. There are several types of queries including print, handheld, ...

The Four Pillars of the Web

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

My old high school was deeply involved in Round Square - an international organization of high schools that practiced education that strongly aligns with the following "pillars": Internationalism Democracy Environment Adventure Leadership Service My XML teacher mentioned this in the current week's discussion, almost as a passing thought, but I thought this was a poignant list that ...