January 30, 2002
A ton of terrific type on Cascading Style Sheets at the Web Developer’s Virtual Library:
Style Sheets allow you to control the rendering, e.g. fonts, colors, leading, margins, typefaces, and other aspects of style, of a Web document without compromising its structure. CSS is a simple style sheet mechanism that allows authors and readers to attach style to HTML documents. It uses common desktop publishing terminology which should make it easy for professional as well as untrained designers to make use of its features. Visual design issues, such as page layout, can thus be addressed separately from the web page logical structure.
January 30, 2002
Brinkster is a free web host that supports ASP. You get 30 MB of space and no ads on your site, plus ASP 3.0 support, MS Access databases, a web-based file manager, and control of the ADO & FileSystemObject. How cool is that?
There is a great article on / introduction to the syntactical differences between VB.NET and C# at 4GuysFromRolla.com. 4Guys is really one of the best sites on the ‘net for Active Server Pages tutorials and information. DevGuru is another good one. What’s your favorite?
January 30, 2002
Cyber-Gish - not to be confused with Normal-Jish - has created a Forum for discussing blogging shtuff. You might want to pop over there and say hi.
January 29, 2002
The HTML 4.0 Entities™ reference page is very handy.
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January 29, 2002
I think I have reached nerdvana. From UnBlinking:
“Greeble’s Heisenwhack Principle
What to call a self-immolating Googlewhack (one that ceases to be unique after Google spiders a site where the whack is reported)? Kudos to Ray Greeble for coining the excellent term “Heisenwhack.” He based the term loosely on the jargon entry for HeisenBUG.
Paralleling Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, clearly the observer (of a Googlewhack) alters the reality being observed (of a Googlewhack). Heisenberg himself might observe (…get it?), or perhaps Bohr would note, one benefit to web surfers: when measuring Heisenwhack Phenomena, timelines may be expressed in hours or days, rather than femtoseconds or attoseconds.
As a verb, one may ‘Heisenwhack’ a unique result by displaying it for Google to find (thereby spawning a second result). The noun ‘Heisenwhack’ refers to the page or citation that causes such dilution.
The Heisenwhack Compensator … is easy to use. To find pages that contain your word pair, while excluding other pages that mention this topic, add ‘-googlewhack’ to your query. Google will exclude pages containing that ’subtracted’ term from your results.”
January 25, 2002
I just read on the MovableType site that Ben and Mena are getting ready to release MT version 2.0, and it will include a ’send this entry’ feature similar to the one I’ve implemented on my blogs. So … since they are the experts, I’m not going to do any more development or write a tutorial or anything like that on how I did it here. I’ll just say that it was a lot of mucking around in perl cgi and javascript. Ben gave me all sorts of information and instruction, and I thank him very much.
January 25, 2002
Steve Spurrier leaves Gainesville.
January 25, 2002
If it’s possible to fall head-over-heels in love with a meme, I’ve done it.
Googlewhacking: The Search for The One
It took me a few tries. I’ll admit I sat staring at the screen for a bit. Google found thousands and thousands of what I considered to be incredibly strange juxtapositions.
- esoteric amplitude? 2,250 hits
- escalator mustard? 766 hits
- amphibian euthanasia? 680 hits
- angina astrophysics? 147 hits
- tumescence draconian? 15 hits
Until … finally …
I present you with my personal Googlewhack:
kleptomaniac ovulating! 1 hit!
[click to continue...]
January 24, 2002
A rich white man gets offended at an NFL game. I still can’t stop laughing at this one.
January 24, 2002
Doh! I tossed an airball this morning. I was listening to The Tony Kornheiser Show on ESPN radio on my way to work. Tony was asking if one of the actors from the old TV show Gunsmoke was still alive.
I remembered that one of my previous bosses, Kelly, created a site where you could bet on when “famous” personalities were going to die. I called ESPN (1-888-SAY-ESPN) and, miraculously, got on national radio with Tony K! I said I was “Dave from LA” and that he should visit deadpool.com to get his answer.
Unfortunately I was wrong. The correct URL for Kelly’s site is stiffs.com, not deadpool.com.
I had already arrived at my office so I didn’t even get to hear myself on the air, but I’m going to guess Tony ripped on me when he went to deadpool.com and found some lame Sept. 11 retribution site. Oh well.
