Posts from April 2002

The Birds

The Birds (narration) – Harry Nilsson

Movable Type Modifications

Two Tricks from the MT Support Forum: How to Randomly Generate Entries How to Create a Printer-Friendly Template Of course if you are using CSS to its fullest, you can create printer-friendly pages by simply changing stylesheets. There is a tutorial at Evolt that explains how.

Continental United States

Y’know what bugs me sometimes? Why isn’t Alaska considered part of “the continental United States”? Hawai’i I can understand – floating off by itself over there. But Alaska’s all connected and everything. It *is* on the same continent. I wonder if Alaskans ever fret over that.

High-Pass Filter

Write better web pages, free design from content, and resolve CSS browser-compatibility issues with Tantek’s High Pass Filter!

Build Cathedral

I forgot that the reason you get “paid” to do “jobs” is because it’s not something you’d leap up out of bed in the morning raring to do, without the carrot of filthy lucre leading you on … “Real work” for me is something you just do as a consequence of being who you are

Gum Disposal System

GumPals are circular, 3″ dry waxed tissues, made specifically for the disposal of chewing gum. The tissues come in 4 different dispenser models, and can be purchased in a variety of combinations. Refillable dispensers come with a supply of approximately 200 tissue refills. link via 50 cups

Life Line

Life Line – Harry Nilsson

“You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds without a religious feeling of his own.”

Albert Einstein

Wander-Lust

I’m really digging wander-lust.com. The design is groovy, the spider is spidery, and the links are extra juicy. I’ve found some terrific sites there and I really like the way their syndication operates. Check ’em out.

MovableType Tips

[The girlie matters] has a cool collection of MovableType tips and tricks. Sadly, she is another blogger that for some reason doesn’t ping weblogs.com when she updates. I wish *everyone* with a blog would ping … it would make using blogTracker so much simpler …

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.