davidgagne.net — The personal weblog of David Vincent Gagne

GI Joe t-shirts

Rad! Check out this collection of GI Joe t-shirts (and other 80s t-shirts)! How killer is that? link via Lost Pages

No Fingers!

Linda Fletcher experienced her first heartbreak of the Super Bowl on Wednesday morning when the bellhop was removing her luggage from the cab at her hotel. “They said I couldn’t take my foam finger to the game,” the Boston woman lamented. “I’ve taken it to every game this season. It’s the good luck charm that

The highest-priced tickets in baseball got pricier Wednesday when the Boston Red Sox announced a 7.4 percent overall increase for this season.

Prices for the cheapest seats — upper and lower bleachers and outfield grandstand — are unchanged from last year, but all others are rising. Infield roof box, loge and field box seats, the most expensive at Fenway Park, will increase from $55 to $60.

2024-01-21: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

sick

I have a cold. bah.

CSS Resource

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

New Languages

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

Forum

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.

HTML Reference

The HTML 4.0 Entities™ reference page is very handy. You† can® do° all¶ kindsº of£ nifty€ thingsŸ withÖ it¿.

Nanotech

The minuscule size of most nanotubes – hollow cylinders of carbon measuring only a few billionths of a meter wide – boggles the mind. Even more astounding may be that scientists can conceivably nestle these straws inside one another like Matryoshka dolls, with the inner set of tubes sliding in and out a billion times

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.