links for 2010-02-24
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Converts your styles to inline ones for email purposes. Neato.
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Not sure if you'll be able to see this furm discussion unless you're already a ravelry member, but it's a real hoot – someone wants a pattern to knit a life-size giraffe. I am so on board with this.
links for 2010-02-20
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Designing with Progressive Enhancement is a practical guide that both explains the principles and benefits of progressive enhancement, and explores detailed examples to teach you how, where, and when to implement specific coding and scripting approaches that embody broadly accessible development practices.
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Modernizr is a small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while still maintaining a fine level of control over older browsers that may not yet support these new technologies.
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FOUC=Flash of unstyled content.
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Something I really want to get back to to figure out but I suspect I won't have time.
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I really didn't realize her political background and influence. Hmmm. Interesting reset.
links for 2010-02-11
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The prime purpose of the new and unimproved scoring system was to better quantify the various elements in a program — required jumps and spins — so that the famously nefarious judges would have less latitude to cheat. Alas, this created a scoring system so arcane, it makes computing the Standard & Poor's index child's play. Moreover, by emphasizing compulsory obligations, the new system diminished the emphasis on artistry.
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Bankers deserve their bonuses? Are you crazy? They don't deserve their JOBS. And frankly, I still think there are a dozen of them that need to be set on fire in the middle of Wall Street. You don't fuck up worse than these guys fucked up – and they did it out of sheer greed. There are people homeless, starving and on the street because of the criminal actions of these greedy assholes. Fuck them and their bonuses.
links for 2010-02-02
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Awesome.
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Idaho Baptist group tried to smuggle 33 kids out of Haiti through the Dominican Republic. Some of the children knew their parents were alive, and just hadn't been reunited with them yet.
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Our local Indiana Family Institute tried to introduce legislation like this back in the early 1990s (they disavow all knowledge of it now – but I have copies of the bill.) Not surprised that its still on their agenda, but I am surprised they're talking openly about it.
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This one of my favorite counter-protests to the WBC – silly signs that make about as much sense as theirs. Apparently it was effective – they called off another protest later than evening.
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sadly, I don't know how to crochet yet.
links for 2010-01-21
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What follows is a brief discussion of Audre Lorde's often-quoted statement,
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Copenhagen installs food rests for cyclists stopped at lights. That is damned cool. "Hey, cyclist! Rest your foot here… and thank you for cycling in the city."
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Braver than I, these people are. I don't think either Stephanie or I would be good at purging each other's books.
So NOW they create a sandbox template!
After I pretty much got everything in place, Movable Type comes out with a plugin and set of sandbox templates — similar to what WordPress has — that allows you to install a really basic default set of templates and then create your own design on top of the template elements — similar to what I was wishing for in this post the other day.
That’s actually really funny. I’m not going to rework everything yet again right now, but good that they’ve done one. I’ll definitely go that route in the future when undertaking a redesign. And refining all my content at this point will help immensely with future design undertakings.
Movable Type 4.2 upgrade breaks current customer sites?
Gee, should I be surprised at this news? Here’s the email I received from my web host when I asked them to upgrade my to 4.2:
Movable Type 4.2 is more strict than Movable Type 4.1 when it comes to custom designed blog templates. We’ve seen some cases when upgrading from version 4.1 to version 4.2 stopped the blog from rebuilding, or when some plugins had to be disabled or upgraded.
If you have a custom blog design, or use custom plugins, I would proceed with caution simply because upgrading might cause your blog to stop working.
If you have a business/company blog, the recommended course of action is to setup a development environment on your hosting account with a duplicate copy of your Movable Type 4.1 blog. Then upgrade that development environment to Movable Type 4.2 and rebuild your blog. Then make a couple of test posts. If it works – Great! You can now safely upgrade your live environment. On the other hand if your blog doesn’t rebuild – it’s time to re-check your templates to make them Movable Type 4.2 friendly.
Right. Like I have the money or time to maintain a development environment for my personal blog.
Sigh – it’s par for the course; I believed them when they said they were going to do better. This is not better, guys. So upgrading is going to wait until I have vacation time to fuck around with my design templates. Lovely.
SXSWi 2008 post game analysis
I made it home from Austin last night rather late and went to work this morning. Unlike the trip out, the flight home was rather uneventful. Thank goodness. We didn’t get our luggage until late Saturday night, so I basically had two nights without my CPAP machine, which the Airlines had told me to pack in my checked luggage, then tried to yell at me about putting in my checked luggage when we were leaving Dallas.
The two days without it really screwed me up. The whole trip was rather chaotic, actually, and frustrating, but I think I got some good information in all. I have half an overview written of panels I liked and what I thought was interesting; I’ll work on that more tomorrow. Tonight, I’m just trying to settle in and relax.