Daikon Odori

I kid you not :The Raddish Dance

More backyard flowers

Japanese Peony, after tennis before the rain

Tim Bray ongoing

Tim (can I call you that?) has a response (Browsers and CSS, Again)to his early Not Rocket Science essay. Several quick observations :

1) Tim's frustration with how poorly IE implements the CSS spec's is understandable.

"The problem isn't that CSS is too hard. The problem isn't browser incompatibilities in general. The problem is specifically that Microsoft Internet Explorer is a mouldering, out-of-date, amateurish, out-of-date pile of dung. Did I say it's out-of-date? As in past its sell-by, seen better days, mutton dressed as lamb, superannuated, time-worn. It's so, like, you know, so twentieth-century."

The lack of progress with IE borders on criminal, and there doesn't seem to be any hint comming out of MS that that will change that. If anything the news that IE SP1 will be the last standalone version confirms the gloomy view. I wish more and more that the anti-trust had taken the browser from the rest of MS.


2) Browser still matter and the lack of good standard implementation will hinder how the internet is used in public and within companies. Thin clients have great advantages. Although richer pugs have promise (data driven Flash apps, Xforms or .net), we need a working standard based thin client platform or accept the costs of non-innovation like the Fatal html bug. Again from Tim Bray :

"They Just Don't Get It. Every ambitious web designer in the world is investing their customers' and employers' money in arcane, complexified, kludged-up hacks to work around IE's broken box model and pixel-font weirdness and sub-one-em microscopism. Failing that, they're doing like me and sizing in pixels, with adverse effects on accessibility."

3) On a more personal note :Even with all the documenting and proposal writing I've been doing over the last little while, I've got a long way to improve (I'm not even talking about spelling!). Tim's essay (both the technological and personal) are a pleasure to read. I want this to be more than a list of links. I've going to keep trying, those who know me know I'm prone to tangents, but I'll try it keep things here (at least) polished, focused and powerful. (I hear my inner Yoda saying : Do not Try, Do! ...Yes, Master Yoda)


4)Following the Technoratia link I stumbbled apoun Gimle. Great Layout!! another list to the hoard.

Project Management checklists and templates

Did you ever play with a magnifying glass and an ant hill?

Useful links and examples about CSS

Simon Willison's Weblog :CSS ain't Rocket Science

A List Apart on taming lists with css

CSS Zen Garden, demo of the power of CSS

Eric Meyer's CSS design

Stop Design blog

Table-less design

Let the torture begin...

Husband's and Son's everywhere vindicated

Video games more than just fun. Excuse while I improve my visual and motor skills, while conducting User Interface testing, Dear...

Geeks Ahoy

Rocky Oliver,big time Lotus Notes Pointy Head at a (dead) company call Synergetics, and sales force automation product (Prevail), has started up a Blog called LotusGeek. Welcome Rocky!

Pictures at Eleven!

Bought a new toy serious business tool, Palm Zire 71, the one with the built in camera (low-res). Here's a view of our backyard flowers (larger image if you "show picture").

the things you find on the net

browsing for something else I can across this (something I know about) and a familar name from before (and during) boom blow up

More unwanted advise, for free!

12 Recommendations for the New CS Graduate. also sound words for those of us employed, and under-employed.

new and practical phrases for me to learn

How to swear, insult, cuss and curse in Cantonese!. Many of which I don't know.

More CSS buttons

The best way to do buttons! No graphic guys need apply for simple (and not so simple) buttons Link

PS2 Supercomputer

100 PS2 machines (30 of which are in reserve) ranked plugged together with a high-speed Hewlett-Packard network switch, ~ $50K price, capable of a half trillion operations a second! Full Story Here.

2 thoughs : Does it play Doom/Quake? (Not that it would help me from getting fragged). And : how soon till Google runs with it?

What's a Blog, Daddy?

You wash your month out now young lady!!! If that's not your first reaction, and maybe if it is, here's Deep thinking about weblogs, attempts to answers the question : What are weblogs? What's the big deal? Why should we pay attention?

Notes on Building Attractive Web Pages

Building Attractive Web Pages
Most of this I've seen before but I'll do a once over for anything new. lots of good stuff

Five Rules for new Grads, and the rest of Us

#1. Don't think about your future, especially right now.

#2. Don't buy Furniture, or anything else you'll regret.

#3. Don't let yourself be intimidated by professionals or their uniforms.

#4: If you're going to fail, fail big. If you don't, you're never going to make a difference. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

#5: Don't overuse the word "love."

from Commencement address of Jerry Zucker via Krzysztof Kowalczyk's Weblog

Lastest Find

Compiere, a J2EE-based ERP/CRM solution... one of the top 10 most active projects on the open source development Web site SourceForge. via Infoworld