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Tried googling the expression “michael arrington is destroying america”  - and my post was the first listed result. I suppose it is good news for Mr. Arrington, per my position on the very long tail

But really, the tools - CSS - are ridiculous. There is a lot of power there, but if the metaphor for a web page is - wait for it - a page, why is layout so difficult and counter-intuitive? CSS is complicated enough that the response on graphics sites is “the problem is that amateurs want […]

And another wrestling match with CSS. So it will look messed up for a few days. Will get to understand this forsaken-by-all-that-is-holy technology eventually. Maybe in time for the CSS tables to work in IE?

My posts are usually quickies, even when I try for deeper thoughts. So I don’t give them the grammar and spelling checks I should - I see a number of errors in my recent posts, but I find myself not caring, because they don’t detract from the “notes to self” value. If I become more […]

And we’re back to the old look. Now I have set up a separate theme to be my “sandbox” for exploring these design issues.

As we work with UI ideas, am messing with the blog to see how various combinations work. Hope to have it better on the other side, but this is the way it is for the moment. RSS should be unaffected - this is all about web UI.

At a recent meeting, a fellow from a potential partner firm mentioned that they had seen my “blog.” (I hate that word, but if the shoe fits…) The readership is so small, and the link love is so low, that I hadn’t much considered that I would have a readership at this stage. But google finds […]

This journal is primarily “notes to self” with some kept private, but most left open in case they are useful to others as well.
I bring this up because I don’t want anyone to think that I am pontificating advice from the vantage of expertise. I don’t pretend to have all the answers, and I have […]

I’m writing at the edge of my knowledge - and sometimes over it. I was called out in my prior post for misattributing the origin of bookmarklets.
Then again, that’s what a talking head does, right? And blogs are quick, top-of-head pontifications. Deep research they’re not - or at least, this isn’t. There’s value in that, […]