I’m working on a Web site for First Night of Maplewood/South Orange. And I’m not especially happy with it. I’m finding new and exciting sIFR bugs for which I need to track down some solutions, particularly in how links don’t work in Safari. Probably it would be best to just go with graphics for the [...]
Toy cemeteries, and other stupid photoshop tricks.
Some-time commenter Andy did some of this on the Literary Cafe blog, and I thought it looked way cool. Before-and-after after the jump.
Apologies for the blog being down Saturday. This is the second time in as many weeks that my totally useless hosting service has allowed a service to crash and stay crashed. In the process, I lost one short and one long post I’d written, plus a few comments.
I’m really livid about this. I noticed [...]
We’ve been having some problems at our hosting service, where the database server has been down for the past 24 hours or so. Sorry about that, but it’s good to be back on-line again. I should have some new material before long, so please check back!
Monday I updated The Company’s Movable Type blog platform to the latest (4.1 to 4.2). Problems galore in the installation, which had to be done manually, with permissions. It took a solid half hour. Then the real problems hit: missing redirects, broken search. We’re still hammering out the kinks.
Tonight I updated my WordPress blog [...]
True, Google Earth is old news. But it’s fun to explore a little and find some unusual sights (sites?), beyond the usual Pyramids and Taj Mahal kinds of landmarks.
Who are these people, and what are they doing in my blog posts?
Well that may be overstating things a bit, but now that I’ve got your attention take a look at the Calais Viewer. Paste some text into the entry field and submit it, and it parses it for the specific meaning using natural language processing.
My friend Eric Hoffer was a guest speaker at the Web [...]
Yesterday I was out at Bucknell University in Lewisburg for the Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference. It was a terrific event, a full day of concurrent sessions on a lot of topics surrounding the digitization, archiving and presentation of archival materials. It was especially relevant because some of the key DSpace people were there, and it’s an application I’ve been trying to get my arms around for a few months now. But this isn’t about the technical stuff, let’s move right along to the travelogue…
37 Signals, a developer of web-based groupware, is officially phasing out support of IE6 in its next generation of development. The product of theirs I’m most familiar with is Basecamp, a project-management application which is used in a couple of places I’ve worked.
Unlike the XP-to-Vista migration, IE6 to IE7 is pretty easy across both [...]
Here’s another interesting Googlemaps mash-up, rottenneighbor.com. Useful information no doubt; but also no doubt than somewhere sometime it’s going to lead to something ugly. Enter in an address or zip code and you’ll see a map of the neighborhood with little red, yellow or green (mostly red) Monopoly-style houses with comments about what makes that [...]
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