Archive for June, 2004
WordPress Meetup
Thursday, June 17th, 2004
International WordPress Meetup Day is Saturday, June 26, 2004, at 4 PM. For Boston WordPress users, I suggest somewhere along Newbury Street, as to suckle off of the Newbury Open Net.
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Thursday, June 17th, 2004Wired News: DMCA Foes Find Allies in House
Not to beat the issue to death, but the DMCA needs to die. Call your Representatives.
eHow: How to Celebrate Bunker Hill Day
Another regional holiday that I was totally unaware of until its day of celebration.
Web Cam
Thursday, June 17th, 2004
Bedtime
Thursday, June 17th, 2004I just took an all natural shower courtesy of the Burt’s Bees Starter Kit I bought yesterday at Trader Joe’s. Now I’m ready to sleep in my favorite unnatural fabric, lycra. ::love::
FOXNews.com Redesign
Wednesday, June 16th, 2004Everyone agrees. The new FOXNews.com redesign is the worst thing to launch since MSNBC.
Here’s why:
- The index page alone is ~900 lines long, weighing in at over 45 KB just in code!
- Layout priority is placed on advertisements, not news content, and even the content is incorrectly prioritized. I should not have to scroll through an iframe or click on JavaScript hierarchal menu to access top stories. Election and market headlines should come before entertainment news. Video segment access should come before an empty, non-informative form to access local weather. (If the site was really smart, it would find the geographical location of my IP block and display the weather for that city. The IP block owner is not always in one’s city, but something is better than an empty form.)
- Flash content should always offer more function than pretty animation. Instead of animating the question of, “What’s on O’Reilly tonight?” the Flash content would be more useful if it displayed the actual topics on The O’Reilly Factor that evening.
- At 1024×768 resolution, story content pages only display the actual story on 50% of the screen. The other half is dedicated to a category sidebar, advertisements, and the annoying JavaScript hierarchical video access column. Additionally, the top portion of the story area is further reduced with the story’s sidebar. Less than 25% of the screen is dedicated to the story.
- CSS is grossly misused and the site does not validate. One purpose of CSS is to create reusable visual styles. Repeatedly using <div style=”blah blah blah”> is no better than using <font>.
Curiously Jeremiah
Friday, June 11th, 2004Welcome to the first release of Curiously Jeremiah. Much of my blog is about my life: the events, people, and errata that makes existence notable. I am blessed (and sometimes plagued) by an intense curiosity about all aspects of the world. With every occasional scenery change, I evermore realize how much knowledge of self I have yet to obtain. Curiously Jeremiah encompasses this exploration through evolving environments and personal growth.
New features: My blog now supports trackbacks and user registration for comments.
Design info: Curiously Jeremiah is XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant using a 100% CSS layout. This adherence to technical standards breaks compatibility with Internet Explorer and I could not care less. Microsoft only responds to reasonable requests through radical action. In my case, I willingly choose to alienate Internet Explorer users. Development priority was placed upon the data transfer from Movable Type to WordPress, thus the visual design is only 25% complete. Significant visual revisions are already in re-production.
Multicultural Experience
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
Eat Mexican food in an American restaurant located in Chinatown.
