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Monthly Archives: April 2005
a picture is worth a thousand words
nobody’s sure what to do about this “shitty” situation: Legal experts say there is no law against using feces as a flag stand and the federal legal experts say there is no law against using feces as a flag stand and the federal constitution is vague on the issue.
real world (X)HTML
Having been developing mostly in a bubble for a few year, I forgot that some people still use Internet Explorer for Windows. (Sheesh, get Firefox already.) Turns out (thanks, Tantek!) that IE6 doesn’t support XHTML. That’s not usually too much of a problem, unless you try and make a previously non-empty tag, like <script> empty. […]
(google whoring)
why, y’all should play at the South Muskoka Curling & Golf Club.
some lessons on usability
after i launched my house concerts site, i sent out emails with customized RSVP links to everyone. the next day, i got a bug report that RSVPing “no” wasn’t working. well, it was — sort of. the problem was that even if you clicked “no,” you were still expected to enter the number of seats […]
cingular sucking
teli gets shitty customer service from cingular.
house concerts web site
i spent a day and change putting together a web site for my house concert series. it’s pretty spiffy, if i do say so myself. among the reasons why: valid XHTML and CSS RSS and iCal feeds clean interface nice URLs (REST, perhaps?) creative commons-licensed
date sorting code
i was making a birthday-tracking application, and wanted to be able to do year-insensitive date sorts. i couldn’t find what I was looking for, so I wrote this: int personSortByBirthday (NSCalendarDate *d1, NSCalendarDate *d2, void *context) { int day1 = [d1 dayOfMonth]; int day2 = [d2 dayOfMonth]; int month1 = [d1 monthOfYear]; int month2 = […]
Flickr Related Tag Browser
Flickr Related Tag Browser. go.
canon lens guide
Adam Tow of COBA posted a good list of Canon lenses and notes Patrick Murphy’s comprehensive list and database. for my nikon, i have a 50mm/f1.8, a 17-70/f4.5-5.5 and a sigma 70-300/f4-5.6. since i do a lot of concerts, what i really want is a 20-100/f 1.4. but i can’t imagine such a thing existing […]