Tuesday, February 5, 2002

Dan Bricklin writes (get a better permanent URL strategy going! Anchors are your friends...) about the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology. Hey, that's what I want to do. Also in the "not quite a weblog" category is Dan Gillmor's "new" site. If you have to click to get new content, and scroll through recent content, it ain't a Weblog. Just a collection of articles. The font size is tiny as you can guess the Web "developers" didn't bother to test on a Mac, or read any of the many books and articles on the subject. Oh, and look in the source: if (b=="Netscape") this.b="ns"; else if ((b=="Opera") || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")>0)) this.b = "opera"; else if (b=="Microsoft Internet Explorer") this.b="ie"; // I have disabled the following line, but something similar might be useful later, // but launching a popup window is more polite than this alert. //if (!b) alert('Unidentified browser./nThis browser is not supported,'); Damn right saying "unidentified browser" is wrong. Heard of web standards? Make it work everywhere, make it look pretty with CSS, SVG, Flash, whatever, where you can. And of course, the page content is the usual spacer GIF/table background color garbage. That's a redesign, folks. 11:57:40 PM | reply [] The USPS has mail truck parts on eBay too. Interesting to see what breaks on the things. (via dangerousmeta) 8:02:51 PM | reply [] Aha, the solution to my stylesheet issues with Radio. I wonder if the aggregation is per-paragraph or per-post. (Does anyone subscribe to this weblog? If it's per-post, I need to make shorter posts. 7:02:59 PM | reply [] Today was chaos and I didn't get much work done. Those folks in the U of I Registration building have things cushy, they all had Aeron chairs and beautifully laid out offices. And it took this one guy about 5 minutes to do my late registration. It went something like this. Look at my forms, type for a while. Wander off to another office to retrieve a printout. Type for a while longer. Consult one binder of fees. Put that away. Consult another binder. Answer the phone. Print out two copies of my fee schedule, on the printer on his desk. Type some more. Tell me to go off somewhere else to pay my money. About 10 minutes elapsed total, two computers, two printers, binders, much clicking and typing. That includes my interaction with the (very nice) receptionist and my wait for the guy. Something is definitely wrong there. Going to help Chris Lattner and his girlfriend/roommates move a sofa tonight, because I'm the guy with the pickup truck. Joy. Patrick Beard has a weblog now. Didn't know he played the saxophone. Maybe there's a Steve Zellers connection from when Patrick worked at Apple? Norbert Heger (LaunchBar author) got back to me about the Finder selection thing, it's working, he likes it, I knew there were some bugs in the error handling which I'll deal with tomorrow night, I hope. 6:55:11 PM | reply []