Wednesday, April 17, 2002

I started the day with Homer Might as well end the day with this - Jake: "Ole and Lena were excited to get a new cellular phone.."  [Scripting News] Tomorrow: I'm going to learn how to wrap the text of a post properly around a graphic. Russ has something on this and Howard Hansen posted a comment about it as well. I know it's simple stuff, but this HTML stuff is still not immediately obvious to me. I think the difficulty stems from never having had to use a text processor prior to WYSIWYG word processors. Or, stupidity and density could be factors. 8:14:51 PM     Comments[]

20 years old with money 20-year-old jackpot winner: 'I'm not going to work' [USA Today : Front Page] 8:01:50 PM     Comments[]

What Gerstner left behind... is a much healthier company than he found when he arrived! This came as no surprise weeks ago, and it wasn't a surprise today! IBM POSTED A 32% DROP in first-quarter profit, blaming spending deferments by customers across all product categories. The results matched Big Blue's preannouncement earlier this month. [Wall Street Journal] 7:55:29 PM     Comments[]

Too cool for school! Interested in Segway? Check out Paul Nakada's Segway weblog.  [Scripting News] And Paul replies with, "Links are the weblog equivalent of venture capital, except, without the strings. We just got funding for this blog today!" Check out the details! 7:51:31 PM     Comments[]

Alwin Hawkins is this morning's hero! Working solely by email, he talked me through something I didn't even know existed. I edited a macro. At least that's what I think I did. See the opml coffee cup over in the left border of my site? I had to edit a macro to be able to use this coffee cup in lieu of the one that was the default. I had no idea that I had access to macros. When the instructions said, "Add a call to <%radio.outliner.macros.coffeeMug ()%>, as shown in this screen shot.' I thought that was all I could do. I'm not sure why there's a border around it, nor am I sure why the graphic that's part of the big blue button at the top is very slightly distorted, but I'm learning! That's what I'm wanting. Thanks Alwin - many thanks! Hey, he's got another site? 9:43:16 AM     Comments[]

Hysterical Where does he come up with this stuff? Better yet...how does a page like that get created? Me thinks there's more to it than the html I've been staring at! 8:51:49 AM     Comments[]

Thomas A. Edison. "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." [Quotes of the Day] Thomas must have had trouble with his OPML Coffee Mug and categories and Google Boxes and pasting images and a search feature and his News Aggregator. 7:18:57 AM     Comments[]

Transform? There's a difference in transforming journalism and providing a new medium for journalism. Providing a medium which permits more people to become journalists doesn't necessarily transform the craft which is journalism. It's the World Wide Blog. The personal homepages in the long-ago days of yore have evolved into sophisticated weblogs that, some say, will transform the world of journalism. By Andrew Sullivan of Wired magazine. [Wired News] 6:59:41 AM     Comments[]

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