The coolest part of having a website is seeing that people I’ve never met, from places I’ve never been, have looked at something I’ve done. For the last day of the year, I just want to list the places that have sent traffic to this website. I think this is really exciting, and really interesting. [...]
These are the posts from December 2007
December 30, 2007
Posted by Eddie
Random Thoughts
1) The idea of beautiful programming books representing the connection between art and programming is an interesting one. I think that there is an “art” to programming, but I don’t think there is really a direct connection. As a musician, I have a very formal vision of an “artist”, and knowing many programmers, [...]
December 28, 2007
Posted by Eddie
Cat’s out of the bag
Raluca Bucur has found me!
December 19, 2007
Posted by Eddie
Microsoft claims IE8 passes Acid2?
Microsoft is claiming that a working version of IE8 is showing the smiley, and has passed the Acid2 test. Even if Microsoft is lying, this means that at the very least, someone there is using a browser that can pass!
[that, or they stole the screenshot from some place!]
December 18, 2007
Posted by Eddie
Another design tweak
As you might have noticed, I’ve been a bit pre-occupied recently. And likely will be so in the future. So a design for this site has once again been placed on the back burner. I am good for a tweak-ing, however.
Looks fine in Firefox 2 for mac/pc. Opera, has a small [...]
Posted by Eddie
Editing Live
Yes, if you happen to see some weird things going on, I am tweaking the CSS on the site. Live. See me work, or become annoyed and return when I’m finished.
December 17, 2007
Posted by Eddie
Jean Edward Welker
Washington Post – Obituaries
Friday, December 14, 2007; Page B07
Jean Edward Welker – NASA Physicist
Jean Edward Welker, 72, who spent 50 years as a physicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, died Dec. 5 of heart disease at Washington Hospital Center. He lived in Laurel.
Mr. Welker was a specialist in examining climate patterns in [...]
December 5, 2007
Posted by Eddie
Minor distractions
In an effort to keep my mind occupied elsewhere, here are a couple of distractions to share.
The Magical Minimalism of Microformat – The New York Times tipping their hat to Microformats
Internet Explorer 8 – Please don’t be lying, please don’t be lying, please don’t be lying…
Email Standards Project – Please turn out to [...]
