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Archive for May 2004

Warning Labels
May 13th, 2004 |

America’s justice system has a bad reputation as Americans sue each other over the slightest and stupidest things like spilling McDonald’s hot coffee in their lap. Well, gee, if you’re driving a car, don’t keep it or any other drink in your lap. What did you expect? Cold coffee? All right, this was before iced [...]
Sites Don’t Validate
May 12th, 2004 | Tags: web design

I’ve been moving the sites on the old CSS Table-less site to the new version that has no tables. I mentioned in an entry a few days ago that many failed validation simply because of the lack of doctype declaration. Heck, I found a site using CSS for positioning, yet it had the font tag [...]
Bzzy Bzzy
May 10th, 2004 | Tags: Leftovers

Been busy reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves and trying to get the sites from the old CSS design over to the new. I’ve gotten four pages of sites moved over to the new plus added many more new sites. To get to the new, add index.php to the end of the URL: http://www.meryl.net/css/index.php otherwise it [...]
Older Is Better
May 7th, 2004 | Tags: downloads, Links, software

Paul upgraded WinAmp once and went back to its older version because it was better. Sometimes the sequel is not better and we revert to the older version, but it is not always possible. OldVersion.com is a site for searching for … yeah, I think you know.
404 Spoofs
May 5th, 2004 | Tags: Links

Some fun custom 404 error page spoofs!
MLA Auto Generator
May 4th, 2004 | Tags: Links

Create bibliography (you know the list of books and magazines at the end of the paper you worked hard on to get a good grade) without having to look up every type of situation with the MLA Auto Generator. MLA is the name of the handbook for writers of research papers. I have a copy [...]
Tech’s Impact on Grammar
May 3rd, 2004 | Tags: Writing

Learned 2 talk like this yrs ago: l8r, u2, ttfn, ttyl, fwiw, btw, pita, rotfl, etc. (help for those who aren’t up to speed on SMS talk), but I never let it impact my IRL (in real life) writing. This article says such talk is taking its toll on our grammar knowledge. Apparently, some students didn’t [...]