A curi­ous pack­age arrived, addressed to me, this week from Ama­zon. I don’t remem­ber order­ing any­thing from Amazon…

It was Zeldman’s Design­ing with Web Stan­dards — a book I already own — and Dan Cederholm’s Bul­let­proof Web Design, a book I’d been plan­ning to buy. Turns out that I’d lent my copy of Zeld­man to my friend Anton, and the book had an unfor­tu­nate acci­dent with a glass of water. The Bul­let­proof book was a present because he felt bad. Awwww.… thanks Anton.

Funny thing is, that wasn’t the first inci­dent involv­ing a copy of Zeldman’s book with my name writ­ten neatly in the inside cover. One of our HTML guys at work had bor­rowed it and Eric Meyer on CSS about a year before, and they got “dam­aged” by some of his friends. I never found out what actu­ally hap­pened there… but I got shiny new copies.

Poor Zeld­man… talk about unlucky. Bul­let­proof is great so far… will post a review when I’ve finished.