Be inspired by the world’s leading web standards gurus. How’s that for an opening sentence? It’s from the Web Essentials 04 conference, announced on the Web Standards Group mailing list yesterday. Yes folks, Dave Shea, Douglas Bowman and Joe Clark, … Continue reading
Year: 2004
Color Scheming
I really suck at picking colors, and I have hideous taste – this blog isn’t the only thing of mine that’s lime green and orange. But I keep trying anyway… with this huge list of color scheming tools: Eric Meyer’s … Continue reading
Damn, I missed it
I saw a post that there was a “macrochat” with Ben Forta and other CF peoples this morning, 6am EST, which would mean 4am local Perth time. I wasn’t going to get up because I got up for the worldwide … Continue reading
Son of Suckerfish
This is just sweet. Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb’s original Suckerfish DropDown menus were pretty awesome. But now they’re even better. The new version has support for multiple levels, and even less JavaScript, if you can believe that. It terrifies … Continue reading
A fascination with forbidden locations
I wrote previously about StumbleUpon, right? I’m still loving it. The most interesting site I came across this week is Infiltration, which bills itself as a “zine about going places you’re not supposed to go”. They have all sorts of … Continue reading
Phil Greenspun on Java
Java is the SUV of programming tools is the title of a great post by MIT’s Philip Greenspun. I love the analogy: But the programmers and managers using Java will feel good about themselves because they are using a tool … Continue reading
Wasting Time on the Internet
Quite obviously, wasting time is all that anyone ever does on the internet anyway, but now it’s gotten much much easier with StumbleUpon. It’s a toolbar – versions for IE and Gecko – that randomly pulls up sites that might … Continue reading







