Archive for April 2008

• Heyyyy I finished my CSS book! Well, except for the appendix. I’m working on that. Never let it be said blah blah blah… #

I found this bookmark in an old book I bought in the early 90s when I lived in New York. So funny. I’m using it now for the CSS book I’m reading… he’s definitely encouraging me to BE COOL and keep at it. I’m 3/4 of the way through now! That’s about the farthest I’ve ever gotten in any computer book. I’m learning so much so fast, and with this dude’s help I’m determined to make it to the end!

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• Some spammer is using my e-mail addy as their ‘from’ and ‘reply-to’. Getting shitloads of bounced undeliverables from all over the world. #
• My browser cache is going haywire. The Amazon Kindle page says Kindles are *in stock*…!! I gotta reboot. #

• Barry Phipps’ cool photo of the Spire in Berwyn IL. Here’s another one.

My pal Jenn Frank just blogged this little video she took of the Axiotron Modbook at Macworld 2008…

• Collapsing margins and broken box models suck a capuchin monkey’s musty ass with Hoisen sauce! #

• Somebody needs to start a site like whocalled.us but for Twitter. So you can check up on mysterious follower-bots. #

Awhile back I started thinking I ought to sharpen my skills in web design. At first I thought I should learn PHP, so I started a book on that, but abandoned it when I realized I really needed to backtrack a bit. So I started one on Javascript and guess what, I abandoned that one too for being just an eensy bit over my head. I knew I had to shore up my knowledge of HTML and CSS, which sucks because that’s supposedly what I know best! I’ve been using HTML for frickin’ 15 years but I’m self-taught, and only ever really learned what I had to.

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• Ran up against a bad bug in the WP 2.5 plugin auto-updater. It deleted a plugin, then installed & activated another one I’d never heard of. #
• Comment on “Customizable Comment Listings v2.0″:

  For some mysterious reason the 2.5 plugin auto-updater deleted this plugin for me, then installed and activated a copy of “Hide or Cut Post Text” instead. I had to install CCL 2 by hand.

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• DUH… when one works on a site with a white background, one might wanna set one’s browser default background to something other than white. #

• Yay, I got paid for the work I did. What a concept. #
• The new Thin Man album’s out! I did backups on 2 songs. The last song’s the killer, even though I’m not on it. ;-) http://tinyurl.com/5go793 #
• Boston: Don’t Look Back

The Thin Man: Spectres
©2008 Thin Man
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I sang backups on “The Last Dance” and “Don’t Look Back”