September 2010
1 post
Huh.
Guess what? Switching (back) to Tumblr hasn’t made me write any more, at least when it comes to writing for myself. (Big surprise: it’s not the tools that make you write better!)
That said, I have been writing. Check out my weekly series, “Type News,” at Typedia.
July 2010
2 posts
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IE 8 my CSS!
On a recent personal project I decided to experiment with some of the pseudo-classes available in CSS 3. I was immediately smitten, especially with :last-child. The new pseudo-classes aren’t supported in any version of Internet Explorer (before version 9, now in beta), so I decided to use JavaScript to add an ie-last-child class to the appropriate HTML elements. My CSS looked something like...
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Seecas the Elephant
A story by Zora:
Once there was an elephant named Seecas. Elephant was going to see a witch. The witch lived in a little house. There were some flying birds. There were three birds flying. The elephant said to the witch, “That’s my house—can you fly to your house?” The witch flew away because it was the elephant’s house.
Now the elephant went back to the...
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Fiat
So. For a while I’d been working on a revised Django-powered system that effectively did what Tumblr does out-of-the-box, but I’d never really had the amount of focused time I’ve needed to get it working properly. (This is not an indictment of Django; it remains my preferred development platform.)
And I figured, why not just use Tumblr? I’ve had an account for over three...
June 2007
1 post
Hi, gang. Your teacher is watching!