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Archive for January, 2003

Valentine’s Day

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on Fri Jan 31, 2003, 7:28 pm
in weblogs
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Ashley is already thinking about Valentine’s Day:

I love Valentine’s Day for all the wrong reasons: conversation heart candy, an abundance of pink and red everywhere, lacey lingerie in the window of Victoria’s Secret, making construction paper valentines with pornographic inserts.

Nicely put, and it’s not even February yet. Oh, and Heather has some cool little V-day postcards.

How’s that old Song Go?, Part II

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on Fri Jan 31, 2003, 5:02 pm
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Sometimes someone you don’t know says hi and says her name is meghan. And, it makes you feel strange, since you’ve been going to that very coffee house almost daily for 8 months, and you haven’t got a clue what anyone’s name is.

Snoozing Kitty

Published
on Fri Jan 31, 2003, 12:20 pm
in cats and photos
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Well, I’m having trouble coming up with anything to post on this, the final Friday of January. I so wish to thank God that the thermometer is up above freezing again. And, for this kitten named Katya. She makes all of this jobless stuff bearable.

Internet Radio

Published
on Wed Jan 29, 2003, 11:49 am
in music
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I just wanted to share indienow.com with any of you who are interested in listening to good music online. They’ve got different feeds, depending on your internet connection.

Also, I ordered the Shelby CD, after I learned from the Morning News that the new New Yorker fiction editor is married to a band member. Hey, if it’s good, it’s good.

It’s funny too, because in their about page, they describe themselves as The Who meets My Bloody Valentine… if there is anything that the classic rocker Tbone and the modern rocker myself could agree on, it would be that combination. no?

A Kick in the stomach

Published
on Tue Jan 28, 2003, 2:23 pm
in work
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Yes, so the other shoe dropped today, as I found out that I finished in second place for the BHCC job.

I kind of knew last week, when I called a woman there who was, up until then, giving me terrific signals. She acted very stand-offish, but polite on the phone, and I should have guessed what message was being conveyed. The VP for Communications, the big man, said that they went with someone who had more experience, (yet the person in the position now has no experience, design or technical, in making websites).

I really want to wring some necks, but obviously I am failing to convince people that I can do the job. Either that, or there is a glut of talent in Boston, and too few opportunities. I’ll go with option 2.

Undesign?

Published
on Mon Jan 27, 2003, 5:57 am
in design and weblogs
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This article on Lo-Fi web design, which includes an interview with Jason Kottke, is very interesting. Jason argues that information is more important to weblog writing (why I love RSS readers), than having glitzy, highly-graphical designs. Sites with 60k background images need not apply… I agree, begrudgingly… and I love trend reporting.

CSS annoyances

Published
on Mon Jan 27, 2003, 5:25 am
in design and weblogs
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These past few days, I’ve been intensely working on a weblog site for a friend… using CSS. and it’s frustrating. It’s nearly impossible to do anything advanced layout-wise with CSS. There are always browser inconsistencies to deal with.

So after screwing with that for days on end, I decided to revert to tables. That site will be ready soon. But, I had to do something affirming with CSS, so I updated this site. Not an ounce of <table> code at all. Email me bugs (especially on the macintosh / safari / mozilla side of things.)