Retro Collection Note Cards from Closerie Publishing. I have issues finding good cards. I guess it's because I haven't in the past looked for cards before I needed one, oh and I'm a bit of a card snob. Anyway this birthday card ought to get one laid, yes? Too bad they don't sell them online, gotta go to Whole Foods.

Ugly first pass at the Intersmash design challenge. We'll see if my lazy, errr, busy ass finds the time to fix the many problems (esthetic and structural)

Fast rollovers, no preload needed - gotta try this for my checkboxes in my portfolio. The example here is crap in IE, but then again what isn't?? Perhaps a smaller image will help.

Intersmash Design Challenge - this one will bug me until i figure it out, or get distracted and forget. Hopefully this post will remind me, cause we all know i'm just talking to myself because my bookmarks are a mess and stuff like this doesn't merit a spot on my links page.

LAPL Catalog - on a web theory book binge, but technical books are so expensive. Los Angeles Public Library system to the rescue. I can get New Riders and other such books from 2002, and be on the waiting list for the 2003 books that they are in the process of aquiring.

Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice Video. If you haven't seen Christopher Walken dance and want to see the man that walks into rooms and scares little children cut loose you gotta see this.

The Sun Report: Pocket PC Sans Style gotta read this and research further before worrying about pocket pc.

Portfolio home page in Pocket PC emulator - looks like i need to use a varient of the FIR image replacement method if I want to work in various half-assed medium such as this.

some observations on the failures of the IE5.5 box model as pertaining to my new Resume page. Given that the box model looks like this: [margin[padding[border[content]border]padding]margin] when absolutely positioning a box the top: left: is the outside of the [border. Also, while a background-image may appear within the block's padding, the background-color does not, leading me to use a 42px border. A simplified test case may prove something else to be at fault, but since my test box is still down I'll not be driving to the library again.

Personality Test (Myers-Briggs and Keirsey) - I'm IxTG (x being 50/50 N vrs S). That is, if you think these things mean a damn thing.

given the Bonsai photographs that are available nic's bonsai club project is looking more and more appealing. On black backgrounds too so they'll be easy to mask!

nic has a new ride (temporary link, don't expect it to necessarily be there), i've got a new DOM explorer, and DOM scripting kicks ass for enhancing the client side calculations for online timesheets. Knee deep in Phillip Kerman's latest book, and almost done with my updated portfolio in pure symantic HTML and CSS. One of these days I'll find a new job too.

Actually de-lurked and commented on a discussion the other day: mezzoblue  §  Digital Web Article Posted my comments are clear enough to be read outside of the context of the very long discussion, but the article they are about does need to be read: In Defense of Fahrner Image Replacement

The motivation behind the afore mentioned re-code; I got let go from my job. Severe cut-backs globaly by Baxter International. I've always said that anything that comes down from corporate is bad, and they've only proven me right yet again. So I am very busy, but not getting paid except for unemployment. With any luck the team will get some more projects and be able to hire me back. Or I might find someplace else that I'd like to work.

DivineNTD.com - Nils T. Devine's front end development portfolio I am re-coding my job seeking site with pure symantic HTML and CSS. Also injecting a little bit of color for warmth, but nothing crazy like this. This site will be next up for a behind-the-scenes re-code, though I might change some things about the design as well.