Something Changed... Mar 6, 2006Two days ago I finished reading Redeeming The Lost by Elizabeth Kerner, and in doing so I'd like to think a chapter of my life, which began five years ago, is coming to an end. There's nothing really special about the book -…

…to: var foo = 1, bar = 2, baz = 3; This also works in the for loop context: var y = 0; for (var x = 0; x < 10; x++) { y++; // ... Do something } // is equivalent to: for (var x = 0, y = 0; x < 10; x++, y++) { // ... Do something } That neatens things up ni…

…a new web design article in the pipe. I never plan design articles, they usually happen by serendipitous inspiration while building something, as I come across something clever or particularly elegant. Then they usually write themselves in an hour or two…

…ah, it's be nice for Opera to have a cutesy mascot, and the puffin idea sounds great! Now, how about suggestions for its name...? =) Something with a cheap-pun on the Opera/opera distinction could be good. Anyone know of any opera singers/musicians that ha…

…have a little stuffed dragon sitting on top of my monitor. Despite this, Dragon Booster fell flat with me. Sure it was exciting, but something was missing that would have given that world a sense of the real. At the time I couldn't put my finger on it, but…

…'t seemed to have accomplished anything of importance! I'd had just about enough of the status quo for one year; it was time to make something happen. So at least I will remember 2009 for something, even if it's only that I redesigned my website, updated m…

…we can use the floated element to determine how high the enclosing element should be. The way is to add the next part of this hack: something for our prop to push down on. We add this with another div tag. I like to use the class "clear" for this one: <st…

…te... in your head Mar 20, 2025Like the recipe for Greek fire, memorizing an algorithm to find the weekday name from just a date was something I used to know when I was younger, but forgot due to lack of use. I used to be able to churn the numbers in my br…

…read. In the past two years, I have read thousands of pages of great short literature, but my novel count was likely less than ten. Something had to be done. So I let all three subscriptions lapse. Oddly though, F&SF was the only one of the three who actu…

…s number vandalism so insidious. A sly vandal arrives one day, long after the original editor has moved on, and changes that date to something five years before, or a few months after. Subsequent visitors to the page aren't alerted that the date was recent…