Entries from July 2001 ↓

Dig Caterina‘s guest blogger. It’s funny how some people’s writing styles (and subjects chosen) are so distinctive. Not everyone has that distinctive a ‘voice’. At least I’m pretty sure it’s who I think it is.

PS: excuse the gratuitous use of the term “dig” above. I saw Easy Rider over the weekend. Did you notice Toni Basil is in it? Yes, Toni Basil of “Hey Mickey” fame, and the progenitor of Paula Abdul, was in Easy Rider. Dig that.

their Technical Note format, and altough it’s really dry information of a technical nature, in its own way it’s quite beautiful. A subdued but good use of fonts, good in-file linking that’s well distinguished from the rest of the page, a good executive summary at the top, the date of publication/update is prominently displayed, and they use shading and an indent to very clearly highlight code. And there’s a PDF equivalent available at the bottom, cause no matter how nice it looks online, a PDF will print better. Form following function, to ape the famous old line, but not devoid of form as many techies assume is appropriate for other techies.

paragraph on the freshly-redesigned and repurposed YULblog means that I’m going to see Ed, Aaron, and Toasty on Wednesday, if not others in addition. Cool.

Lawrence Lessig all day. Including, most recently, Jail Time in the Digital Age, an Op-Ed in the New York Times. A guy like Lessig almost makes me want to pack it all in and go to law school.

, and they don’t seem to like the Planet of the Apes. Don’t listen to the reviewers! It’s the ape-iest movie of the year. Tim Roth should definitely get the Oscar for Best Ape in a Leading Role (in this I agree with Blork).

that I feel like this quite often these days. Not being a true coding techie, it takes me a while sometimes.