I use Gmail regularly constantly and I’ve been bothered by it’s handling of my signature during replies. It puts your signature below the message you’re replying to, even if your setting is to compose the reply above. Well, whaddayaknow, there is a setting for this! I’d looked for it before but just found it now under Settings -> Labs: Signature Tweaks. Labs is Googles “testing ground for experimental features”. Hopefully it passes the test and becomes a regular feature! Read more »
Posted: September 5th, 2008 under Computers & Tech, Web Tips.
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Recently while coding a client’s site, I had an issue with a background image being misaligned by just one pixel. It was only happening in Safari. I tried a number of things and finally resorted to a CSS hack for Safari.
Today I found the shift also happened in Firefox 3. Doh!
Fortunately a discussion of rounding errors in Firefox got me to wondering about the size of the background image. Well, it was an odd number of pixels wide. Increasing the width of the image by one pixel fixed the bug in both FF3 and Safari. Bye-bye hack! Dunno why I didn’t think to check that before.
Posted: September 1st, 2008 under Design, Web Tips.
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I found this interview with Tim O’Reilly on collective intelligence and Web 2.0 rather fascinating. (Does that make me a total geek?) Some tidbits:
Google’s realization that links were a kind of user generated “voting” on the best site for a topic (i.e. Page Rank) and could be used to deliver better search results was arguably the real beginning of the Web 2.0 revolution.
Web 2.0 is held to an unrealistically high standard. Instead, people have to view Web 2.0 and collective intelligence in its proper context. These aren’t magic bullets that solve every problem, and collective intelligence has its downside – collective stupidity, collective cupidity, and the like.
He briefly mentions his company’s Make Magazine and Maker Faire. Sounds like a really fun science fair for grown ups adults.
Posted: August 28th, 2008 under Computers & Tech, Goofy, Fun & Cool.
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Days With My Father reminds me of why I fell in love with the web: it’s such a powerful medium for self-expression. It’s easy to forget this when most of my commissioned work has an entirely different focus.
Posted: August 13th, 2008 under Art, Life.
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Recently we discovered an HBO series at our local indie video store: Flight of the Conchords, a series born of the comedy-music duo of the same name. (They bill themselves as “Formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo”.)
The show builds on their great stage act by using their satirical songs (mostly) in musical fantasies which occur as part of their every-day life. Such as when Jemaine falls asleep at the laundromat and sings It’s Business Time. Read more »
Posted: August 13th, 2008 under Culture Consumed, Goofy, Fun & Cool.
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