If you think things look odd here today, it’s because I’ve disabled my blog’s styling for “CSS Naked Day.” The idea is to emphasize that styling on the web–particularly, that done with CSS, or “cascading style sheets”–should be separate from the structure, or markup. In part, one should separate style from content because a number […]
Category Archives: Computers
Death of WiFi?
March 17, 2008 – 9:20 am
An Ericsson executive recently predicted that WiFi’s time has passed: “In Austria, they are saying that mobile broadband will pass fixed broadband this year. It’s already growing faster, and in Sweden, the most popular phone is a USB modem,” said Bergendahl, who was the keynote speaker at the European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference […]
Internet Explorer 7 Float Bug
July 25, 2007 – 12:49 am
Today while developing a WordPress theme for a client, I ran into a vexing Internet Explorer 7 bug. Anyone who’s done any website design is familiar with Internet Explorer 6 (or earlier) wreaking havoc with standards-compliant work that looks good in, say, Firefox. But thankfully IE 7 has for the most part been a big […]
I Ran My Computer’s Keyboard Through the Dishwasher
May 13, 2007 – 1:13 am
My main computer’s keyboard is 10 years old. It works fine, so I haven’t had any reason to replace it as I’ve built and re-built my computer. Besides, over the years it’s adjusted itself to me; there’s even an indentation for my thumb worn down on the spacebar. But lately the years of dirt build-up […]
Installing Wine on Ubuntu Edgy (6.10) 64-bit
January 12, 2007 – 1:36 am
Using a 64-bit operating system is somewhat like being left-handed: you feel with some justification that you’re orbiting among the elite, but the world is designed against you. Installing Wine on 32-bit Ubuntu was a breeze: just a couple lines of APT. However, for 64-bit systems you have to compile Wine yourself. Even following the […]