I was reading an article entitled “Soon Available In Six-Packs (8/20/03)” over at As the Apple Turns. It plays on the idea of “What happens to Apple if Steve Jobs dies?” On the other hand, do you honestly think that Apple hasn’t prepared for that doomsday scenario? Well, it’s easy enough to find out; frankly, we lack the attention span to get through more than six words of Apple’s quarterly 10-Q without downing a couple of bottles of Focusyn first, but even we get a kick out of the “What If?

Congratulations are in order to Henrik Gemal, as he just recently got married! May you love each other tremendously, and have children that are just like you.

As I completed my recent website redesign, I came across a strange CSS bug in IE6/Win. I see similar bugs in IE5 and 5.5 all the time, but this is a first for me in IE6. The background color for my <h2> tag disappears on the first visible instance of it. The text is there, as well as the padding and margins. Only the background disappears. As far as it being visible, I had hoped to apply an invisible <h2> tag right above the first, but to no avail.

We are experiencing what is called a “redesign in progress”. I’m in the process of getting the new design up on all pages, but it’s not done yet. Give me a few more days, and please excuse the disgustingness of my webpages until then.

I’m sitting here looking at my website. I think it’s one of my better “simple” designs, but I started coding it earlier in my web standards days. Although it validates, it’s not semantic. I’ve designed a few sites using semantic XHTML+CSS… particularly Golden Rule Produce and a quick mock-up for Pajaro Valley Fresh. I’d like to rewrite my code to be semantic. I definitely want to keep the same general design and color scheme, but I want to clean up the code a bit, and do something better with the right-hand menu so I can nix the single layout table I have.

I’ve just switched over to the Movable Type publishing system. So far, so good. I can tell that there are many, many, many features available in this system that will make weblogging easier than the hand-rolled way. So far, I like it. I’m still working on configuration stuff and getting my templates set up, but besides that this is definitely a Good Thing™. We’ll see how this all goes…

After getting back from my vacation last night, and checking my referrers, I’ve found that my article “Play By The Rules” has been a moderate success! Besides having a metric ton of hits from Google, apparently Henrik Gemal posted a link to my article on his website… which is very good. Paland.tv, Phaedo.cx, and Deluks Pixelworks all made weblog posts about it. EdgeWalker made a forum post about it, and “deLUKs” added it to his forum signature. I even got very positive feedback from Jeffrey Zeldman, Dave Shea, and Henrik Gemal.

I saw five movies while on vacation in San Diego this past week-and-a-half. None of them sucked, but some were better than others. I will devulge some plot information here, so if you don’t want to know, then don’t read this post. Here are their reviews: Finding Nemo This was an excellent flick. The guys over at Pixar have done it again. Finding Nemo is funny, touching, and kinda yanks at those heartstrings from time to time. Ellen DeGeneres does an excellent job as the voice for “Dori”, the short-term-memory lacking fish who accompanies Nemo’s dad along the way.

I was just sitting at my desk at work, trying to kill some time before I leave for my vacation at 5pm. I went to CSS Zen Garden to check out some new CSS designs, and was blown away by one particular design. Outstanding! I wanna be like this guy when I grow up.

A guy from Coding Forums commented on my recent article “Play By The Rules” on his blog. The only problem is that it’s in German. I did some digging around on Yahoo! and found a translation service. I punched in the URL for Morded’s blog, and came up with this (rather rough) translation. Ryan Parman wrote an interesting Rant, suitable title: Play By The Rules. In the reason I understand the motives for such an article, and the constant discussion “why standards?