Almost Irish
Mar122002
There are only a few more days left until St. Patrick’s Day. To get in the mood, you might want to cook up some Irish dishes, or learn a little bit of slang.
Blog Archives
How Bad Does Netscape 4 Suck?
Mar122002
I’m on a mission, and I need your help. I want to collect links to essays about Netscape 4 suckage. I already have a few (see below), but I’m sure there must be tons more out there. But! I don’t want just any old blather. I want well written articles with technical details, preferably by professional (or semi-pro) web designers. If you know of articles like this (or have written one yourself), please add a … Continue reading
Busy Bee
Mar082002
Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I’ve stayed pretty busy at work, and at home, too. But it’s been a good kind of busy. Yesterday at work, we got our web team together and finally settled on a template and structure for a redesign of our company web site. This is something I’ve been itching to do since I started working here 2 years ago. Our web site has a lot of good features, … Continue reading
How Southern Geeks Spend a Saturday
Mar012002
Things my wife and I will do this weekend: Go to the Rattlesnake Rodeo Go to MP Surplus and buy some camos Purchase a Weird Al Yankovic CD Oddly enough, these are all work-related events for my wife.
Syndicate Dougal
Feb282002
In case anyone cares, and you haven’t noticed already, you can now get an RSS headlines feed from this site. See that orange “XML” button in the menus? Nooo, don’t click it — it’s just there to give you the URL (which is https://dougal.gunters.org/myphpblog/rss.php). RSS is a way to get headlines from other sites into your own. For example, check out this really boring page. Those headlines come from a bunch of other sites, and … Continue reading
Scottish Mood-Enhancing Ice Cream
Feb282002
Scottish ice cream maker Mackie’s is launching what it claims is the world’s first mood-enhancing ice cream, according to a report in Scotland on Sunday. The company, based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland has added the essence of an orchid native to Alaska to a low-calorie ice cream, a recipe it claims makes people happy. I never thought that ice cream needed anything extra in it to make me happy. Mmmm…. Ice cream…. Dr Bernard Senior, a … Continue reading
iStockPhoto Relaunch
Feb262002
We web designers are always on the lookout for sources of images to use in the sites we create. Most image sources are either low-quality, or very expensive. One great exception is iStockPhoto, which offers royalty-free images uploaded by its own members, many of whom are professional photographers or designers. To support the site, they are now charging $0.25 per download, $0.05 of which goes back to the original artist. I’m hoping that this will … Continue reading
World Wide Web
Feb222002
Emphasis on the “world wide” part. I chatted with tjp from Hungary(!) earlier. tjp asked me to look at this cool little drawing app. The page is in Hungarian, but tjp’s English was fine, and I was able to get some tips to get me going. caps-lock will toggle you between “click” mode, “pen down” mode, and “pen up” mode. right-click a pixel to set it to the background color. The links at the top … Continue reading
Blogchat!
Feb222002
New web site feature: blogchat! Courtesy of Brent Ashley. In my menus, you should be able to see whether or not I’m online. If so, you can pop up a chat window. Hoopy!
Sarnik
Feb152002
Sarnik is a graphical role playing game written completely in cross-browser client-side DHTML. Impressive.