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Below are the entries for 07/2003. If an entry has a light red background, that means it's had at least 10 comments added to it.
48 entries
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77 comments
I love optical illusions. Here’s one called the Raar Effect. It consists of several circles with detailed color and shape patterns. Wherever you happen to be looking on the image, the circles around it seem to spin slightly. If you stare at one place for a…
I’ve tweaked my custom archive summary graph script to also count the number of comments per month. You can see it on the Archive Summary page. With the new capabilities of the graph script, I can see that this month is the first month since I…
We lost another great one last night. Bob Hope died last night with his family by his bedside. He had just celebrated his 100th birthday not too long ago. Hope is recognized as the most honored…
Lean Code : July 28, 2003 : 
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Cleaner, leaner code in my Web site. I thought it wasn’t possible, but of course, Zeldman showed me I was oh so wrong. In fact, after reading more of his book, Designing With Web Standards, I realized I had quite a bit of cleaning to…
If you go to their site, read their associated comments and links for this cartoon. Makes you seriously question what the motives are of journalists in that region, and why they’re so hung up on trying to paint this as a disaster…
I’ve added a new feature to the front page that shows the most recent comments on the site. You can see it to the right of this entry. It’s a script extra for pMachine that I found at pMachine…
Lance Armstrong has joined the upper echelons of the cycling world with his fifth consecutive Tour de France win. Only four others have won it five times, and only one other has won it five times in a row, Miguel Indurain. Lance said he’s…
Please ignore the seriously ugly navigation system while I try to hammer out a nice CSS-based layout for it. OK, I think I’ve got the nav the way I want it. It no longer uses a table for layout. Just pure CSS. I think it looks…
OK, I’ve got a bit of a problem. I need to replace the <blockquote> tag with something else. My initial thought was to simply use a <div> tag and give it a class called “quote”. This displays correctly, but doesn’t validate. The validator suggested using the <object> tag. I did…
Man. Zeldman’s book is showing me exactly how many bad coding habits I have. In order for me to make the entire site 100% standards compliant, I would have to go through all of my old posts and change or get rid of tags like <blockquote>, <br>, <b>, <i>, etc. …
