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Archive, April 2002
Tuesday, 30. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Adam and I had lots of fun with this:
There is a correspondence chess tournament going on at the OzoneAsylum. We picked up stansco.com as a host of our games. They have a beautiful and powerful engine that runs everything. There is one problem though. I would like to see all our games on one place instead of going to each page separately. For example, I am playing here, DocOzone is playing here, and so on . . . but what if I want to see them all at once? Well, this question was a starting point of our little project. Here is what we came up with [caution, Java Applet ahead]. Each game is generated on the fly. How did we do that. Just guess!
Monday, 29. April 2002
[12:00 am]
I start to hate the letter "X".
· Windows XP
· Office XP
· Xbox
· Flash MX
· DreamWeaver MX,
· ColdFusion MX
· Fireworks MX
· add here more . . .
Sunday, 28. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Bottle-opening robot
Nice thing, isn't it?
Bottle openers will retire soon, heh. I guess, we will wait a couple of months until we see its brothers opening wine bottles.
Saturday, 27. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Forms without submit buttons, how is that? I am building a page and somehow "submit button" doesn't fit to the overall design. I am talking mainly about the form that has just one text field.
When submitting a form what do you usually do, hit "submit button" on the screen or "enter" on your key board? I personally use the latter, because it's faster. Do you think it is stupid to leave out the "submit button" like I did here for the blog search.
Friday, 26. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Apple introducing the new iToilet. :-)
Thursday, 25. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Screw Netscape 4.x! How many times did you say this phrase?
However, it often happens that we still have to design for this ancient browser. In that case, take a look at the list of the CSS Tags Fully Supported by Netscape 4.x [via Glish].
A very nice summary.
Wednesday, 24. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Ozone Asylum Chess Tournament
Mad Scientists playing chess. Me here, currently playing here.
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
I had lots of fun reading this essay. Of course, don't take it literally.
PowerToys for WinXP are back. TweakUI is my favorite.
Monday, 22. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Just got back from the Java exam. It went OK, but I am not fully satisfied. Most of the questions were on Algorithms and Arrays, which I, to some extend neglected during my preparation. It is always the same thing with me, I learn much better when I don't have to study for exams, test and others.
Oh, Happy Earth Day!
Sunday, 21. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Asylum Google-bomb project!
We want to come up first on Google when searching for "Mad Scientists". Everything that needs to be done is linking: Mad Scientists.
God is the best example of Google bombing so far :-)
Saturday, 20. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Sofia found a nice car for sale today.
Friday, 19. April 2002
[12:00 am]
I am building a PHP/mySql/Apache/Unix web site for a client and I must admit, I love this combination.
I have also discovered a neat thing. You can use your MS Access database on your home computer to manage an online mySql database. I didn't know that. My hosting company provides a little tutorial that covers this.
I dare to promise you, in a couple of months from here, you won't be seeing any .asp extensions at sashaDesign.com.
Wednesday, 17. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Our final exam is scheduled for Monday. I am kind of nervous. I feel, I haven't covered everything and the D-day is coming closer and closer.
Why do I have to do this to myself in my thirties?
Tuesday, 16. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Would you pay for content?
Netdiver's survey
Monday, 15. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Win-XP Search Assistant silently downloads files.
Just over a week ago, while searching for a file on a Windows-XP machine, I was surprised to see the Search Assistant attempting to activate my Internet connection. It puzzled me because I wasn't searching the Internet, only my local drive. I was busy with other things at the time, but I made a mental note to look into it soon, which I promptly forgot to do.
Hm?!
Sunday, 14. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Some things, so many times forgotten. Very good:
Changing the colour of the scrollbar, changing the desktop image, changing the panel/taskbar colours, changing the colour of the title bar, changing the functionality of the title bar's buttons (menu, minimize, maximize/restore, shade, close) are the job of the user, *not* the designer.
Mark Gallagher
Saturday, 13. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Funny [via asylum]:
A tall, well-built woman with good
sense of humor, who can cook frog
legs and who appreciates a good fuc-
schia garden, classic music and tal-
king without getting too serious.
call me if you're free @ 1-555-555-5555
(please read lines 1,3,5 only)
Friday, 12. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Horizontal rule using CSS (I think it is neat):
.hrule
{
border-bottom: 1px #000 solid;
}
HTML predefined icon-like symbols is an interesting idea, just imagine you type &caution; in your HTML code, and you get something like the image on the right side.
Thursday, 11. April 2002
[12:00 am]
A new study says Canadians are more wired than Americans, . . .
I've always been fascinated with the The 5K project. This year's competition should be open for entries very soon. If I get some time I may be able to participate.
I've just found a similar concept at 256 byte Minimalistic HTML Competition. Lots of interesting ideas can be found over there.
Wednesday, 10. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Cumulative Patch for Internet Information Services.
Virgin stimulate. Who? Me?
Tuesday, 09. April 2002
[12:00 am]
After the well known scrolling bug that affects A List Apart, this looks like yet another annoyance in Win/IE6. Or is it just me?
F5 fixes the problem.
Monday, 08. April 2002
[12:00 am]
As a small exercise for me, I am building this site in PHP and MySQL on Apache. The same look and feel but different technology. I'll give it a try. Tweaking around my own site has always been the best way to learn.
Sunday, 07. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Searched the web for "windows sucks" - about 13,500 search results.
Searched the web for "linux sucks" - about 4,760 search results.
Searched the web for "windows rules" - about 886 search results.
Searched the web for "linux rules" - about 6,840 search results.
Hm?!
Saturday, 06. April 2002
[12:00 am]
I bet, you've noticed weird things going on here in the last two days!
If you're looking at this right now, you are most likely on my home computer :-)
I am transfering the site to a new server. While on my home computer, everything may be a bit slower until the DNS change have propagated through the Internet completely.
Why slower? Because it is a cable connection, upload is slower, but also because I have a couple of processor intense programs opened at the moment :-)
Stop hacking!
Server troubles are nothing compared to the one of the most terrifying days in my life.
Friday, 05. April 2002
[12:00 am]
Gates duped by Canadian radio hosts.
Bill Gates fell silent when he heard what he thought was the Canadian prime minister insulting his Windows operating system.
Have you ever tried to convert between binary and decimal numbers?
Thursday, 04. April 2002
[12:00 am]
People are looking less for sexually oriented material on the Web and more for business information, a new Penn State-led study says.
I had Canon D60 in my hands today. Real beauty.
The Truth Behind CSS. Luckily it is just a joke :-)
Tuesday, 02. April 2002
[12:00 am]
It is snowing heavily here in Toronto. It's April for God's sake!
Pictures from our balcony, taken by Sofia.
Monday, 01. April 2002
[12:00 am]
PigeonRank, the heart of Google's search technology.
Oh, what a sweet little bookmarklet that displays the HTML comments of a web page in a visible form.
Take advantage of CSS by downloading Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
[via glish]
Happy Fool's Day, everybody. Be nice to each other. Dont's stick "Kick Me!" on someone's back! Make sure to check
phpinfo pages today :-)
