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quizzically ill
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Thu 05/08/2008 5:16 PM
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I'm home today... well, since about 11:00 anyway. I've been sick for a month with some kind of cold/sinus thing, and finally reached my breaking point. I've had three nosebleeds in two days, from blowing my nose, coughing too hard, and one from just daring to crinkle my nose or flare my nostril, or whatever it was I did to make it spontaneously start bleeding in the car on the way home for lunch yesterday. I can't stop coughing up this lovely, nasty substance, and if I bend my head forward my nose fills up and I can't breathe. Washing my hair was fun. So I went into work this morning just to do the things that absolutely needed to be done - because for some reason I have this guilt about there not being any one else to do them, even though I am not the one who created that situation, nor the one with the power to change it. And as soon as I was done, I filled the just-in-case amoxicillin prescription my doctor gave me last month when I first started feeling all of this coming on, and came home.
But of course, I'm really fidgety when it comes to trying to rest during the day, so the best I could do was plop my butt in front of the computer all day. And I came up with something fun for you.
Let's see how well you really know me! I've put together a twenty-question quiz, in two parts because the quiz creator I used had a ten-question limit. My family and close friends should do really well on this (you'd better!), but I think even those random readers just passing through can do a decent job with some research and a few educated guesses. Be sure to enter a name I'll recognize, if I know you, and if I don't know you leave a comment here with the same name and some way to contact you, in case I see a really impressive score and decide to award some kind of prize. Don't forget, after part one, to move on to part two!
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stylish design
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Tue 05/06/2008 8:58 PM
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In no way do I consider myself a "professional" web designer. I design based on what is aesthetically pleasing to me, and I may not follow all of the "rules". Personally I don't think there are rights and wrongs when it comes to design, beyond the obvious of making sure the information is readable. It's just a matter of personal opinion. I've been given the opportunity to review a web design blog called Stylish design. I was curious to see this person's version of the "rules", and whether he practices what he preaches.
I like the overall look and layout of the site, but there are a couple of small issues when viewing the site in Firefox. The first is that in the search box, the text is cut off at the bottom. Secondly, the blog title and subtitle overlap a bit too far, making the subtitle hard to read. In Internet Explorer, the overlap is less pronounced, but could still be reduced in my opinion.
The method of laying out recent posts in a two-column grid on the front page is... well, different. I kind of like it, but I was confused at first as to whether the entries were ordered left to right, row by row, or top to bottom, column by column. I suppose that's why most blogs stick to a simple single-column format for their entry listings.
If you browse the archives, there seem to be entries missing. For example, the oldest entry in the web design category seems to be a continuation of something. Where is the rest of it?
I read the most recent post, Top Three Web Design Basics. Ah, so here is where the writer proclaims what he deems to be right and wrong in web design. I had some major disagreements with him right off the bat.
keep reading...
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iphone acquired
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Mon 05/05/2008 5:38 PM
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I have my iPhone! No, I didn't raise all that money already. I received my economic stimulus rebate last week, so I used that as a sort of advance so that I could write a check to our friend who sold the phone to me (for $100 less than retail). I still plan to make it all back to pay on our credit cards, which was our original intention for the rebates.
For my friends and family who call me, never fear. Thanks to local number portability, you don't have to learn yet another new number. We are shutting off our home phone, and that number will now be my cell phone number. The transfer takes some time, though, so for the time being I can make calls on my iPhone, but incoming calls still only ring at the house. AT&T has told me that the switch-over should take place next Monday. I was actually a little bit surprised that they didn't assign a temporary number just so I could receive calls in the meantime.
Since Chris has an iPhone as well, the challenge now is making it so we can tell them apart without having to turn the screens on and look at the wallpapers. So I've ordered a silicone "skin" case for mine from eBay. It's supposed to be purple, but in the picture it looked more pink to me. But we'll see. I can live with pink. It should also give me a bit more grip on the phone, which is good since I have dropped Chris' a few times. I'm also getting a holster-type case for it, in purple of course, so that I can carry it on my hip. Combine that with the Bluetooth headset and I should be able to at least receive calls hands-free.
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