September, 2006

• Here’s something I’ll bet you didn’t know. Flickr blocks non-camera-generated images from public viewing areas, including rss feeds! I found this out recently in trying to set up a flickr group for “Godly Creative People](http://godlycreatives.com/ in which members can upload and share images of their creative works. The idea is to have people submit an [...]

  Flickr and non-photos

• A friend and I were chatting and talking about getting rid of things that stand between us and God (burning them, actually). I laughed, saying my computer would be first to go. He said he’d have to throw himself into the fire, which opens up a whole other conversation on loving wrath, but basically, we agree that the problems in our lives are not always the actual problem.

  It’s not you, computer, it’s me

• A friend and I were chatting and talking about getting rid of things that stand between us and God (burning them, actually). I laughed, saying my computer would be first to go. He said he’d have to throw himself into the fire, which opens up a whole other conversation on loving wrath, but basically, we agree that the problems in our lives are not always the actual problem.

  It’s not you, computer, it’s me

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  Light

• Last night around midnight I got an email from “Text Link Ads](http://www.text-link-ads.com/ telling us about a private beta for feed ads, which of course they asked us to keep hush-hush. I was sufficiently interested, thinking it could be of some benefit to me, even though “Feedburner](http://feedburner.com already supports ads. But, I didn’t get a chance [...]

  Shortest Beta in History?

• Remember “CSS Naked Day](http://www.dustindiaz.com/naked-day/? Well, there’s a reason for that event. The point was to see how your site would stand up when styles were completely removed. Would it look the same because you used nested tables and inline styles? Would it totally break because you used a mashup of both? Or, would it flow [...]

  Quick Tip: Designing Semantics

• In an old classic, Dorothy exclaims, “quote and cite and blockquote! Oh, my!” “Wizard of Oz(actually, it was ‘Lions and tigers and bears’ but you may not know that if I didn’t cite it)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/quotes/ How are we to reference this quotation from this famous movie? Every which way we like, that’s how. Actually, [...]

  Citations and Semantics

• The “Pink for October](http://pinkforoctober.org/ theme is going up early. Looking at my schedule for this week, I’ve got so much going on (including writing about breast cancer) I just know I’ll forget to put it up on time to have time to tweak it, so I’m doing it today to get it out of the [...]

  Early for October

• I’m gathering some notes for a new article, for a big design magazine I won’t spill yet, on footers. I’ll be talking about a lot of the new things being done with footers starting with the “fat” footers that took off last year. So, as any good writer does in preparing for a more substantial [...]

  Fab Footers

• I’m leaving in the morning to go to Indianapolis for an “AIGA Conference](http://www.indianapolis.aiga.org/incommand06/index.shtm there Friday, so I know a few of you are in that area – if you want to have a cup of coffee, email me tonight and we can work out a plan. I’ll be driving, then seeing clients and friends most [...]

  Indy Readers Meet

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  Work

• A feature from Vitamin entitled “Why standards still matter](http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/why-standards-still-matter got me thinking today about evangelism in relation to web standards. I do this a lot, but haven’t talked about it recently. My whole Standards for Life thing isn’t a phase. It’s not a bandwagon kind of craze that I’m going to out grow or out [...]

  Preaching to the Choir