Entries from February 2006

Working as contractor has its advantages. It’s a little like being a mercenary, because you work for the highest bidder, and your loyalty is to yourself and the mighty dollar.As opposed to an institution, an ideology, or even a succession path.But wait up, now that I think of it, most people’s loyalty is to themselves and the money. So much for that line of thinking then. Regardless, contracting still has ... Read full entry

And there goes February. The last two weeks have vanished into a tangle of phone calls and jaunts about town all in the name of trying to finalise an apartment purchase. The whole deal now rests in the hands of the lawyers, so fingers crossed.Among other things, the unfortunate cost of this distraction are my neglected web projects. I haven’t been able to get ... Read full entry

Well what do you buy for the girl who has everything? And, er, no, I’m not talking about my wife or girlfriend. The two of them have enough as is ;) It’s my niece I’ve been having trouble shopping for. I mean she has a trampoline, a bike, and the use of her brother’s skateboard, what more could an almost eight year old girl want?Apart from a pony, more ... Read full entry

Web designers will be more than familiar with a number of Internet Explorer’s rendering bugs. Need I mention the three pixel jog, or the double margin float bug? Not all bugs, or “quirks” are CSS related though, and while designing the latest version of disassociated I stumbled upon a problem IE6 has rendering straight out XHTML.Now in the old days ... Read full entry