Best Election Blog Entry
…I’ve ever read: Build Anything There’s a reason that man’s in my blogroll, after all.
Author Archives: arlen
Speaking Too Soon
Just a few weeks after Time magazine writes about Exposing the “Jesus’ Brother” Hoax we get treated to this: the trial judge in the alleged forgery case recommended the prosecution, um, “reassess its position.” (Jerusalem Post / San Francisco Chronicle) What both of these stories omit is that one of the “experts” who claimed “the […]
A Tale of Two Cities
OK, the election is upon us. It’s the only time our government is required by law to listen to us, yet so few of us take advantage of it. One reason may be the success of negative campaign ads. According to the latest numbers from the University of Wisconsin’s Advertising Project (and injecting my own […]
Lessons Learned
Sorry about the delay. I’ve been working, and learning. I think as much or more of the latter as the former. What’s going on? In no particular order: Andy Clarke tipped me to a huge improvement over opacity, RGBa. He got it from Dan Cederholm (who, BTW, quotes Wilson Miner on a “crafty” use for […]
On CSS Resets
I’ve been using CSS reset code for quite a while. My “weapon of choice” in that category has been Eric Meyer’s version. But lately I’ve been rethinking the proposition, mainly because of some “interesting” issues that crop up repetitively. Most of my clients don’t accept arguments in favor of letting the user’s default font size […]