Theodicius

Good. Evil. Bratwurst.

Hello, old friend.

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 4:55 pm

<Deep Sigh> Ran in to an old familiar-but-forgotten bug today. Caused by tables, currently inserted into the design unnecessarily by the OSCMS I was using. It has been so long since I’d worked with table-based designs I’d completely forgotten that when you style a table as width: 100% IE/Win decides that you mean more than […]

He’s at it again

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 8:25 am

My favorite oversimplifier, Jakob Nielsen is At It Again. This time it’s computer security. As usual, there’s some meat in the soup. Computer security should be easier for normal people to set up. He uses the analogy of locking a car. That level of security for a computer should be trivially easy for a user […]

Life changes

Filed under: General— arlen@ 10:53 am

…when you have a child. Jeff Zeldman is finding that out. I remember well the first day I met my oldest child. I was prepared, I’d had more than 9 months to think about the idea, get used to it, plan for it — but it didn’t matter. The man who picked up those seven […]

CMS, part II

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 1:28 pm

OK, so you already know I’m not extremely happy with the state of the CMS arena currently, and I promised you an update. Andrew Eddie of the Mambo team and I have been exchanging some emails, each of us educating the other. I find that part of my previous rant was being addressed almost as […]

Hickory Dickory Death

Filed under: Books,General— arlen@ 9:26 am

The next stop on my journey through Dame Agatha’s land was Hickory Dickory Death. Another of the “nursery rhyme” mysteries, this one is not one of her best. Oh, its a good puzzle (when does she not make one?) but in this book her palming of the critical clues is not quite up to her […]

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