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Winner of SitePointForums.com CSS contest announced
A while back I wrote on the CSS contest at SitePointForums.com called The Beauty of Style. Well, after some hiccups over the judging, the winner has finally been announced. All credit to zoo (Rick) for handling the contest very nicely despite the many difficulties and speed bumps.
Personally, I liked Zanzibar as well, and would have liked it to win over Deadend Prophecy which I've found breaks in IE 5.0 (on Windows). Nevertheless, it's still a stunning design, and I don't really give too much of a care for IE 5.0 myself.
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Mozilla Backup for Firebird and Thunderbird
Pavel Cvrcek's Mozilla Backup utility (the 1.1 Beta2 version) now supports backing up and restoring of Firebird and Thunderbird profiles. It was disappointing to find that it worked only for the Mozilla suite when I last tried it. Anyhow, it works absolutely fine and it's a great tool. Now if only there were a Linux version so I can bring my finely-tuned Firebird profile into my Linux box.
Source: MozillaZine
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The monthly report - September 2003
redemption in a blog received 9039 visits for this month of September 2003, working to an average of 301 hits per day. This entry also marks my 100th entry - the 3rd of many useless statistics to come in this entry.
Most visited entries:
- My entry linking to a Naruto cosplay picture was rather well-visited, mostly because of Google. (2nd on Google)
- Flash your keyboard lights with Java is also something interesting that I picked up from someone else's weblog. Pretty neat.
- The most recent entry on Kids these days... was a more "human interest" entry which I'd hardly ever done since I started blogging.
Other interesting stuff:
- September 2003 is the best ever month for me in a long long time, for personal reasons which I will not divulge. Yay!
- I've added a Mozilla banner to the main page of my weblog.
Once again, as always, thanks for reading!
Past monthly reports:
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Kids these days...
Just today, I was waiting in the queue for the bus when the secondary school girl (probably 14 years of age) who was behind me in the queue dropped a coin. I think it was a 20 cent (the currency is the Singapore Dollar) coin. And she didn't pick it up. I'm pretty sure she'd noticed it, and it is easily within reach if she just bent down. She wasn't carrying anything that would inconvenience her picking up the coin. She just stared at it for a moment and then promptly ignored it as she whipped out her Nokia 8310 handphone and started pressing the buttons.
I remember back when a 10 cent coin used to matter (10 cents could get you 3 sweets), not to mention a 20 cent coin. In fact I'd pick it up if I dropped it, now. Why not? Should anyone feel embarassed to pick up a 20 cent coin? No. Should a 20 cent coin have so little value that it isn't worth the effort to pick it up when dropped? Not yet (at least until inflation gets real high). I realize I'm being critical of the young lady without giving her the benefit of the doubt, but I make no excuse for that.
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Vinnie on tables and CSS
A fellow Advisor at SitePoint Forums, Vinnie Garcia, has a blog! And how's this for a 3rd blog entry? In that entry titled "On tables, layouts, and CSS", Vinnie makes a very coherent argument on using tables for layouts - probably one of the most practical viewpoints to date.
We can love using CSS for our layouts fanatically, but we must also come to realise that sometimes tables will allow you to design truly cross-browser sites. At this time I've yet to find a 3-column CSS layout that doesn't break with varying column heights, without resorting to hacks. If a hack is required, I think I'd stick to using a table, thank you. At least until browsers are capable.
Vinnie sums up pretty nicely with this
I guess the moral of this rant is to remind everyone that while using Web standards is a smarter way to work, let's not get bogged down in theory and worrying about validation.
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