~The Catch-All Drawer~

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Google Talk
Let Google finish your sentences for you at this fun site.

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Monday, January 10, 2005

Hubble video
Here is a selection of some of the incredible Hubble photography in a video format. Unfortunately, it's set to "space music". Who decided that space sounds like that? I would prefer a brass fanfare or woodwind sonatas.

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Sunday, January 09, 2005

Etch-A-Sketch
Here is a real, working Etch-A-Sketch.

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Friday, January 07, 2005

Trivial solution; HTML & FireFox
I know this is not a universally interesting post, but I just had to share it somewhere, and the BLOG takes the beating. So if your HTML beanie isn't spinning right now, skip this post.
I'm trying to use FireFox most of the time now.
I found a small deficiency was that it did not display alt text in a little box when you hover your mouse over an image like IE does. Hover and point to the Right Good Blog link image over to the left on this page to see the effect.
I did not like this lacking, because some of my sites rely on this hover box text as a little clue or comment about the image. In one case (ct-bands.com) my image map relied totally on these boxes to see the band name to go to.
I finally found the solution, and it seems that FireFox is not wrong. The real HTML spec is for title text, not alt text to show in the box, which FireFox does. IE just extends this spec to show alt text if there is no title text entered. So if you want it compatible all the way, use both in this style:
img title="some text to show" alt="some text to show" src="http://www.domain.com/picture.jpg"

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Sunday, January 02, 2005

Freedom to name kids after computer terms?
I read that in China a man was denied the right to name his son "@"

In a related story, another Chinese man was denied the right to name his son "Zhao.com"

Proving that we are a free country, an American named Jon Blake Cusak named his son John Blake Cusak 2.0 .


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Google Talk
Hubble video
Etch-A-Sketch
Trivial solution; HTML & FireFox
Freedom to name kids after computer terms?