Posts for March 2004 (16 entries)

Retro: Adventures on Speedway Boulevard

30th March 2004, late morning | Comments (37)

Tucson, Arizona, USA ~ April, 2002.

Temperature: 95°F.

Tucson is not a place for the pedestrian. Try to travel the length of East Speedway Boulevard by foot and you’ll very quickly realise that you’re an oddity, and an uncatered for oddity at that…

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Retro: Arizona poems (in jest)

28th March 2004, late evening | Comments (20)

Tucson, Arizona, USA ~ April, 2002.

Two little poems I wrote when in Tucson. Very much in jest.

Arizona

Arizona, to a moaner
Is a dream come true
For the locals and the yokels
Will irri-tate you
But the climate if you time it right
Will just about do
In this funny little town they call Tucson.

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Flexible floats 3

28th March 2004, evening time | Comments (22)

Good God, man! Not another revision!?

Yes, another revision. Shudupa ya face…

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Flexible floats 2

26th March 2004, late evening | Comments (6)

Okay, revision time. Earlier today I posted an article describing how I'd built my new reading page. Five minutes after I put that live, Mark Wubben pointed out a couple of ways the script could have been improved, and he was right…

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Flexible floats

26th March 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (36)

In my newly styled reading section I’m using das wundervoll float model to maximise the use of space on the page. I’m quite pleased with the result, so I thought I’d share how I’ve done it…

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Retro: Six generationas of baloney

25th March 2004, early afternoon | Comments (29)

Tucson, Arizona, USA ~ April, 2002.

Last night we went to a Japanese restaurant in town, and being communal tables they sat three more people down with us — a little girl, her mum and her mum’s boyfriend (a mechanic with the USAF).

During the course of our conversation Molly happened to remark that her family had a recipe for something that was five generations old. The mechanic countered that he learned his cooking from his Ma and that the recipe for his favourite sandwich was six generations old, had been brought to this country from Ireland by his Great Grandmother, and was still written on the original paper.

Now, even if that was true, ask yourself this — what kind of family needs to write down the recipe for a sandwich?


Retro: Ordering food in America

23rd March 2004, early evening | Comments (34)

Tucson, Arizona, USA ~ April, 2002.

Ordering food is always an event in America, or so it seems to me. I’ve always tripped through life on the understanding that menus indicate the food combinations and prices that an establishment offers. In the States however a menu seems to just be a starting point — a list of words and letters which can be combined into any mix of dishes that the customer desires…

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Web of the Day

23rd March 2004, the wee hours | Comments (18)

Dunstan
Hey, Dad, on Sunday I was Feedster’sFeed of the Day’. That’s nice isn’t it?
Dad
What’s Feedster?
Dunstan
(Reading from feedster.com) Feedster is to blogs what Google is to Web sites, says the Wall Street Journal.
Dad
Oh. Well, well done.
Walks off to find Mum…
Morag, Dunstan is the ‘Web of the Day’ on the ‘Google of the Internet’, apparently.
Mum
Oooooh!

Thank you Betsy Devine, and everyone else at Feedster.


Putting your underwear on backwards: the Results

18th March 2004, early evening | Comments (30)

Well well, the big day is here, and I’m sure you’re all pretty excited about what I have to say, so I shall get down to the results as quickly as possible.

I must say that as a scientist, it pains me to leave out an in-depth description of my methodology, but time is precious and already I can hear you screaming For God’s sake, the Results, man!! The Results!!, so without further ado… behold the wonder of scientific discovery…

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Server swap

18th March 2004, early afternoon | Comments (10)

Well, after months of fannying about, I’ve finally moved over to a new server. The swap threw up all kinds of new problems, and failed to solve some of the older ones I’d been blaming on an overworked SQL database, so it seems some code-delving is required.

In the meantime, if you try to view something and you’re told it doesn’t exist, please hit the reload button. Hopefully the system will sort itself out and deliver unto you the Gift of Content.

Amen.


Putting your underwear on backwards

17th March 2004, early afternoon | Comments (41)

Last night, as I was getting undressed for bed, I noticed that I had my Marks & Spencers underpants on back-to-front.

I’m pretty sure I hadn’t taken them off during the day (why would I?) which means I must have been walking around with back-to-front knickers on for about eighteen hours, and not noticed anything amiss…

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Retro: Everyone likes Cox

12th March 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (32)

Tucson, Arizona, USA ~ April, 2002.

The company that provides cable and internet access to most of the homes in Tucson is called ‘Cox’. An unfortunate choice of name, in my opinion.

Their two big advertising campaigns are called: ‘Cox in your Home’ and ‘Cox on Demand’.

I picture the following boardroom scene…

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Walking on Dartmoor

11th March 2004, early evening | Comments (25)

I don’t know what you did last weekend, but I spent my two days off in a little piece of British heaven…

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Retro: There ain’t no water in that there river

10th March 2004, early evening | Comments (20)

Tucson, Arizona, USA ~ April, 2002.

About 200 metres from Molly’s house in Tucson, her road is brought to an abrupt end as it meets the high banks of the Rillito river. Standing at this intersection you can look straight down into its dried bed, replete with scrub, discarded plastic chemical drums, and the odd abandoned car. A glance to the left, up stream, puts you face to face with the Catalina Mountains, while looking right affords a glimpse of an old Mormon adobe church, tucked away behind the trees…

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CSS drop shadows, extended

4th March 2004, lunch time | Comments (25)

I suppose I ought to point out, to those who don’t yet know, that my drop shadows technique has been extended and published on A List Apart

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When I was…

3rd March 2004, the wee hours | Comments (40)

When I was two, I climbed into our swimming pool and, unsurprisingly, sank straight to the bottom. I sat there, leaking air, until my brother spotted the bubbles, dived in, and saved my life…

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