April 12th, 2004 with .
XFN is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. It is essentially a method of building a network of links indicating your relationship with that particular person or company you’ve linked to.
I’ve implemented XFN and proudly display the button on the sidebar. It is something I’ve been kicking around for a while because I wasn’t educated as to what XFN’s purpose was. Not until I read ‘Friend, XFN and Hyperlinks‘ by Shirley Kaiser (of Brainstorms and Raves fame) did I fully realize the potential of XFN. Shirley describes XFN as “a simple way to represent human relationships within hyperlinks”.
April 9th, 2004 with .
A co-worker of mine (we’ll call him Tod) relayed a thought of his dealing with a particular situation that he’s had to cope with in the past. He mentioned that whenever he uses an ATM sometimes he’ll find a balance receipt hanging from the slot, the result of someone walking away without first either:
- Taking their balance receipt and stuffing it into their pockets, or simply
- Crumbling the receipt into a ball and shooting a free throw into the trash.
April 7th, 2004 with .
This site now features a cascading style sheet switcher (courtesy of alistapart.com). The style switcher works with the help of Javascript and a cookie which saves the specific color scheme you choose, otherwise the rust scheme would replace your selection and that just wouldn’t be cool.
For the moment the switcher allows you to control the color scheme of the site. The CSS defaults to the rust and beige scheme which is my favorite of course, but also includes an option for green and orange. I plan on creating more colors to choose from and other layout options in the near future. This is a perfect example of how flexible CSS really is and the amount of control you can give your users depending on if it’s just color changes, textual tweaks or full on layout transformations.
April 6th, 2004 with .
The other day we found several boxes of Pirates Keg Orange Soda (pictured at left) in the dumpster.
It seems as though a crew of pirates have either stashed their booty hoping no one would find it or realized this soda has absolutely no taste whatsoever. Prior to finding these, I had never heard of Pirate’s Keg before and was surprised that the soft drink is bottled locally.
Nevertheless you don’t always find perfectly intact (and not to mention full) bottles of “Gourmet Soda” in the dumpster. It’s a rare find indeed!
