May 31st, 2004 with .
The next time you pull up to a drive-thru window at your local fast food joint, think of this: 100-percent of the food you’re eating has been altered chemically in a corporate lab.
I’m not ranting over the subject nor am I throwing up a protest sign, on the contrary, I find R&D (Research and Development) fascinating. For instance, Wendy’s Research and Development teams use a combination of off the shelf McCormick spices and chemicals to concoct, to the minute detail and texture, the taste of everything from hamburgers to chicken tenders. Combinations are throughly tested and refined for that perfect taste that you so often hear about in marketing advertisements.
May 28th, 2004 with .
Driving home from work yesterday I decided to cut through the high school parking lot. The high school is located behind where we live, so taking this short cut saves time on not having to sit through 2 or 3 traffic lights. Almost adjacent to the softball field is the Police station, an ideal location for the cops to keep a watchful eye on the teens. It also means that if you go over the 15 MPH speed limit you’re an easy target.
May 27th, 2004 with .
Have you ever had one of those weeks where you feel unproductive?
This week I’ve been feeling that way and while I typically love web development and graphic design, for the past few days I haven’t felt that vibe that keeps me motivated. It’s not my job, I love my job, in fact I received great news that the company I’ve been subcontracting for the past year and a half wants to put me on their permanent staff.
Starting June 1st, I will be part of the official machine, instead of feeling like a contributing outsider. I’m excited and at the same time a bit fearful considering I haven’t officially worked for a company for almost 2 years.
May 25th, 2004 with .
I’ve been flipping through More Eric Meyer on CSS (excellent book by the way) and realized that despite what I’ve learned in the past year about CSS, there are several things I still need to refine and improve upon.
My achilles tendon is the 3-column fluid layout, which I’ve experimented upon, but as of late the layout tends to break in Internet Explorer 6 (and below). I’ve been reading various sources about clearing floats, namely Clearing floats without structural markup and Floatutorial. It makes sense that floats were essentially designed for floating images (similar to applying an image wrap in a word processing program), however, it still puts a tack in my side when I’m coding a site for a client and keep running into the same brick wall, or the obstruction better known as Internet Explorer.
