{"id":148,"date":"2005-12-20T01:11:32","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T09:11:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:34","slug":"december-randoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/12\/december-randoms","title":{"rendered":"December Randoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts from December:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Head on over to Mark Wubben&#8217;s site and get involved with <a href=\"http:\/\/novemberborn.net\/sifr3\/look-into-the-future\" target=\"_blank\">sIFR 3<\/a>.  Mark will be handling primary sIFR 3 development, but I&#8217;ll remain involved as spiritual advisor.  Also, check out Faruk&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/kurafire.net\/projects\/face\" target=\"_blank\">FACE CSS technique<\/a>.  I haven&#8217;t used it but it looks eyebrow-raising.<\/li>\n<li>If you use a Mac and do any amount of CSS design, you must check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturedcode.com\/xyle\/\" target=\"_blank\">XyleScope<\/a>.  I used it early on in its beta life, but upon downloading version 1.1.5, I can say that it&#8217;s one of the best pieces of web development\/design software around.  Inline, on-the-fly CSS editing. Ahhhhhhh.<\/li>\n<li>Intuit has apparently started mailing unsolicited CDs of TurboTax to people. I just got mine this week. You just enter a code when you install it and your card gets charged. Although this is obviously a bit wasteful from an environmental standpoint, it&#8217;s a pretty effective sales tactic.  I now have a physical CD in my possession, I know I&#8217;m going to need it, so there is a 100% chance I will end up using it. I might even do my taxes early now. Hooray for unsolicited CDs in the mail!<\/li>\n<li>Mike Industries hit a new personal record on Wednesday with 70,000 page views thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/12\/14\/140257\" target=\"_blank\">this slashdotting<\/a> of sIFR by &#8220;Commander Taco&#8221;.  Honestly, I didn&#8217;t even want to read the thread because I figured that Flash plus Slashdot would equal total lunacy, but I have to hand it to the Slashdot community&#8230; it was pretty even-handed.  Any moronic remarks were generally met with reason and RTFAs.<\/li>\n<li>The great <a href=\"\/blog\/archive\/2005\/12\/nokia-e70-lust\">Nokia N70 experiment<\/a> has failed. I&#8217;m sticking with my Treo for now.  I just can&#8217;t deal with keys made for hobbits.<\/li>\n<li>I went to a concert in Seattle this weekend and The Wrens were the last band to play.  They were okay, but they did do something on stage I had never seen before.  The singer picked up his cell phone between songs, dialed a number, and then sat down on stage.  The rest of the band then began into a song and the rhythm guitarist held his own cell phone up to the pickup on his electric guitar.  Then, the singer sang through his own phone, over to the guitarist&#8217;s phone, in through the guitar pickup, and out the speakers.  Pretty interesting.<\/li>\n<li>Woohoo! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/12\/12\/earlyshow\/series\/survivor\/main1115930.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Danni won Survivor<\/a>.  How many times has Hefner called already?<\/li>\n<li>Firefox 1.5 continues to puzzle me.  Aside from some unexplainable bugs related to its new handling of the <code>overflow<\/code> property, I just found out that it spits out errors when encountering the <a href=\"http:\/\/wellstyled.com\/css-underscore-hack.html\" target=\"_blank\">underscore hack<\/a>.  The underscore hack is probably my all-time favorite CSS hack and I much prefer it to the valid-but-much-more-verbose &#8220;* HTML hack&#8221;.  I&#8217;m pretty sure the W3C specs say to ignore any CSS properties that the browser doesn&#8217;t understand, but instead, Firefox 1.5 reports errors.  Ugh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts from December: Head on over to Mark Wubben&#8217;s site and get involved with sIFR 3.  Mark will be handling primary sIFR 3 development, but I&#8217;ll remain involved as spiritual advisor.  Also, check out Faruk&#8217;s new FACE CSS technique.  I haven&#8217;t used it but it looks eyebrow-raising.  If you use a Mac and do any amount of CSS design, you must check out XyleScope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}