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Books

Zen of Burningbird

I received a copy of The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web from the authors, Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag, and have been getting an intimate peek into the world of web page design the last few weeks. This is a beautiful book, with an elegant and clever layout, and featuring many examples of the famous CSS Zen […]

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Just Shelley

The trouble with neighbors

No, not the virtual kind…at least, not this time. Our housing complex is a very quiet one, mainly families, older couples, and long time residents. We’ve always been lucky with the neighbors we’ve had, but our luck was bound to run out, and it did with the newest neighbor next door. I’ve had to go […]

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Burningbird

Creaky stuff

I’m working on some components of Wordform in the next few days that could impact on weblog viewing and/or your comments. One of the downsides for modifying a ‘live’ application–but a great way to test. However, if you write a long comment, you might want to copy it into the clipboard before posting. Also, if […]

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Weblogging Writing

The syndication feed fair warning indicator

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This week I’ll be posting writings that violate the concept of ‘proper weblog entry’ all to heck–either by the use of fiction or the length of the writing, or both. As happens most times I do this, one or more people access the entry expecting to find a traditional weblog […]

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Writing

Any other updates

I caught up with the reviews of the book at Amazon. Ouch. There was some blame attached to the tech editors on the book, and that’s not fair–they weren’t responsible. These are typographical errors, which are the responsibility of me and the final editing process; or errors in style of writing, and there’s really only […]