30. August, 2003 - now that’s more like it
- It looked glum for a whle last night, but eventually the Saints rallied, scoring three runs with two out in the ninth to win the game 7-6. There were a bunch of errors made by the Saints, both defensively and on the base-paths, but they didn’t roll over and managed to pull out the win. Good work, boys. Hopefully Justin Hall & Jody Friedman’s injuries are minor and they’ll be healthy again for the playoffs, which begin on Tuesday.
- More than once I’ve wondered about blogging a complete game while sitting at Midway Stadium. But I’ve decided that taking a laptop would leave me more worried about the computer than the game. What I really want (and have wanted for some other situations) is a small, unobtrusive device (something Palm-sized or smaller) with a separate one-handed keyboard (probably a chording keyboard, so I’d also have the learning curve on that to worry about) so I can take notes one-handed, have a clear view of everything that’s going on, and still have a hand free for the beer. And then there would need to be an easy way to get the data from the device to the website. Hmm. Any suggestions? Or should I just use a pen and paper?
- Turn Back the Spam of Time. So apparently the time-travel spammer actually believes the bizarre story in his spam, and has even paid people for crap they sent him that they claimed would help get him back to the future. But he’s also sent out millions of commercial spams too, so don’t feel too sorry for the guy. [fark!]
- Here’s a swell article on Containing Floats. I generally kludge around the problems I have with floating images here, and maybe this is going to be the right long-term solution. I dunno. At least it’s another technique I can try. [zeldman]
- W3C Markup Validator 0.6.5 Beta #1—“Zeldman Made Us Do It!”—Is Released! You can now get customized explanations of the error messages (and submit new explanations if the one that’s there isn’t good enough) and turn on
fussy parsing
mode, which will catch more errors. It’s at http://validator.w3.org:8001/ if you’re interested. Thanks to the w3c guys for implementing it and to Zeldman for pointing out what needed doing. [zeldman]
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:37:11.