Kimberly Blessing is a computer scientist, a Web developer, a standards evangelist, a feminist, and a geek. This is where she writes about life, technology, women's issues, and whatever else comes to mind.
I had Porter create a visually similar alert not too long ago, but I really like Steve’s custom alert because it overrides the window.alert method. It may not be perfect, but it’s a great solution in an environment like the one where I work — where content editors and software engineers that don’t know better try to program their own alerts. Heheheh… I’ll stop you now, my pretty!
The story of the early 80’s Philly-area punk band, Narthex, really could be the story of any
Philly area punk/ska/altrock band from the 80’s or 90’s. Or at least those that I knew. It has all of the elements that typified my experience: kids that worked together on the local school district TV station, liked Monty Python, built their own synthesizers (only in some cases), listened to WXPN (back when XPN was good), and ate at IHOP after shows. OK, most of the bands I knew didn’t play shows in venues that were open late enough to warrant trips to IHOP, but they tried.
Those were the days…
It’s only taken me eight months, but I’m finally posting to my blog again. Mostly I’m doing it in order to call attention to my site redesign, which I worked on last night during the State of the Union address (although I didn’t watch it, so I can’t comment on it). I hope that I’m also doing it out of an effort to start blogging regularly — geez, I sound like a broken record on that one.
Your comments on the new site design are welcome. I don’t claim to be a designer (I still have a hard time matching clothes) but I don’t think the color craziness is too horrible. Except maybe the yellow. Haven’t gotten that shade right yet.
The rest of the site content will start showing up this weekend.
Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites by Christopher Schmitt, Kimberly Blessing, et al.