http://geek.focalcurve.com Chicken. Grease. Salt. Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:29:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I signed up for Flickr a little over four years ago. While I was going through the initial setup and exploratory tinkerings, I was presented with the opportunity to change my profile avatar from the default gray block to something a little more personal. I couldn't think of anything original ... http://geek.focalcurve.com/archive/2008/04/blinky-backstory/ It's been over six months since my last posting to this web log. I could offer excuses about being far too busy, and that would be true for some periods of my absence. But to be honest I haven't blogged because I haven't been motivated to do so. Oh, I've ... http://geek.focalcurve.com/archive/2008/01/2007-recap/ Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference (Beginning: From Novice to Professional), the book to which I contributed 6 chapters, is finally in transit from the printer to the warehouse, thence to be distributed to bookstores worldwide. Some time in the last 24 hours, Amazon switched the ... http://geek.focalcurve.com/archive/2007/06/beginning-finished/ Well the book is at last entering the stages of copy-editing and pre-production. One of my duties now is to review the press-ready layouts in PDF format as they become available, to make any final tweaks and edits. This requires highlighting passages and adding comments in a PDF file, which ... http://geek.focalcurve.com/archive/2007/05/cs3-hoops/ CSS Naked Day is upon us again, a festive event wherein numerous websites (mostly the personal sites of web designers) temporarily strip themselves of their stylistic vestments and reveal their content otherwise unadorned. It vividly demonstrates the separation of presentation from content; when the presentation layer is removed from the ... http://geek.focalcurve.com/archive/2007/04/naked-day-ii/