The new HTML Dog tutorials are great. They cover both HTML and CSS and offer beginning, intermediate, and advanced guides for each. … [Read more...] about HTML/CSS from the ground up
Courtesy of Boils & Blinding Torment…
… we have the Surviving-Your-1,000th-Viewing-With-Panache Game. Even Buffy & Angel shippers gotta love a game in which the Angel and Spike pieces are labeled "Dumbass" and "Dumbass Jr." When I have a house (and thus room for more than two players in front of the TV) … [Read more...] about Courtesy of Boils & Blinding Torment…
ThinkGeek comes through…
… for all your Christmas shopping needs. People, they sell the red Swingline stapler. Wrap it with a copy of the movie and make your friends happy. … [Read more...] about ThinkGeek comes through…
Not dead yet?
Something's up with Farscape. There was a press conference scheduled yesterday, but it got cancelled. Someone ran into Raelee Hill at a con, and she had some interesting tidbits to share. No one will say anything for certain. Ngngh. UPDATE 11/19: Rumors confirmed! Whoop! … [Read more...] about Not dead yet?
Easy events calendars
To list upcoming events without going to all the trouble of creating a separate calendar blog, you can use upcoming.org to enter your events (and find other people going to them), and include the list in your blog. As long as you don't mind using third-party tools, that is. Nifty … [Read more...] about Easy events calendars
Emese Gaal
Emese Gaal is an excellent photographer. Her blog is all about sports lately, which doesn't do much for me, but her gallery is amazing. Check out the lovely wallpaper! The Colors of San Diego gallery at Yasse is lovely. (Flip to the last page of the interview and click the link … [Read more...] about Emese Gaal
The theory of everything
Position Is Everything has two excellent new articles, Flowing and Positioning, which explains inline vs. box, absolute vs. relative, and other page flow mysteries, and Float: The Theory, which is a great title because floating is like physics; the reality is nothing at all like … [Read more...] about The theory of everything
Glitches fixed
I fixed the bottom of the page (by finding an old copy of the CSS file and replacing the corrupt one; and how it got corrupted I'll never know) and the search (it really helps when you attach an action to the form tag; sigh). If you find any other glitches, report them to your … [Read more...] about Glitches fixed
Love, your devoted authoress
The award for the funniest damn thing I've read all week goes to the Dear anonymous, homicidal, self-loathing protagonist thread at the NaNoWriMo forums, where stressed-out authors berate their protagonists for being boring, self-centered, or just there. "On second thought, I … [Read more...] about Love, your devoted authoress
Closing old comment threads and dealing with spam
Some of you may have noticed the atrocious comment spam that's been popping up here lately. I've deleted the comments as I've found them, but the spammers are finding old comment threads and flooding them with junk. When the new version of MT came out, I upgraded, but didn't do … [Read more...] about Closing old comment threads and dealing with spam
