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Tech Notes

Writings on technology
Cascading Style Sheets Considered Harmful? ··· Short Notes ··· Minimal HTML ··· A cranky Web Design Quiz ··· Raising the Bar on Email ··· A Frustrating Error Message ··· CSS Tip #1: A Navigation Bar that Degrades Gracefully ··· CSS Tip #2: Making Your Site Modifiable ··· The Evolution of an Antispam Strategy ··· CSS Hack: Floated Sidebar ··· Creating a Backup Strategy ··· Modifying Firefox's Context Menus ··· Mac Gotchas (for a Windows Person)

Patterns for Personal Web Site Design

Some patterns to guide the creation of rich personal Web sites. Not yet a pattern language, though it might become one someday.

Notebooks

Some thoughts, stories and experiences jotted in a Notebook
Old notebooks: 2007 ··· 2006 ··· 2005 ··· 2004 ··· 2003 ··· 2002 ··· 2001 ··· 2000 ··· 1999 ··· 1998 ··· 1997 ··· 1996

Bulletins

Fresh once or twice a year

From Oregon

• Volume 13: Winter 2008
  Featuring:
  • Meeting One of my Heroes

• Volume 12: Winter 2007 ··· Not much of anything, really
• Volume 11: Winter 2006 ··· A Stupid Itinerary
• Volume 10: Winter 2005 ··· Catastrophe Geology
• Volume 9: Summer 2004 ··· Cinder Cones & Rotting CDs
• Volume 8: Winter 2003 ··· DiffyGee
• Volume 7: Winter 2002 ··· Work & Health
• Volume 6: Fall 2001 ··· Accidental Fashion Models
• Volume 5, Issue 2: Fall 2000 ··· CF Cleanout
• Volume 5, Issue 1: Spring 2000 ··· San Francisco
• Volume 4: Summer 1999 ··· Hospital Fun
• Volume 3, Issue 2: Fall 1998 ··· Across the Southwest
• Volume 3, Issue 1: Spring 1998 ··· Travel: the East
• Volume 2: Summer 1997 ··· Stories from 1997
• Volume 1, Issue 2: Spring 1996 ··· Settling In
• Volume 1, Issue 1: Winter 1996 ··· A Stormy Arrival in Oregon

Life in Tennessee

• Volume II, Issue 3: Winter 1995 ··· The Divine Comedy
• Volume II, Issue 2: Fall 1995 ··· Tired
• Volume II, Issue 1: Summer 1995 ··· Across the Continent!
• Volume I, Issue 2: December 1994 ··· The Trip to Atlanta
• Volume I, Issue 1: September 1994 ··· An Introduction to Tennessee Life

Rants

"We are dumb all over" -- Frank Zappa
Angels ··· Astrology ··· BSE vs. HIV ··· Comic Strips ··· Copyright ··· Credit ··· Cryptography and the U.S. government ··· Disney ··· The "Defense of Marriage" Act ··· Grammar ··· HTML ··· Infertile whiners (and response) ··· King Features Syndicate ··· The Music Industry ··· Olympics^TM ··· Orson Scott Card ··· Overpopulation ··· Overpopulation, again ··· Pioneer's plaque ··· Privacy ··· Rantlets ··· Soy ··· Star Trek ··· Web design

Poetry

• Translating a poem (in detail)
• Doggerel for gut bacteria
• A sonnet on the Reluctant Giving of Advice

Stories

A smattering of fiction

• The Yogurt Incident
• Actuary Sketch
• A very short story

Romer v. Evans

A federal case about equal rights

• U.S. Supreme Court opinion and dissent in the case of Colorado's Amendment 2
• My rebuttal to Justice Scalia's dissent
• Rebuttal summary

Miscellaneous

• Good Advices: practical advice learned the hard way
• A quick primer on how to lie
• What are rants without raves?
• Why writing SF is difficult
• Correspondence indices: 1999, 2002-2003
• A list of words banned from this site
• A few techniques for simplifying life
• Everyware: a noncanonic list of -ware terms

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