Michael Jackson, the Elvis of my generation, is dead. It takes something like this to get me back to blogging after a month of being very quite and very busy. My b/f woke me up last night to tell me that Michael Jackson is dead. He never dares wake me up, especially when I’ve had a rough day and really need to sleep. It takes something like this for him to disregard the fact that I’m sleeping and wake me to impart the news. Every single person on this planet has an opinion about…...
Tags: 2009 - michael jackson - loose thoughts
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I got this email from twitter earlier that “Driftube Team (driftube) is now following your updates on Twitter.” Naturally I checked out their profile to see who they are, and from there on their webpage [no link deserved]. Sad and curious geek that I am, I viewed the source [cos that’s what I do, sue me!] only to see at the bottom of the page this: <!-- Mirrored from dialedtone.com/ by HTTrack Website Copier/3.x…...
Tags: 2009 - design - plagiarism - loose talk - pissed off
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Contact forms are an integral part of any website, whether it’s a blog, an e-shop or a simple brochure site. They give your audience a voice and a way to get back to you, they can provide valuable feedback and open up interesting discussions. It’s nice to open the door to people and listen to what they have to say about you, your service or product. By giving a voice to your audience at the same time you open up your “ears” to the heaps of spam bots in the internets.…...
Tags: 2009 - RoR - recaptcha - validation
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I’ve been meaning to blog on a few other things over the last week and some topics are already drafted. However today the only topic worth blogging about is my mom, my mother, my ma, my mommy, cause it’s mother’s day and she is and has been the most important person in my life. My mom is my hero, my idol, my motivation and to be honest the world “love” doesn’t even come close to describing how I feel for her. Born in the late fourties, mommy V. has lived…...
After a very long time in my old clothes [skin] I decided to change the way this website looks and feels as well as some of the content. This change had been brewing for a while now. Since the beginning of the year I started experimenting with different ideas, but like it always happens when I spend too much time on something, by the time I implemented most of these ideas I was pretty bored with the whole look and feel of the “new site”. Being your own client always sucks, cause you…...
Tags: 2009 - redesign - site changelog
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Follow me on twitterI have a dream that all my websites will one day exist in a Web where they will not be judged by how they look and behave in each browser, because all browsers will follow the same standards and display them the same.
This is my hope. With this faith in Web Standards and Accessibility for all people and devices we will be able to make a better Web. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of the browsers to a beautiful symphony of design, functionality and content. With this faith we will be able to work better, to play better, to struggle less, knowing that all devices will treat our work equally & with respect.
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