QOTD 8/28/08
Don’t do browser makers jobs for them. If a site breaks due to bugs in their software - leave it be. It’s their problem, not yours.
August 28, 2008 Quotes
Get Out the Vote!
Nope, not that one…
The Lights Out made it to the finals in Harpoon UFO’s Best Unfiltered Band Search and if they win, they’ll get all sorts of great promo opportunities. That in a time when good indie bands are hard to come by thanks to mega labels cranking out superb wankery that seems to jive with American CrapholeIdol.
August 25, 2008 Life
Giants iCal Feed Updated
I’ve updated my NY Giants iCal feed for the 2008 season:
http://robmaurizi.com/extra/giants_schedule.php
You can either copy the link and subscribe to it in an iCal-capable calendar application, or just click on it to save the .ics file and load it into your calendar. The latter is required if you’re using MobileMe and want the schedule on your iPhone (like me).
Wither IE6!
Over on CSS Tricks, there’s a discussion brewing about why people still use IE6. Chris breaks it down into four different user types: Those who have to due to IT policies; those whose computers don’t support IE7 (although they would probably support Firefox); those who have actually avoided upgrading to IE7 and who may actually prefer IE6; and those who don’t know any better and for whatever reason haven’t had their system auto-upgraded yet.
July 16, 2008 Web
iPhone apps I’ll most likely download on day one
Below is a list of apps that I’ll almost definitely download on day one of the iPhone App Store.
Read more…
June 16, 2008 Apple
Data Plan, eh?
AT&T published their iPhone 3G landing page today. For the most part, it doesn’t say much that we didn’t already know. However, there are two lines that bother me a bit:
- Add a Consumer Data Plan for iPhone 3G to a qualified voice plan for $30 per month.
- Add an Enterprise Data Plan for iPhone 3G to a qualified voice plan for $45 per month.
June 12, 2008 Apple
Core Strength
In the months, weeks and days leading up to WWDC this year, all of the talk was on the iPhone. We’d heard that it would be both thicker and thinner. We’d heard about 3G. We’d heard about GPS.
We’d hoped for a better camera. We’d hoped for video. We’d hoped for a front-mounted camera to support video conferencing.
Then, much more recently, we began to hear about this new OSX 10.6, dubbed Snow Leopard. Interesting choice of names since we’re already using Leopard.
June 11, 2008 Apple
Renovation Complete
Well, well, here we are. Welcome to the newly re-designed robmaurizi.com. What do you think?
As you can see, I’ve opted for the static homepage as opposed to the blog-flavored listing of recent posts. All of the photos on the home and contact pages are fed from Flickr. The about page has been given a slight makeover in the last.fm feed and the addition of Rob Miller’s cool Now Reading plugin. And regular readers may have noticed an uptick in their RSS spam with the new addition of the del.icio.us daily links posting.
So, feel free to bounce around, check things out, and let me know what you think. The old favorites like the story about Olive eating the bunny and the piece about creating a tabbed interface with DLs using CSS and jQuery haven’t moved.
I hope (I know I say this all the time) to add more here more frequently, but you all know how hard it is to do that.
Fare Thee Well
Today was Rob Maurizi’s last day at Fry. He wishes you well in your future endeavors.
Should you need to schedule lunch or drinks or discuss the merits of web standards and all things Apple, please email him at xxx@xxx.xxx or call xxx-xxx-xxxx.
See y’all at Blaggards.
Wear Fake News!
Perusing the Interwebs and 37Signals’ SVN blog pointed me toward the CNN Headline T-shirt store, with a note about how you could hijack the URL to make your own funny headlines.
Well, here’s a bookmarklet to make life easier for you:
Drag the link above into your browser’s toolbar and have fun making wacky t-shirts. Not sure if you can buy them, but they make fun links.
Enjoy!
Update: Looks like CNN fixed their glitch and made more use of the hash and datestamp to tell if a headline was real or not. Oh well.
April 21, 2008 Web