Stolen Chicken have a great selection of cards and craziness for everyone to see; here I have a copy of their ‘verdue’ card which is, in my opinion, astonishingly beautiful, but we’ve established my obsession with cards already. You either take my word for it because I know so much about it, or you think that I’m nuts and not to be trusted. Either way, Stolen Chicken, it’s hot.
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I know there’s a bug in my code for this site, or at least there will be until tonight. I don’t often get to look at the way the site renders from a Windows machine because I write from an Apple Mac where the Safari browser renders pages correctly instead of in some crazy messed up way according to some unknown laws of the universe.
The problem is, when I’m not at my computer as normal, can’t edit the files that I need to change because they’re only writable from an FTP client, a way of uploading files directly to a server. I need my FTP client and passwords and settings in order to do this, a situation that means that when I identify problems with the code, I can’t actually edit them from the Windows machine and see the intended results because I can’t change the file.
There’s a bank of white space at the top of the page when viewed in Windows’ Internet Explorer, whilst in everything else the site has a beautiful broad sweep of light blue. Not so for half of my readers, for they get the ugly version. I’ve just identified the solution (I think!) but will have to hold it in my head, nagging me all day, before I can get back to my desk and correct it.
This is maddening.
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From the website of the Seattle Coffeehouse Victorla’s coffee roaster comes the photoset of latte images: designs and swirls and creations from coffee.
The site was in the news yesterday because they’d decided to shut down their free wireless internet over the weekends. Laptop users had turned the place into a library by taking over all the seats for hours on end, not buying drinks, and stifling discussion and human interaction between members of the public, a quality of the shop that had been previously very highly valued.
Free wi-fi is electronic cocaine.
Every staff meeting we had, the topic of wi-fi became the most heated. The cafe had become quieter, the tip jar was getting lighter and a small minority of difficult and demanding users were making things unpleasant for the baristas. At the same time, a great number of our favorite regulars were good citizens and managed to use the wifi at length while still being friendly, sharing tables, buying stuff, flirting with our staff, etc.. Pulling the plug wouldn’t be an easy option.
But as is being reported all over the globe, Victrola is pulling the plug on weekends. If this past weekend was any indication, its the right move. The place was noisy and jumpin’ – people actually conversed! A few customers were in painful enough withdrawal that they stayed home, finding time to send email about how upsetting it was. But the overwhelming response was positive.
tonx.org post and discussion
Wi-Fi Networking news
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From Slashdot comes the news that w00t, the hacker and gamer term used as an exclamation of joy/elation/bravado at a great frag, is currently third in Marriam-Webster’s competition to find the public’s favorite word not included in the dictionary.
I think it’s a perfect candidate. And the slashdot forum’s a laugh too:
Not in the dictionary?
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