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April 2005 - Posts

• My Wishes for IE7

  IEBlog has a few details on IE7 beta 1 . There isn't much info at all, but the PNG support is going to please a lot of people. The CSS bugs they mention are royal PITAs, so the fixes are definitely welcome. But... just in case anyone on the IE team is Read More... Posted Saturday, April 23, 2005 3:26 PM by sjh | 5 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General

• Mobile Tech Links

  A few Mobile Tech links of notice today: PVRBlog: Google Video (Beta) Upload Program launches Gizmodo: Google Video Upload Service Beta If you don't understand why I am including Google's video service as a Mobile link, you should think a little harder. Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:20 PM by sjh | 1 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Mobile

• What I've Been Doing Lately: Mobile Web Development

  My first 30 days at the new job were over Sunday and man it's been a blur. For last couple months I've been working on a mobile web site, something I haven't done much of in years. And when I last looked at mobile web dev, it was in the sad WAP days of Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:24 PM by sjh | 0 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Tools & Reference, Mobile

• The Post That Wouldn't Die: Year 2

  I commented about it last year, so I guess I should mention it again... Over 2 years after he posted it, Luke's "I am a highly gifted visionary philosopher" post is still recieving comments. Wow. Read More... Posted Monday, April 11, 2005 7:33 PM by sjh | 2 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General

• Please Keep Scripting.com Off Google News

  Russell Beattie has a stalker that has recently branched out and is setting his sites on Jason Calacanis as well, yet the stalker has a site that appears to be a news site (by aping the beauty of the Register) and is somehow part of the news pool for news.google.com. Hoping to let one bad apple spoil the barrell, Scoble thinks this mistake should lead to letting some very non-news.google.com-worthy blogs into that news pool. I hope not. [continued inside] Read More... Posted Sunday, April 10, 2005 11:39 AM by sjh | 3 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General

• Planning Stuctural HTML for CSS

  Web developers and designers that struggle with learning CSS usually cause themselves more trouble than necessary because they try to start applying CSS to a site they've already created with Dreamweaver (or their crutch of choice) and run into so many Read More... Posted Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:34 AM by sjh | 0 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Tools & Reference

• Travel the World Via maps.google.com

  I was SPIMMED (page-slapped, actually) by a friend today with a link to this blog: Google Sightseeing , a new blog with links to the satellite maps on http://maps.google.com that point out the coolest of the images they offer. Read More... Posted Friday, April 08, 2005 8:34 PM by sjh | 0 Comments Filed under: General

• MSN Messenger Outsmarts Me... And Gets Uninstalled

  While trying to log in to MSN Messenger this evening, I was given a message that said there is a newer version and that I had to upgrade to continue. Users of MSN Messenger know this message, it happens a few times a year. But when I clicked "ok", something Read More... Posted Thursday, April 07, 2005 8:47 PM by sjh | 3 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Tools & Reference