CSS: Separating content from presentation, second edition
This is something I should have done a while ago...
- 2.6.2004, 17.15
- File under: self promotion, book, CSS book, ISBN 159059231X
This is something I should have done a while ago...
Amidst the maelstrom of complaint about the way Apple have handled recent security problems John Gruber has complained about Apple viewing security updates as a marketing problem, in Security cannot be spun. One of his complaints was the way about the that the 10.3.4 update was announced, merrily trumpeting that it included 'recent security updates'. As he says (near the bottom of the article):
I've only had an iPod for a few months, but that's been long enough to realise a few things about it, good and bad. My department's boss, Dan Hill, wrote a very good critique of the iPod's physical design, pointing out the disjunct between the appearance of impenetrable perfection and the reality of constrained manufactured product, and praised the adaptability of the software.
Is anyone out there aware of any serious comparison of audio encoding formats (encoding, bit rate, that kind of thing) of the What Hi-Fi? persuasion? I'm only asking because I want to start playing with MusicBrainz, and it doesn't seem to understand Apple's AAC, so I should probably encode new music in something else to give myself some raw material to experiment with.
Sometimes someone knows something is utterly beyond hope, but they can't walk away. I think that Swan 1 knew that there weren't going to be any cygnets. She kept hoping, for perhaps a month after her eggs should have hatched. Gradually, as the days went by, there were fewer eggs in the nest, down from seven to four, and eventually to none. She stayed on the nest, even after we stopped seeing her partner by her side (before, he'd usually been fetching food or, resting on the bank, in a guard position between the nest and the path).
Ah, the joys of being an iPod owner. Lately my iPod has taken to hanging once every couple of days, requiring a menu/play-pause reset to bring it out of its sulk. It's also taken to bouts of extreme whimsy, jumping out of one album into another mid-song, often only managing one or two tracks before it leaps again.
Is there a visual equivalent of 'overheard'? ('Overseen' sounds daft.) Anyway, here are some poor-quality camera-phone pictures of amusing public lettering I've run across recently.
I may be an exception, but I listen to my music exclusively by leaving my iPod (and iTunes, for that matter) on random play, set to shuffle by album not track. I don't use playlists (I find the process of making a playlist quite traumatic, actually). Before iTunes I used to listen to CDs by pulling out albums and moving between them as the mood took me, and as albums which had lain unlistened to for a while caught my eye.