Dan Rubin's SuperfluousBanter

Monday Update

Post­ing has been light, so to hold you over until a longer, more detailed post appears, here’s a list of what I’ve been up to, and some things still on the draw­ing board:

• Sub­mit­ted chap­ter for CSS: Sep­a­rat­ing Con­tent from Pre­sen­ta­tion.
• One con­test doing well (The Old Tech­nol­ogy Give­away), the other (Side­bar Redesign), not so well.
• Meet­ings and phone calls with clients and prospects, some want work for no money, oth­ers want to pay, just not enough. One client is stalling the project inten­tion­ally, due to inter­nal power strug­gles; we may lose a lot of money because of their prob­lems, which are unre­lated to our project.
• New sec­tions are being devel­oped for Super­flu­ous­Ban­ter: Super­flu­ous­Pho­tos and Super­flu­ous­Code (a photo gallery and code repos­i­tory, respectively).
• Design for the new sec­tions has inspired explo­ration of an entire redesign for the site.
• SoBig is fill­ing my mail­box with SPAM and bounces from peo­ple who think I spammed them (note: It wasn’t me. First, I’m on a Mac, which are imper­vi­ous to most of these Microsoft-related viruses, and sec­ond, the emails you think came from me were actu­ally sent by the virus, which can spoof the “From” header in an email).
• Blaster is not caus­ing me (or my office) any prob­lems whatsoever.
• Today will involve many phone calls, none of which will be prof­itable, but all of which must be taken care of.
• I go to the den­tist tomor­row for a cleaning–they won’t be happy with me.
• I tweaked some code on web-graphics.com: Posts now dis­play the Mov­able­Type Author­Nick­name field if it has been filled out by an author, oth­er­wise the Author­Name will be shown. I did this so my posts would show up as some­thing other than Dan­Rubin (Dan R. is my cur­rent choice). It also allows more flex­i­bil­ity for the other authors, since they are no longer rel­e­gated to post­ing under their login name.
• I’m play­ing around with my own take on CSS tabs–two of them, actu­ally. One is used in my chap­ter for CSS: Sep­a­rat­ing Con­tent from Pre­sen­ta­tion, the other is a vari­a­tion on Dan Cederholm’s Mini-Tab Shapes, putting the images above the text, so they are not hid­den by the mouse pointer (this issue has irked me about this sort of link high­light­ing for quite a while).
• This is a short work week, as I am head­ing up the state for a relax­ing Labor Day week­end with a few hun­dred other Bar­ber­shop and a cap­pella music enthu­si­asts. By the pool, on the golf course, or in the pent­house suite, I expect to be singing the entire week­end, and will spend qual­ity time with friends I only get to see in per­son two or three times a year.
• Speak­ing of Bar­ber­shop, I’m almost fin­ished redesign­ing my quartet’s web site. No link yet, I’ll post when it’s finished.

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Monday, August 25th, 2003.

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