Month: March 2005

Delightful books

A package arrived today – from Acmabooks.com. I ordered three books from them and it arrived a week earlier than expected – all in mint condition (that earns brownie points). It all started off when I got roped in as the pianist for our forthcoming company production – a musical farewell to our much-loved CEO. …

Reliving the past

While reading Lawrence Lessig‘s excellent book, Free Culture, I was reminded of an invaluable website, archive.org, which keeps records of websites past. They even have records of what my old website (version 2, designer-style) looked like. They even archived my old 404 error message. That’s a real walk down memory lane. [Additional comment: If you …

Antisocial

Nobody ever said it was going to be easy, but this time I’m really feeling the brunt of it. Giving testimony and being asked to help at Alpha just upped the pressure – don’t think I’m any ‘better’ than any one of you, because I still have my ‘down’ moments and I’m experiencing one right …

Search me

The Guardian News Blog (through Wired) mentions a new tool that rides on other search engines, looking for people’s names. Keying in my first and last name fetched two results, one of which was a correct reference to myself on Zeldman’s External page. However it got my description jumbled up with the next website listed …

Web books

I picked up three books this weekend, all web-related: Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook by Dan Cederholm Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Websites by Andrew Chak The Unusually Useful Web Book by June Cohen I was planning to get Dan Cederholm’s book for some time. It’s doing pretty well on the Amazon.com ratings. …