January 25, 2005. With much sadness I’ve put my special edition key lime iBook on eBay. It’s a great little computer, and quite honestly I think it’s an awesome collector’s item. With my new iBook though, I just don’t need it anymore, and I’ve been doing my best not to hoard things I don’t need these days. Please help Kiki find a good home. Update: Kiki has been sold! She’s currently in New York where she’ll… Read more »
January 25, 2005. I’m at the end of my travels now, after spending an extra week at my girlfriend’s apartment. All in all it went remarkably well. I got a fair bit of work done and barely missed my home setup. The large screen and my Mx700 were missed a little bit, but only slightly. Last week I decided to buy Virtual PC for my iBook. I have a Windows PC at home, but I hadn’t had access to that for over a… Read more »
January 24, 2005. The first volume of Robot arrived at my door today, by way of Amazon.co.jp. It’s a compilation of short manga and illustrations by Range Murata, Shigeki Maeshima, and quite a few others. It’s entirely gorgeous, if a bit disturbing in spots. Sadly, I can barely read a word of it, as everything of consequence is in Japanese. Read more »
January 19, 2005. There are two common ways of using JavaScript in a link: <a href=“javascript:doSomething();”>Do Something</a> <a href=”#” onclick=“doSomething();”>Do Something</a> The first one is a bit ugly, since the JavaScript shows up in the status bar. More importantly, neither example will do anything at all if JavaScript isn’t available. This may not be a major concern… Read more »
January 18, 2005. Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers gives a great look into how people use screen readers in the real world. There’s a lot of good advice to be found here, for both site designers and developers of screen reader software. Thanks to Mike Davidson for pointing it out. Read more »