They were out of stock earlier this week, but they’re back in: Rod Lavers at Amazon for half-price. (These are probably the best footbag shoes ever. Incidentally, also the only pair of Adidas w/o the 3 stripes.)
Ev just announced that Google has bought Pyra.
At the Blogosphere thing right now. Enough people will be covering this (like Doc blogging while I’m talking to him).
A few notes:
- Gabe’s live blogosphere streaming went off w/o a hitch. Interesting, people outside, who couldn’t hear were using his stream to listen in. I think he’s compiling a list of bloggers that were there, if so, link will be here.
- Photo Gallery – there’s also a movie file that’s in there.
Jonah’s been collecting links at LA Blogs. Doc and Tony have some too.
Checky 0.5.3 for Mozilla, Phoenix and Netscape
Checky adds a submenu to Mozilla’s context menu that allows you to run whatever page you’re on through one of (currently) 18 different online validaton and analysis services.
This guy Ruben Fleischer has some great videos on his site. boingboing just linked to the DJ Format – We Know Something video with fursuits, but he also has a bunch of other cool videos including some great Gold Chains videos like this I Come from SF one.
This hasn’t been a very good week for me with computers. One of my RAID parititions keeled over the other day, and then yesterday, after flashing my motherboard BIOS yesterday, my system flaked after CMOS setup and would simply blank out and die. Apparently, this has been known to happen, in fact, for the BIOS I’ve been updating from revision, it’s a known problem with the A7V333 and their update tools. Of course there’s no warning from ASUS. Gee thanks, ASUS!
Fortunately, my BIOS wasn’t corrupted enough that I wasn’t able to get to the built in POST flash and reload, so I guess that’s one good thing. So, my system is back up and running (albiet running at a 100MHz bus right now), and the Promise controller which drove me to upgrade my BIOS in the first place is also running. Hmm, perhaps I should get a BIOS Savior or something just in case…
Courtesy of the ACME Heart Maker
Today was a research sort of day. Did some capturing of security resources/code that I didn’t properly record/document when I was doing coding a few months back. Also, did some searching for outputting/reflowing to multiple columns.
Since CSS3 Multi-column layout is far far away, I had to look elsewhere. IHT’s implementation popped into mind as an option, probably the most viable one. John Weir has this code available for download at smokinggun: sg_layout. What’s interesting is that it replicates the full data for each column div and then replicates and calculates offsets. It seems weird at first, but I suppose this is probably the best way to do it considering what a pain in the ass it’d be to juggle in and out text in nodes. (Noticed that he has some nice bookmarklets too)
Hey, it’s too bad multicol never caught on, huh? I’m sort of surprised how little code there is out there that can emulate that functionality. You can also sort of emulate it server-side, but since so much of it can be based on font/final rendering geometry, it can be really hard to do exactly (you can do an approximate pretty easily based on line #s of chars I suppose). Of course it doesn’t really reflow or have real flexibility, but well, them are the breaks I suppose.
- PHP/PDF multi-column layout example code
- HTML_ToPDF 2.0