Humbled by CSS

Posted by banane on April 29th, 2008 — in technology

I’ve been putting in some long hours working on Annaboka (feel free to log in, check it out, give me feedback! anna-at-annaboka.com) and I’ve come full circle on one of my least favorite forms of self-knowledge, realizing you didn’t know what you didn’t know. I’ve been cruising around with a 1998 version of web engineering, [...]

Talking to My Splogger

Posted by banane on April 26th, 2008 — in about writing, technology

So, mimickry is the sincerest form of flattery. Thursday, a man in San Diego copied my workblog and called it his own. He called me today (Saturday)- I had wanted him to call me if anything was unclear about my request, essentially to cease and desist use of my writing on his servers. He explained [...]

Spring Cleaning, cont.

Posted by banane on April 24th, 2008 — in Uncategorized

I got an allerga-cold, the allergies that devolve into a full blown cold, and the culprit, I believe rightly or wrongly, is dust. I can pretty much map directly exposure to large areas of dust (dive bar last week, Library book fair last year, cleaning out garage last spring…) to these alergacolds. The great thing [...]

Spring Cleaning

Posted by banane on April 21st, 2008 — in north beach, nostalgia, technology

For me, it meant the low tech solution of plain old soap, water, a rag and a lot of elbow grease to wipe down the white (!) railing on my balcony that had collected tons of SF city grime. Then the high tech solution of amping my wi-fi to 5gHz and stop leaching off of [...]

Movies

Posted by banane on April 13th, 2008 — in local color, movies, north beach

I added 3 iMovies to this site- all local color kind of SF, documentary-style things. Check them out. The 1-minute ones are more “moving pictures” as in studies in neat stills, and sounds. The cab ride is a kind of snapshot of going through town, to music. More movies are at video page on this [...]

gridswap & mornings

Posted by banane on April 12th, 2008 — in fitness, local color, nostalgia, technology

I’ve been working for a long time on: gridswap. I took this script: drag & drop from the god of all things DHTML and UI: Walter Zorn! My goal was to get people to be able to pick up and drop books from month to month in a yearly calendar. The complexity is that the [...]

t-shirts

Posted by banane on April 10th, 2008 — in Uncategorized

God I love’em. What says it better than a t-shirt? Oh wait. A bumper sticker.

Year End

Posted by banane on April 6th, 2008 — in Uncategorized

I haven’t really felt like blogging lately because I’ve been overwhelmingly busy with paid work & unpaid work (annaboka.com). I write pieces and then don’t go into depth, and end up deleting them. This goes in waves- at some point I’ll come back to feeling expressive. OK I was over that in a nanosecond. Overheard [...]