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Archive for “October, 2007”

Browser rage

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

I haven’t been doing as much web design as I’d like to recently, mostly because my job has been more focused on the librarianly side of things than on the geeky side. I’m working on a new conference subsite, though, and as such rediscovered my hatred of Internet Explorer.
IE6 was absolutely atrocious, standards-wise. There are [...]


Why I can never discuss politics

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Numerically, that’s -7.75 economically and -7.38 socially. Personally I think I’m much more left-leaning socially than economically, and the score is a bit off because there were some I was closer to a “No feelings” than “Agree” or “Disagree” (and some where I agreed slightly but knew the wording of the question suggested something else).
To [...]


Halloween costumes

Monday, October 8th, 2007

My coworker and I are looking at Halloween costumes, or at least were, and I have a question: is it possible to get one for a woman that doesn’t have “sexy,” “naughty,” “dirty,” etc. in the title? God damn, I don’t consider myself a feminist, necessarily (mostly because I don’t have the time to research [...]


You’ve got some splaining to do

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

I tried to go to Lying Media Bastards just now, to get more information about the new Radiohead album (in short: go to the Radiohead website and you can buy it, legally, for whatever you feel like paying; I paid 95p, which is ~$2, and you should all do it too so as to encourage [...]