After reading and reviewing Tim Berners-Lee’s book, Weaving the Web, CSS guru Tantek Çelik picks out some memorable quotes, comments on those quotes, and in doing so creates a few of his own.

it is usually better to at least consider current solutions to a problem before attempting something new (simply out of the principle of laziness, also known as efficiency).

And further (which may need to be read twice)…

There is almost always a better solution. The real question is, is the incremental advantage of such a better solution over a current solution worth the necessary effort to develop the better solution and the cost of dealing with the legacy of the present?

Ouch

Every blog and it’s brother is posting about the revelation regarding IKEA product names. Funny, I never gave it a thought before, and don’t now.

Our servers are named for cartoon characters, if anyone’s interested.

Looking for a name and tagline for your shiny new design/interactive/media firm? Give New Media Company Generator a whack at it.

Helped along by the CSS-Discuss mailing list, the css-discuss wiki has a ton of good information on CSS usage, links and such. Oh, and you may have caught the fact that it’s a wiki, which is exactly the type of thing that works for sites like that.

Doug at Stopdesign does a great job of explaining absolute and relative positioning.

Here’s a nice collection of techniques using css to create all sorts of different unordered lists.

While looking for a better way to do CSS image rollovers today, I ran across this. Clever. Going to try it on a current project tomorrow to see if the technique is as sweet as it looks.

I bought a little flatbed scanner today and just for fun started going through some of the stacks of old photos lying around. Here’s one taken of the bulletin board in my bedroom, circa 1982. That’s the year I graduated from high school. It’s also the year I stopped drawing.

I have a feeling that I’m going to have to read this soon.