Archive for February, 2005

Pink Cadillac

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

This post doesn’t have much to do with cars or songs or movies. Actually, it’s just here to commemorate a new layout here at 1128. After a weekend of slaving over a hot CSS sheet and WordPress template pages… well, this is what we’ve got. I can only hope it will make […]

New Jogging Partner

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

On my drive home Monday - 100% humidity, 50 degrees - I felt a sudden conviction to go jogging. “You know what would be great, self?” I asked myself. “An iPod Shuffle. That would make the time pass like that,” I said, snapping my fingers to emphasize that. I ordered one […]

Phil’s Sweater

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

I hate to do this. I’ve shoved it out of my mind for about a week now and it keeps coming back (I should probably just unsubscribe in my RSS reader…): I’m tired of reading the illustrious Philip Greenspun’s weblog. I’m tired of entries, like today’s, that start out: Over breakfast at a favorite […]

Welcome to WordPress 1.5

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

WordPress, the software we run here at 1128 to generate this beautiful blog, has quietly (via) released version 1.5. In honor of that, I have upgraded 1128 to the new software with reckless abandon. My congrats to the WordPress team (who you should donate to, as I have) - the upgrade.php script ran (apparently) […]

Please Use the Most Up-To-Date Dead Software

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

I wrote to my bank because their bill payment system uses superfluous JavaScript to “enhance” the user experience. The end result is that the forms to pay bills don’t work with other browsers. I wrote to suggest that they consider simplifying their interface a bit, or at least providing an option. Their […]