Adeline received an iPod nano for her birthday and was afraid of scratching it. Unfortunately, the stores and shops in Strasbourg don’t have any cases or socks for nano yet. This is what we came up with instead. The buttons and wheel work fine and the screen is readable, which you unfortunately can’t see on the low-res pictures I took with my phone. I think it beats any iPod socks :).
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You might have heard about the IDN spoof thing that has been going around. In short, because of a big company called verisign messing up, you can register domain names that look like other domain names. So to make fun of them, I registered Veriѕign.com and put up a parody of the website of NeuStar, one of Verisign’s competitors. All this was supposed to stay under wraps until Monday, to give Verisign time to react. Now Joi, ICANN’s gossip queen, sent this around and word got out. Sorry verisign, I intended to give you more time to react.
I am flying over to spend the weekend with the lovely sweet Adeline, packing right now and having dinner with the canoe club in two minutes. I’ll write more about this later, including instructions on how to register your own paypal.com or slashdot.org domain.
Amusingly, that’s what FindAnISP tells me. Apparently, I used to be #43 in the top web pages for “Luxemborg” [sic], too. This is something I can tell dates and customers for IT consulting: “I single-handedly built one of the country’s top ISP’s, without even noticing!”
Thanks Frigo!
Postmodern Clog blogs about democracy in Ukraine, from the trenches.
S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible. Anyone with even a smidgen of familiarity with HTML or XHTML can look at the markup and figure out how to adapt it to their particular needs. Anyone familiar with CSS can create their own slide show theme. It’s totally simple, and it’s totally standards-driven.
If only my lecturers could use Eric Meyer’s latest toy. That would make the lecture notes far more useful.