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July 2002

Morituri te salutamus

Tomorrow is the big death day. I've even made my funeral arrangements. Come pay your respects.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/275497.html


I am not amused

Somewhat like the "You must be this tall to ride this ride" signs at amusement parks they should have "You may not ride if your ass is this wide" signs on buses.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/274692.html


Late Night Experiments

I got home from seeing "Reign of Fire" around midnight and the sky caught my eye. I decided to try some experiments with my camera:


Awaiting Client Approval

One of my clients wanted a photogallery so I took the opportunity to play around with chromeless frames. I'm rather pleased with the way it came out. Just click on any of the links in the bulleted list and then navigate around. I've got the popup windows adapting to the size of the image, and with the chromeless windows everything ties together so much better than standard pop-ups.

Of course you can't do chromeless in Netscape, but it all degrades nicely, and the rest of the website degrades gracefully right down to text-only browsers and WAP devices. While at first blush this site seems very simple I've in fact really been been pushing how I can use the technology to get a really solid design under a wide range of condition.

And, as a diversion I whipped this up


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