on the music front:
Four Tet “Rounds”. This is a pretty great album, “Unspoken” is an amazing track, It took me a few listens on the whole album, but the more I listen to it the better it gets….
also still frequently running in my itunes is the new Iron & Wine. This album is just an excellent departure from the manic pace of nyc or [insert your crazy town here].
on the book front:
Dan Cederholm’s Web Standards Solutions is a really nice book. Its great to have a really large copy of SimpleBits in your hands to study, mark up and get cappuccino stains on, whoops I wasn’t planning on saying what happened at the starbucks in barnes & noble….err.. yeah…..looks over shoulder…
But seriously, its a great practical in the mud and trenches approach to real day projects furthering the standards/usability cause from one of the leaders in the industry…
So… the other day a friend of mine and I were having some shop talk about xhtml and css. We were doing some site testing and came across Jeffrey Zeldmans- Zeldman.com in Internet Explorer 5 on the pc. I hadn’t even thought about it as I’m a mac user and specifically a Firefox advocate. So i’m usually seeing his site and alistapart in Firefox. Well what we found was kind of disheartening… I think the css image links aren’t showing up because of how IE5 pc handles text-indent.. I was having this problem as well with my site header image not showing up in IE5 pc unless I used a span with a display property of none. I’m sure this is not news to Zeldman. The thing thats hard for me is that I’ve learned so much from the man and on a bit more personal note I’ve recommended him for THE standards based coding example and sent his link to some pc friends of mine who I know are using IE5. At the time I hadn’t even seen his site in IE5. Just makes for a bit of embarrassment when they say that the site is messed up, after trying to persuade them to use standards in their work. This tends to enforce the opinion some of them have already that standards and css aren’t applicable to real life projects. Which I think Zeldman thoroughly proved that they are in his book. On the other hand the man is expecting a wonderful baby and is busy with things more important than websites, that I can completely understand, and probably has a ton of stuff on his plate. Maybe in between all that he can hook it up proper.
