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Web Design and Usability Guidelines

Published around lunchtime of November 30, 2003

The US Government’s Research–Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines should be a good supplement to yesterday’s post on Patterns for Personal Web Sites.

1 Reply· 2003.11.30

Page and Brin’s Blog

Published around lunchtime of November 30, 2003

Larry Page and Sergey Brin of the–site–called–google now have their own weblog. It actually is several months old, but with posts only every few weeks. Fun, straightforward thoughts from the creators of the web’s most famous search engine. They don’t have permalinks yet, so just check out the post for February 15, 2003.

1 Reply· 2003.11.30

Patterns for Personal Web Sites

Published mid-morning of November 29, 2003

Patterns for Personal Web Sites is a useful resource that would greatly benefit this site as well as countless other personal sites that fail to adhere to some simple guidelines for increased usability.

Some site changes: the weblog archives is now available as a separate page, and I managed to squeeze in some hacks to my CMS to produce descriptive permalinks, that take advantage of Apache’s mod_rewrite.

· 2003.11.29

Nice style

Published just before lunchtime of November 27, 2003

Piotr Kowalik’s photos have a very interesting style.

· 2003.11.27

Finger–lickin’ CSS goodness

Published terribly early in the morning of November 17, 2003

This is cereal is another exceptional design at the CSS Zen Garden, a site I have mentioned before and continues to provide web designers worldwide a regular source of CSS–based inspirations. (via Binary Bonsai)

· 2003.11.17

Remember the Alamo

Published mid-afternoon of November 16, 2003

In a great show of boxing power, fellow Filipino Manny Pacquiao defeated Mexico’s Marco Antonio Barrera in the 11th round of their non–title featherweight bout at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The Filipino southpaw dominated his opponent in what was supposed to be an interesting fight in Barrera’s favor, with odds–makers pegging the Mexican as the 4–1 favorite.

An accidental trip saw Pacquiao fall down early in the first round, but the fight referee gave a mandatory 8–count, a decision that was questioned by several commentators. Pacquiao recovered and displayed great punching power and speed, which resulted in a knockdown in the third round after a series of strong punches to the Mexican’s head and body. After several rounds, Barrera showed signs of clear weakness as he struggled with bleeding cuts on both sides of his face. The 11th round was finally the last for the Mexican after failing to dodge several strong punches and combinations, which resulted in his corner throwing in the towel to stop the fight.

As of this writing, only ABS–CBNNEWS.COM has other details on the fight, which mentions that one of the three judges had Barrera leading 97–89, with the other two in favor of Pacquiao to a score of 97–90. A very interesting scoreline for what was clearly a losing effort from Barrera.
A proud day for Filipinos worldwide.

1 Reply· 2003.11.16

Photos: Little Racers

Published in the wee hours of November 14, 2003

A few weeks ago, my brother and I saw some cool miniature formula racers at McDonald’s. We got two Happy Meals right away, and took photos of the little cars a few days later.

· 2003.11.14

A different look at basketball

Published terribly early in the morning of November 11, 2003

Emese Gaal takes some refreshing basketball photos and lets us see it differently. More of the same set at her gallery.

· 2003.11.11

IE 5 + 5.5 + 6

Published in the wee hours of November 7, 2003

sidesh0w notes someone’s discovery on how to run IE 5, 5.5 and 6 side–by–side on Windows XP. And this is without the cumbersome use of multiple partitions and operating systems. Not even VMWare. This is a godsend for web designers around the world.

To keep things simple, skyzyx.com zips the necessary files and shares them with everyone.

1 Reply· 2003.11.07

Why?

Published in the wee hours of November 7, 2003

A possible explanation why The Matrix Revolutions turned out to be the biggest disappointment in recent memory. But throw away your worries, the good guys will save the day.

· 2003.11.07

There is no revolution

Published terribly early in the morning of November 6, 2003

Or something to that effect. My band was supposed to have a jam for a gig tonight but had to wait for our bassist, so we decided to catch the very first screening of The Matrix Revolutions. We barely made it to the 10pm screening, and we had to sit by the aisle/stairs because all seats were taken. Only to feel so cheated. Wasn’t it clear that Neo’s destiny was to save the human race from the matrix? I guess everything that has a beginning has an end.

Some thoughts from all over.

1 Reply· 2003.11.06

photo–montage

Published in the wee hours of November 4, 2003

1976 design does some yard resurfacing and comes up with this nice photo–montage.

· 2003.11.04

Photos: Nuts & Bolts

Published terribly early in the morning of November 1, 2003

Nuts & Bolts is another old set of pictures, now available on this site. More sets/albums at the my photos section.

· 2003.11.01