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CSS Love Song

A lot of things are changing on the internet. One of the great advancements for the web designer, has been the development of CSS. Andrew Rothman share his emotions about it in his new song, Hands to Heaven Boag. Enjoy. (via SimpleBits)

(PS – This song will probably not mean anything to you if you’re not a web designer or developer.)

Position Networking

Ok, so we’ve all heard of social networking, now it’s time to embrace position networking.

Position networking is a new buzzword I made up to describe the services of websites like spotcovr.com, thanks to mapping APIs like the Google Maps API. Go ahead and check it out. And while you’re at, check out our first exploitation of the Google Maps API.

GMail says “GRRR!”

I received the alert message below after clicking a link in an email I was reading this morning in my GMail account. This made me laugh. I hope it makes you laugh too.

GMail says

Marry Me, Netflix

I have been using Netflix for about 18 months now. I love it. I love the suggestions feature, I love the AJAX rating feature, I love the Queue, I love the wide selection of independent features, I love the envelope that the movies come in. I love just about everything about Netflix. If Netflix were a woman (and I wasn’t already married to the greatest woman on earth and Netflix shared my moral and spiritual philosophies) I would marry Netflix. The only thing I don’t love about Netflix is the long wait for super-popular new releases. Sometimes this tempts me to cheat on Netflix. At these times I actually find myself at the local Blockbuster shelling out half of my monthly Netflix subscription fee for a single movie. My latest fling with Madame B inspired this list of things that I miss about her:

  • Getting a movie right when I have the urge to watch it
  • Sticky movie boxes
  • Spending an hour looking for a movie (and finally settling on a movie I had at one time or another vowed never to watch)
  • Spending an hour trying to match B Movie boxes to the films that their designs were stolen from
  • Confusing due dates
The IE Doubled Float-Margin Bug

Thanks to PositioningIsEverything.net, I have found a fix for a strange problem I encountered in Internet Explorer while creating a float-based column layout.