I almost forgot the bird-feeder update this morning. I’ve seen the following birds since I started filling the feeder: sparrows, swallows, pigeons, a male cardinal, what I think was a dove, but might have been a smaller pigeon, and a blackbird. The Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter has been helpful in figuring out what’s what, especially since the birds all have their winter colors, which are much duller than the summer ones, so they all look either brown or grey to me, but I probably need a better bird-finder, since that one is most useful when you already have a clue, and I’ve just about run out of clues for identifying the birds out there.
I’m also thinking that maybe I should get a standalone web-cam of some sort that I could point at the feeder. There’s a fair amount of activity out there during the day, and it might be something people would want to look at. Then again, most of the standalone ones I looked at were a couple hundred dollars. Maybe I’ll just add one to my wish-list and see what happens.
- CSS Debugger, Redux has a handy favelet that works nicely in Safari. That’s a Very Good Thing. [holy schmoly]
- While I was poking around CodePoetry, I found Adam’s entry on Drop Caps, and spent a few minutes this morning playing around with them. I’m not going to stick them on all the old entries (one-liners look particularly funky), but I may put them on new stuff. If you feel strongly one way or another about them, drop me a line.
- The CSS Layout-o-matic is another tool that might prove useful. It’s not stunning or anything, but it’s easier than trying to remember which word I’m forgetting in the magic incantation to get the layout I want. [codepoetry]
- The ADHOC / MacHack19 website is getting closer to what I consider ready for public consumption. Sadly, the press releases for the site were sent out before the update I did last night, so the site looked gunky for the first visitors. Thankfully, Steph saved my bacon by slamming out a nice design in a hurry for me. There’s still some tweaking I’ll need to do, but it looks like a real website now.
- Qwest DSL offer gets “naked”, as they announce that you’ll be able to buy a DSL-only line for $33/month if you use your own ISP. Now I need to figure out if I can transfer the number I’ve had for the past 8 years to an existing cellphone. [press-patch]
- About a half-year ago, Public Nuisance talked about how we should protect the sanctity of marriage. It seems worthwhile to point it out now. It’s almost enough to make a guy long for that Real Old Time Religion.