BlissfullyAware is the online home of Web Designer, Joshua Lane. It features his thoughts, ramblings and (more often than necessary) some of his photos.
I’m thrilled to be showing off my new HappyWebby self. I can’t thank Varick and the ngen works crew enough for the honor. Just to be included with the other webbies is awesome, but to know that these superstars liked my work enough to vote for me is just off-the-charts.
More on this later but just for the moment think of this when you hear her concession speech tonight: they lowered expectations and will talk about African-American voter margin, they will marginalize and diminish the overall worth of the black vote. Thinks of that, they are going to make it sound like an Obama win is less valuable in South Carolina than elsewhere because of race. That’s abhorrent and I will guarantee that is the spin.
Here’s the key indicator that Twitter is different - it sucks. It really does, look at the list:
1) Unreliable - site is slow to moderately unusable to abhorrent almost all hours of the day. How slow is it? Bush can get through two whole Family Circus comics before the damn page paints.
2) Clients are the victim of API suckage - Twitterific and Snitter are both well designed, useful tools that live precariously at the edge of completely worthless and “Did that tweet ever get sent?” because they must rely on the service issues of the Twitter API
3) Web Interface is mean to me. It seems to find joy in never remembering my login. Ever.
4) SMS seems to kill my iPhone. I turned the flood gates on earlier in the week so I could find out how Merlin Mann likes his waffles no matter where I am, but that SMS deluge leaves my iPhone groggy, tired and makes the speaker cackle like a Christmas Witch. I ultimately had to bail on that.
So after all of this, I can’t seem to let it go. It’s a useful, verging on necessity at this point. And after all of this hassle I still come back to it. Just think of what it would be like if it worked well, for real. That would be cool, until then back to waiting for the damn pages to load and wishing Twitterific would stop filling up with my tweets and show me what other people are saying.
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Awesome parody of Tom Cruise’s maniacal L Ron Romp. He’s more than brave for doing this, considering Scientologists are likely triangulating thought-lasers on his beach shack as we speak.
Do you want to create fancy headings without rendering each heading with Photoshop? Here is a simple CSS trick to show you how to create gradient text effect with a PNG image (pure CSS, no Javascript or Flash). All you need is an empty tag in the heading and apply the background image overlay using the CSS position:absolute property. This trick has been tested on most browsers: Firefox, Safari, Opera, and even Internet Explorer 6. Continue to read this article to find out how.
