An exhibition basketball game at the University of Washington on Saturday demonstrated how the game would be different if the rims were eleven feet tall instead of the usual ten. Sounds like it opens up inside play, which I’m all for.
Hixie: The CSS working group is irrelevant. I agree with everything he says — someone needs to light a fire under the CSSWG’s ass, but I don’t know who has the necessary time, inclination, and expertise.
Belated note: in case you missed my Refresh Austin talk about Prototype/Scriptaculous, you can experience the slides without having to listen to my stammering commentary.
I had a Pistons fan named Duane e‐mail me, “Watching LeBron’s performance in Game 5 made me feel like Ron Burgundy. LBJ pooped in my refrigerator, ate the whole wheel of cheese and I’m not even mad. That was amazing.”
Word is the MicroTards are fuming at me for taking a “low blow” and comparing Windows to hell. Maybe they’re right. The analogy isn’t perfect. You can’t get out of hell. You can get out of Windows.
I’m giving another JavaScript talk for Refresh Austin tonight: a crash‐course in Prototype & Scriptaculous. Be there!
Prototype 1.5.1 released! If you’re still running 1.5.0, you shouldn’t be. The $$ optimization alone is worth the upgrade.
We spend too much time hiding illness. There is an assumption that I must always look the same. I hope to look better than I look now. But I’m not going to miss my festival.
The moment at which [Timothy] Dalton grabs hold of a redheaded boy and exclaims “Stay back, or the gingernut gets it!” is to my ears the noblest line reading since the demise of Sir John Gielgud.