One of the many fabulous things about Apple’s MacOSX is the incredible number of keyboard shortcuts for advanced typography. Left and right (so called �smart�) quotes are generated with Option+] and Option+Shift+], for example. Some word processors automatically insert them, but when you enter as much content into a web browser as I do, it’s a pain to remember a dozen different ALT+1234 style �shortcuts� to make Windows generate the same characters.
We’re all of thirty days away from CSS Reboot and things aren’t looking so hot at Chateaux Ben.
Many of you will already have seen the preview screenshots of Microsoft’s next release of Office. Currently referred to as �Office 12�, it will likely arrive in late 2006.
This evening, Stevie �artistic placeholder� Marshall has been mostly trying to fix his new blog design to work in Microsoft’s broken web browser.
They’ve changed something�
In what is best describe as �bloody brilliant�, Andy Budd has announced a last minute, grass-roots web standards conference taking place in Brighton next month. When the ticket price comes in at a student friendly �50 and a 4-week advance ticket from Manchester to Stevie weighs in at �10, you know you’re on to a winner.
Via BBC News: Fire hits Wallance and Gromit sets
This is something I’ve known for a few days but felt I should announce it for posterity. Whilst my migration from b2Evolution to Wordpress has been a fabulous success, I shan’t be completing my design in time for the CSS:Reboot on November 1st.
Right, as part of my as-yet unnamed final year project (broadly speaking, it’s �desktop search�), I need to do some research. Actually, if anything I need to find some books that tell me what I already know so I can put them in my bibliography to get around the fact that I’m a smart-arse and can’t justify any of my knowledge.
Just a short post this one. I had the great pleasure of meeting up with some other like-minded geeks in York on Saturday.
ElfUrl is a service that generates short urls for long and unwieldy urls. Anything with a whopping great query string (Amazon search results, for example) can be converted into a short code that’s easier to recite and won’t break in email.
OK, I’m in the process of preparing a questionnaire aimed at users to establish the final round of functional and non-functional requirements for my Desktop Search project. I’ll obviously be linking to it on here when it’s live, but I thought I’d give out a last call for questions first.
