Anyone know what’s up with this web site: http://www.jamminz90.com? They’re calling for a boycott of Clear Channel stations. They seem to have found my old pointer to the Washington Post article on Clear Channel and cite it as support. Yay, I’m a support point for a boycott.
Day: July 10, 2002
Don Box blogs
Don Box has a blog at GotDotNet, the MS .NET evangelism site. It’s good to see someone at Microsoft, especially someone as high profile as Don, with a blog.
But Don, you need permalinks! I really want to link to some of your individual observations, rather than the main URL, but you don’t have any anchor links that will let me do that. Plus I don’t know what your archiving system looks like to allow me to link to content in a way that my links won’t break once the content leaves the main page. Fix it, won’t you? 
Finally, IE compatibility for this blog
After much head scratching, I finally figured out why this site never displayed correctly in IE for Windows. I had some tags nested in the following order in my template:
<div class="grabber"><h3>Heading</h3></div>
After this line, text in the following part of the page drifted just slightly to the left, eventually getting cut off by the bounding box of the parent div so that it became unreadable. By reversing the order of the <div> and <h3> tags, so:
<h3><div class="grabber">Heading</div></h3>
it works on IE for Windows.
I should amend my first sentence. While I’ve figured out how to fix the problem, I’m still not sure why the order of the tags should matter—and why IE/Windows cares when other browsers (including IE/Mac) doesn’t. But the important thing is the problem is fixed.
What the heck, here’s my blogchalk
Google! DayPop! This is my blogchalk: English, United States, Kirkland, Norkirk, Tim, Male, 26-30!
What’s that all about? Well, as explained on the site:
I miss … a region-sensible blog-search engine, [which] would make easier for me to know blogs owned by people that live near my home, and then, increase the possibility of real meetings. What would probably end in new and great friendships.
After seeing this kind of hard mapping implemented by people at NYCBloggers.com and watch to the rise of WarChalking (in my opinion, an idea that best express, today, the beauty of large public networks), I noticed a possible way: if all bloggers mark their sites with a special sign and geographic information, maybe it would be possible to improvise such searching system.
Shall I at least put my tightlines in order?
George Chang: Fishing Monomoy Island. George, having revitalized his blog, is focusing his attention on fishing in the greater Boston area, starting with Monomoy Island off Chatham, MA. You can subscribe to George’s Tightlines series here.
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