How To Be a Web Whore Just Like Me by Philip Greenspun

I was looking up a word at www.m-w.com when I found out they have a Toolbar for IE. Kick ass. After installing, it’s now on the right side of my screen next to the Googlebar (another thing I could not live without.) I also spent the time to learn what I needed to do to get the Links bar enabled but up and out of the way, and bothered to customize it with the links I actually frequently use.

I’m getting pretty good at this web stuff.

CK called me on the carpet on a few things of my site design that kinda suck. Like the table widths set to large sizes, like 800 or 1020. I don’t know about the rest of the world, since I like browsing in big screens and have large resolutions. But I agree that scrolling horizonally in a website is baad. (T-shirts GOOD, beer GOOD, scrolling BAAD) So I’ve made the tables a bit more percentage based and more flexible.

I guess I shouldn’t have picked on CK for his RSS feed not being 2.0 compliant. It’s hard to be a good web design whore.

We’re sorting out Siebel Center lab furniture selections, and I had to some quick CPU measurements to see if the machines we currently have will fit in an under-the-desk hanging enclosure. These are for the graphics lab, and the teaching lab in SC — where more computers in a small desk footprint is “a good thing.” We fit, and there’s plenty of room to adjust these slings. From this manufacturer, they’re called “CPU Hammocks”. I’m jealous. I want a hammock at work, but not for my CPU!

[ Edited: Marc emailed me and admitted he Googled it. So I added the direct link. I also added my link to his naked pictures back to my website. ]

We wants it…. Wants it, the precious….