The 16th style sheet has been given a name – Everlong.
I'm running with the ever-long-search concept that Windows Live Search pioneered. This is ever-long-blog. When you get close to page bottom more content is automatically served up, so you can just keep reading. You'll never have to click "Next Page" again.
Comments are inline, so you don't have to refresh, just scroll. It's kinda like scrolling back in time. See something out of place? Let me know.
Here is part of my vector art collection from highschool. These were truly a joy to make. I kinda had this competition going on back then between my pencil crayon artwork and computer based drawings. We all know how that turned out :).
It is still very pleasing to know that I could scale most of these photos to any size, without loss of quality. They were all created using CorelDraw.
Bombardier Train, manually 'vectorized'
Raster vector mix
I like the bridge, not the diamonds
Reminants of my obsession with 2advanced.com
Turnitin gives school districts an automated tool to search for instances of plagiarism.2 I haven't used it before (and I have no idea how useful/useless it may be).3 The Washington Post ran a story4 which re-ignited my interest in it.5 I wish the students all the best for their attempt to mobilize these activities on the net.6 Their intentions are noble and I think their passion is commendable.7
The problem with “turnitin.com” is that a student should be the only person who decides who uses or reads their documents.8 If your concerned that9 "Turnitin is making money by stealing my intellectual property",10 now, don't you fret, now, don't you frown11. Right there it tells you how to turn the ****ing thing off.12 Which will work unless13 you forget to add it to the robots.txt, or the bot is drunk and ignores the robots.txt.14
Plagiarism has never been easier than it is today.15 "According to Turnitin only 1 out of 200 in my 2nd year physics was not guilty of plagiarism"16, says one student. But, does it really surprise you? I mean really? It shouldn't.17
1 MikeSmith.comI realized after reading a couple of first time bloggers words last week that it's become too serious around here. Creating this thing is what makes it fun for me, but both content and code have become a hindrance. I've dug myself into a 600px wide hole.
Things need to be more agile. The markup needs to be smarter so that I can write style sheets with more freedom. During the next few weeks I'm going to clean up the old posts to lessen the dependence on width. Once that is complete I plan to lighten things up a little. First on the content side by writing and sharing more freely, secondly I'll be adding categories to bring some more organization to the site, and finally on the presentation side by experimenting a little. JavaScript, Flash, colours (outside the grayscale), heck maybe even a few images will all be explored. That doesn't mean it's going to look like a MySpace profile. I really just want to revert this site into the experimental state that I once felt it was.
I have a series of articles in the works centered around creating HTML resumes. It will likely be a three scene act; "1. Creating your resume page structure by hand" which will show how to create a lightweight wireframe, "2. Creating a killer HTML resume" that will explain in fine detail how to create something spectacular, and finally "3. Enhancing your resume with microformats" where I'll touch on hResume and some vCard stuff that can take your resume beyond the screen and print and into an address book with ease. I might put together a gallery of sample style sheets that people can use also.
Beyond that there's a lot of drafts in the queue that are still in need of being published. Hopefully the history graph continues its accent.