First Post: Yes, I've Joined the Herd

As I more and more realize how much I enjoy reading friends', family's, artists', photographers' blogs, I figure I should reciprocate if possible. My aim for this blog, if I can keep it going, is to post things that I learn, find interesting, and think others may also be interested in.

I believe that this host has given you, my reader, the opportunity to subscribe to this Blog through an RSS feed. Please, use that, because I have found it so useful in the past.

For a while now, I have been using a Firefox browser plugin called Ubiquity. It's a great, almost natural-language, plugin that allows you to streamline many of your online activities without ever leaving the keyboard. I have been interested in creating a skin for this plugin for some time and finally sat down this evening to iron out all the kinks in its CSS. I call it "Kiwi."


I'm proud of how it came out, but more so of how I managed to pull this off in an evening, especially with my coding skills being so very rusty. On a similar note, I have discovered that, in preparation of the upcoming CSS3 standards, both Mozilla and Apple's WebKit have begun to support the border-radius style, which will allow normally very rectangular tables and objects to become fluid and, in some cases, even oblong or circular. I have also found a fairly good illustrations (1, 2) of the CSS box model, which had me conceptually confused for quite the longest time.

I've requested a few CSS guidebooks from the Orange County Library with hopes of finding the time soon to revamp my personal website/portfolio. Exciting times to come.