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Goofy Google Clicks

Hey Google, what is with the goofy links you create for the image search results?

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When I just do a normal old click on any of the numbered results, it works fine. If I do a command-click, the link opens in a new tab, but also opens in the current tab. (This is bad!) If I do a right-click (or control-click) to get the context menu and select ‘Open Link in New Tab’ it works fine. What is up with that?

I don’t suppose writing valid markup and having links as links instead of a garbled mess of Javascript has anything do to with it… What do you think?



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CSS Rules!

This is the follow-up post to last week’s CSS Sucks (Sort of…)

The project I’m currently working on has many nightmare related issues, like the client, and the flash-based navigation, and the tight deadline, but CSS is the one thing that is actually making the insane “print-designer meets the web circa 1997” design all possible… Thanks CSS!

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Zooomr

Zooomr looks interesting… and since they are offering 2.5 GB free pro accounts to bloggers who try it out, I thought I would do just that.

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I had a bit of trouble with login issues (I signed up awhile back) since they recently updated their login system, but it all seems to be working fine now. They don’t have a bulk uploader or iPhoto exporter yet, but once they do, I may just blast a thousand or more photos into the system. For now I just have a few photos I manipulated a bit. Uploading 10 at a time is not a lot of fun.

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I definitely think Zooomr could compete with Flickr and the other photo sharing services out there. It’ll be interesting to see what features they implement in the future to set themselves apart.


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The Return of Drupal?

I’m excited by the possibility of work with Drupal again. It’s been a few years since I really dug into it, and I l know it’s improved quite a bit since then.

Although I seem to be running almost half a dozen WordPress sites nowadays, and love it as a blogging platform, Drupal just seems to fix what this new project is, sort of an intranet/extranet combo site.

The module list seems about 10 times longer than the last time I looked at it. I tell ya, the power of open-source. ;)

If any Drupal hackers out there want to offer me any advice, please do…

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I am a (Contributing) Author!

I’ve been writing this blog for almost 10 9* years now, and before that I published magazines, and music, and other things, but it’s true what they say, and actual book, is still pretty neat.

Videoblogging Book

A few years ago, I was asked to contribute to a technical book, but had to decline at the time due to prior commitments. Then last year, I wrote a whole bunch of stuff for a book about videoblogging that was supposed to be put out by that publisher that tends to show an animal on the cover. That didn’t happen, but what did happen is that the authors found another publisher, and got the book done, and some of my writing is in it.

So if you see the book Videoblogging published by Wiley (as part of their ExtremeTech series) take a look at the third page of the “About the Contributing Authors” section, and you will see my name. I still haven’t read the whole thing, but I’ve seen my writing on pages 312 and 327.

In the interest of disclosure, I will note that I do not make any money from the sale of this book. I still think you should buy it if you are interested in videoblogging though…

(* I meant to say 9, not 10, I can’t count…)