May 2003

Ray Guns and Roll-Ups

Information from: Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) Tutorial [The old "ray-gun" approach of computer monitors:] Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) shoot electrons toward a phosphorescent screen. The electron beam leaves a bright spot wherever it strikes the phosphor screen. [The newer flat screens and laptop screens:] Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) block or pass light reflected from an [...]

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Word Cleaner

“We must put all our Word documents online.” Eight words that strike fear into the hearts of web professionals everywhere. Why MS Word generates bad HTML. A free tool that fixes Word’s bad HTML. Other things you can do to improve the health of web pages that started as Word docs (including talking to your [...]

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Print StyleSheets

Zeldman.com: this first draft print style sheet may help designers who are crafting their own printer-friendly styles. (Thanks Cheryl for the pointer.) Zeldman also points to Eric Meyer’s “Going to Print” (A List Apart No. 144) which I haven’t yet read, but shall. Eric Meyer’s books on CSS are superb. I’m sure everything he writes [...]

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De Afternoon Light

Sometimes the sun just catches the valley in a certain way. The thumbnail on the left doesn’t do it justice. Click on the small picture though for a larger version (approx 70Kb, 600*400). It was 4.39 pm on 27 May. Sunset these days is about 6.39 pm, so the sun was low. They say the [...]

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Hillary, Tenzing and Everest

This couldn’t claim to be a Kiwi blog if I didn’t mention that today is the 50th anniversary of Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reaching the Summit of Mt Everest. From Tenzing-Norgay.com: May 29 1953: Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of Mt Everest. By 1953, Norgay had probably spent more time on [...]

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Babylon 5, Season 2 DVDs

OK. My Babylon 5, Season 2 DVDs arrived today (Region 2). The packaging’s in English, the one episode I watched was all OK — looked gorgeous too. The booklet however is in French. Hmmm. “Le nouveau commandant de la station spatiale…”

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