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Indeed a sad day it was when I found that Netscape was being dismantled by AOL. Never really used the newer versions of Netscape but rather I use Mozilla, the codebase for the former Netscape. As many people are saying, the major blow here is that there is no longer a major competitor for Internet Explorer. It will be a while until another browser can take Netscape’s place on the battlefield.

At 12:05pm EST today I officially turn 21 years old. I don’t feel any different yet. Probably won’t for a few days. We’ll see.

Been away for a while here. My drive to write comes and goes. This was one of those times. Here is a brief review of what has happened since my last post.

In my absence there has been a renewal of the mini icons article I did over on Brainstorms and Raves.

I discovered that Winamp3 is essentially at a stop in its development. Nullsoft is now focusing on Winamp2 and a combination of the two to become a Winamp5 (2 + 3 = 5) of sorts, taking the best of both and putting them together. In reaction to this I stopped using Winamp3 and rolled back to Winamp2. I forgot how much better 2 is than 3. Not to mention there is just more out there for 2 then there is for 3.

Got my copy of Designing With Web Standards. This book is fantastic. I’ll do a full write up shortly. Go visit the mini-site (see the DWWS button).

I’ve started moderating on a new web development forum, Advanced Web Aid. They are very young and looking for members. I know one of the head admins, some really great people over there. Go check them out. Join even!

And perhaps the best news of all, a new job fell in my lap. Seriously. No resume (yet, at least), no searching (they searched me out) and best of all, all the employees are my friends. Unfortunately I must keep the details down for a while to protect the new company but as soon as I can, I promise I will fill in some details.

I believe that’s it. I’ll post as things come to mind.

Oh, I turn 21 in 16 days. Yeah for me!

Via WaSP, it looks as if FrontPage is likely to make their standards defunct web page editor, well, standards compliant. Let us just hope that it is not the same compliance level that Internet Explorer is at.

Via Ordinary-Life.net, a hysterical flash movie of desktop icons with “issues”.

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However you chose to say it, Metallica still rules. Their new CD (St. Anger) is further proof of their ruleage. They have hit their audience with a very raw sound that many people are taking a while to get used to. The drums sound like something out of Blue Man Group. But I like it. Makes me want to monkey-stomp something.

Ran across CSS Play while looking through by access logs. Presented is some examples of things that can CSS can do, or rather, should be able to do provided it is viewed in a compliant browser.

Speaking of “compliant browsers”, this raises another issue that has cropped up regarding Microsoft’s IE release schedule. If you haven’t read already, Microsoft plans to halt production on future standalone browser versions. From now on, IE browser upgrades will only be available to those who upgrade to the next operating system that Microsoft puts out. I personally think this a terrible move, carrying with it very negative effects on the web development community. It’s bad enough that browsers currently don’t agree on standards, now we ave IE6/Win as our lowset common denominator.

Tamara, author of Through A Glass Darkly, celebrated a new year today.

Via tantek, Simon Jessey has provided a complete transcript of the interaction between Neo and The Architect. Near as I can tell, the transcript is exactly what is in the movie. And I’ve seen it three times so my memory of it is pretty clear.

Anyway, it provides a way for people to, at their own pace, to go back over this very complicated scene and try to make sense of it all. Thanks Simon for this great resource.

Via Simian Design, the Quiet Death of Re-Launch. This is a facinating article giving a clear cut example as to why websites should slowly evolve from subtle change to subtle change. The times of major and/or complete site design overhauls are over. So embrace this new era and give your users some consistency for a change.