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There use to be this one magazine that I liked called CreateOnline which can no longer be found anywhere. It’d have tips, interviews, web site reviews… all good stuff. If you know where it can be found, please let me know.

I’ve now decided to consider subscribing to Communication Arts which does publish one annual magazine on Interactive Media. Maybe the company I intern for will cover the subscription, but I’d still want to keep it @ home so I’d rather buy the subscription for myself cuz I’m greedy. :-/

Another good magazine is Computer Arts but I hafta go buy an actual magazine cuz the price to subscribe online is in a funny currency. :-/

A man dies same day that he wins the lottery:

Indiana Man Dies After Winning Game Show

I read it in the paper this morning over coffee and it struck me as funny. It shouldn’t have been funny, tho, cuz a man died. I guess it’s ironic cuz he was hit by a truck and he said he was going to buy himself a car with this new-found wealth.

Well, after yesterday’s post I found out that CSS allows you to select attribute and create a rule for it.

For example, to create a rule for external links the code could look like this:

a[target=_blank]:link, a[target=_blank]:visited {
background: #4debeb;
border-bottom: 1px dashed #000;
}

However, IE doesn’t support attribute selectors. Bummer, just when I was about to implement the above code. :-Þ

So I added a feature to my blog in CSS where it shows an icon next to links that open in new windows. I saw it on another blog and I emailed the owner but never got a response (typical). Well, it was driving me crazy til I was finally able to crack open the CSS files on her site and see it was only CSS.

I thought it was a combo of JS and CSS where the JS would test a link and if it contained target="_blank" it would add the icon. The way it’s done now is to add a class in CSS with an image in the background. For example,
background: url(img/popup.gif) no-repeat right;

Have fun implementing!

I got an evite from a friend of mine from my alma mater and it turns out that it’s a karaoke party. I’m nervous cuz I think I’ll end up getting drunk and singing some god-awful song and making a fool of myself. But then again, that’s the point of karaoke anyway, right?

In other news, my laptop’s battery is getting all screwy and running out of juice 10 mins after I unplug it. No, I don’t leave my laptop plugged in all the time; that’s just wrong. I’m going to hafta hunker down and get a new one. Dig it, my laptop’s got a new OS, a new wireless NIC card, a new USB/Firewire card, and I still haven’t updated the bios.

Actually, I don’t know how to update the bios, but apparently it’s very important. Help?