Yay! The Scottish girls reach the semi-finals. Next up the Canadians ;-) - BBC SPORT | Winter Olympics 2002 | Curling | GB curlers reach semi-final

Rhona Martin's women curlers clinched a semi-final spot after beating Germany 9-5 in their second tie-breaker.

The British team were set to leave the Winter Olympics after losing their final group match on Monday.

They relied on Switzerland beating Germany to give them a second bite at reaching the semis.

The Swiss did just that, but Martin's team still had to negotiate two tie-breakers, first against Sweden and the second against the Germans.

They defeated the Swedes 6-4 and then booked a showdown against Canada after brushing aside Germany.

via Scripting News - Apple's Working with CSS - Introduction to CSS Layout

There aren't many web developers who have not at least tried using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define typography and simple page attributes such as background and text color. These days more and more developers are pushing CSS even further, eschewing tables and embracing CSS as a web page layout tool. In this article I'll explain why CSS is in many ways preferable to using tables for layout, and then I'll show you some CSS layout techniques using a complete re-coding of the Apple Internet Developer home page as an example.

According to my watch this posting will be made at 2 minutes past 8 on the 20th February, 2002 - 20:02 - 20/02 - 2002

EE Times - Toshiba and MIPS to co-develop 64-bit microprocessor

Toshiba Corp. and MIPS Technologies Inc. late today announced plans to co-develop next-generation, 64-bit microprocessors, based on MIPS' code-named "Amethyst" RISC processor core.

Thanks for being a good sport Jim ;-) - BBC SPORT | Winter Olympics 2002 | Curling | Medal joy for GB curlers

Britain's women curlers are guaranteed a silver medal at least after winning through to the Olympic final.

They claimed a tense 6-5 semi-final win over odds-on favourites Canada.

In Thursday's final, Britain will meet Switzerland, who defeated the US 9-4 in the other semi-final.

The defeat of Canada is already being hailed as the greatest win in British curling history.

I'm just about to watch the highlights on BBC 2!

via hbwt - Athletes of Evil. Quite appropriate when watching the winter olympics on the tube. V. funny.

The highlights of BBC SPORT | Winter Olympics 2002 | Luge and Skeleton | Coomber claims bronze for Britain have just been run. With a bronze (today) and at least a silver (tomorrow), this guarantees Britain's best medal haul since 1948, when they won two bronzes! At least GB are in the medal table ;-)

Doxygen

Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, Java, IDL (Corba, Microsoft and KDE-DCOP flavors) and C.

It can help you in three ways:

1. It can generate an on-line documentation browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LATEX ) from a set of documented source files. There is also support for generating output in RTF (MS-Word), PostScript, hyperlinked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix man pages. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources, which makes it much easier to keep the documentation consistent with the source code.
2. Doxygen can be configured to extract the code structure from undocumented source files. This can be very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions. The relations between the various elements are be visualized by means of include dependency graphs, inheritance diagrams, and collaboration diagrams, which are all generated automatically.
3. You can even `abuse' doxygen for creating normal documentation (as I did for this manual).

Just in case I ever need this - Mac OS X Hints - Help for iBook owners with PAL TVs

The Doc Searls Weblog | Blue Evan

Even Norlin digs Ev's redesign, which features the man's own head in vivid blue.

Doc wonders if this is coincidence and links to a photo of the Blue Men Group.

Perhaps I should use some of the photos from my Comic Relief stunt to brighten up my home page ;-)

News Story: Nintendo grab Gamecube.com

Nintendo have finally acquired the domain name www.gamecube.com, after months of trying. And failing.

Seth's Surprise Is Ready

Yesterday I mentioned that one of us was working on a surprise for Frontier developers.

That someone was Brian Andresen, and the surprise was Transport Layer Security for UserLand Frontier and Radio UserLand (on the client side).

It's pretty exciting, but it's late on a Saturday night so we aren't really expecting much reaction before tomorrow.

This is indeed exciting news. It will be even more exciting when they implement the Mac OS X version ;-)

Keeping an eye on Macrobyte's Transport Layer Security site.

Thanks Brian and Seth

via hbwt - Joel on Software - The Iceberg Secret, Revealed

I'm going to let you in on a little secret about those non-technical management types that will make your life a million times easier. It's real simple. Once you know my secret, you'll never have trouble working with non-technical managers again

As always, Joel's essays are not just well worth reading but are worth acting upon.

Jim Roepcke's observation about CSS support in Frontier/Manila/Radio is IMHO right on the mark. It's partly (even mainly) a legacy issue. The CSS purists are overlooking the difficulty of taking pre-CSS design decisions. Hindsight has 20:20 vision ;-)

Jim, aslo has some good links in that post. Like Jim, I'm thinking of CSSifying my website(s). But will I be prepared to compromise the look and feel by doing so? I guess it depends on how gracefully the CSS I use degrades in older browsers.

This Time For Sure!

Time to eat my own dog food. Today VFTH goes CSS. And the crowd goes wild...There, a little move-in accomplished. Enough contrast to read clearly? Type sizes OK? Let me know if you find me mucking up a perfectly good design.

Al has a nice clean CSSified look to View From The Heart. Bravo Al!

I've just seen this reported on the tube. LOL - BBC News | EUROPE | Spanish inquisition into invasion gaffe

Red-faced Royal Marines have been forced to beat a hasty retreat after storming a Spanish beach resort instead of the fortress rock of Gibraltar.

A map-reading glitch sent the 20-strong invasion force onto the beach at La Linea, the town on the frontier with the British colony, to the surprise of Spanish locals.

British Computer Society | Turing Lecture 2002

Smaller, faster, better - but is it nanotechnology?

Speaker: Professor Mark E Welland (Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge)

Had I been in London that day I would have definitely made the effort to attend this event.

A List Apart: Better Living Through XHTML

If you want your site to work well in today's browsers and non-traditional devices, and to continue to work well in tomorrow's, is a good idea to author new sites in XHTML, and to convert old pages to XHTML as your work schedule permits.

CSS Layouts - saila.com

CSS Layouts
A tableless, CSS-based, liquid, three-column layout