Kind of interesting. I was just posting about supporting older browsers a few days ago and last night I read a post by Tim Bray about dropping support for it. Then I just noticed Don Park adding in some comments on the subject.

In other news, I fixed some of the problems with my site in IE6. The last one is a bit more strange and doesn’t seem to happen consistently though.

Always nice to have my parents stop in. I’ve actually been keeping my apartment in relatively good shape so all they really had to do was take out the trash and help with some vacuuming. But we did go out to Casa de Pedro for lunch which was very reasonable and quite yummy (as usual). It was all nicely low key though since I’m still feeling enh. I’m thinking about a nap and then maybe trying to hit Dave Winer’s blog weekly thing since I’m really interested in the stuff he’s doing.

I almost wish he’d do something a little more advanced too. I think there’s lots of neat things going on with the whole weblog world and things associated with it. Like I’d like a chance to learn a bit more about OPML, or at least be able to talk about it and ask questions. Add it all to my “look to learn about new things that might help make me employable” checklist. That and the stuff just sounds kinda neat (and I admit it, I’m a big geek).

Jeff Raskin: “Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.” [Quotes of the Day]

Been a bit quiet because I’m feeling a little under the weather. Hopefully I’ll be feeling a little bit better today. Gonna try and get a bit more sleep though.

Just in case you ever wondered. Here are some Home Uses for Penguins [via Headphones Save Lives]

What’s the cure for the mid-week blues? Why, a night out at the Analog Lounge of course. And to make it even better, add in a raspberry chocolate martini. They’re like dessert in a glass. I think this week is gonna be pretty good. DJ Headrush has a weekly show on Friday nights at WBRS. Yet another college radio station I can’t get. I believe we also have Mr. Peter Yagmin starting things off tonight and Mr. Peter Ellis doing the honors closing things up. Here’s the official blurb:

Changmian and Dubcoast present

*~The Analog Lounge~*

The relaxed side of things.
Join us every Wednesday for a mix of
music styles in the lounge at Vertigo, with lots of mellow mixed in.
This week, we bring you

DJ Headrush [wbrs : djheadrush.com] MA

The Analog Lounge with resident dj’s
Gregory Blake (Changmian) Boston
Special Pete (dubcoast music) CA
Peter Ellis (ttb) Boston
Pete Yagmin (Changmian) Boston

Wednesdays
@ Vertigo (upstairs)
126 State St. Boston, MA
617-723-7277
10pm – 2am
21+ with ID
$5 cover (gets you into both the Lounge and Anitya)
No dress code
www.changmian.com
www.dubcoast.com
www.vertigoboston.com
www.mapquest.com (directions)

Upcoming Guests:
04/30 – Defixio [Redlight : punkrocktechno] MA

To view our calendar online (with support for you iCal and Mozilla
calendar folk):
http://ical.mac.com/gblake99/The32Analog32Lounge

This week downstairs at Anitya we’ve got Changmian DJ Bill Marshall. Who I’m sure will rock things pretty hard.

Kin Hubbard: “A good listener is usually thinking about something else.” [Quotes of the Day]

Ian Hixie has a great post about IE6 and hallucinogenic drugs. Of course, now my question is, how much better is the Mozilla family of browsers? Opera? Safari? While I don’t mind singling out MS, the issue here is browsers supporting things correctly. Now, from my own experience with redesigning my web site with CSS that Mozilla worked pretty much as expected, as does Safari. IE6 still doesn’t seem to be displaying the section headings in the sidebar (does it for anyone?), and I’m not doing anything really fancy there. I set the font and the background and foreground colors and I don’t think much else. I should check the site in Opera too to see how it looks.

Btw, for those of you use read this on LiveJournal, I’m talking about my actual home page, which is here.

Over on Dave Winer’s blog, he’s talking about new features coming into Manila. While the features are cool (yay! trackback!), I think what I’m finding most interesting is seeing how much his using Manila as a customer, setting it up for a real world situation, seems to be pushing development work along on it. I’m not sure if this is something he does regularly or not, though I get the feeling not. Already since he’s been at Harvard they’ve addressed the issue of visible email addresses (something I’d commented on a few times on userland.com’s discussion groups), and are now adding Trackback support.

How many developers turn around and actively use their products like this? Or how many end up having to go onto the next project and only really looking back when there are bugs to be fixed. Sometimes I think it’s possible to be so stuck within a project that you miss everything else going on around you, or lose sight of how easy or hard it will be for the user to work with the software. Especially something as big as Manila or Radio.

In the past two weeks I’ve started to get hammered by spam offering to sell me cable TV descramblers. In fact, it has overtaken every other topic, including sex, for spam. Too bizzare. Is this the hot new item to have? Or is there just one guy sending out all the spam in the world and he happened to pick up a few thousand descramblers that are taking up way too much space in his garage.

(Hmm, I’ve mentioned sex two times in a row. Must stop thinking about it.)