March 2007
Tango Icons for Gtk-Stock
Posted by on Friday, March 30, 2007 in - 6 comments
Today the community behind the Tango project re-drew over 190 icons from the Gtk toolkit behind the Gnome Linux desktop. The old icons were showing their age and they now match the style defined by the Tango project. • I participated just enough to be able to pretend to have been helpful (or …
Posted by on Wednesday, March 28, 2007
The <Video> Tag
Posted by on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 in - 5 comments
Brendan Eich, the Canada-loving technical leader of the Mozilla project, has written a piece on The Open Web and Its Adversaries and given a presentation on The Open Web. In addition to a general overview of what it means to have an open web, the post mentions work that Opera and Mozilla are doing …
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Posted by on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Remove Customization
Posted by on Wednesday, March 7, 2007 in - 6 comments
The new like-myspace-but-more-hip website Virb has a feature worth noting. Like many sites where you can create a page about yourself, you can do all kinds of visual customization to your page. On the same place (notably) on each page, though, there is a “remove customization” link. Clicking this …
The Encouraging Near Future of Music
Posted by on Sunday, March 4, 2007 in - 7 comments
A post on the CBC Radio 3 weblog reminded me of a wave of albums by great artists coming out in the next few months. • The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (this week) • Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather (April 3) • Joel Plaskett - Ashtray Rock (April 17) • Rufus Wainwright - Release The …