Happy Birthday, Lillibean!

She's not only gorgeous, Plei, she is preternaturally self-possessed.

Whether the Amazon thing was a mistake or corporate assiness, I just want to take the opportunity to say Support your local independent bookseller! And if you don't have a local one in these troubled times, support independent booksellers elsewhere on the internet!

Happy Birthday Lillian!

Theo, the Lofotenmoose guy is more than a little esoteric, and not in the least concerned with graceful degradation. The pages now work on more browsers than they had when he developed them, but my recent immersion into CSS has appalled me about IE's compatibility with the current CSS standard. Opera makes a lot of noise about CSS3 and HTML5, which is all well and nice for *tomorrow*, but the most recent version of IE isn't doing everything in CSS 2.x that I want it to.

Unlike Lofotenmoose I will not break it, though.

I love maxdesign--I recced it in Buffistechnology recently. It's a bit repetitious, but they seem to be trying to make every page as independent as possible, so power to them. They're very well laid out, and a great quick reference, especially the Selectutorial.

I have a whole window of CSS-related tabs open that I'm flipping between for reference and inspiration to try and make something happen. All for a very simple couple pages!

At my last big software development shop, the developers couldn't roll stuff out, period. It would take a lot of people to make an Amazon glitch, including management. Oh, dev was irritated with the duration of the cycle, but given some of the stuff they'd pulled before the rules were instituted, they had no one to blame but themselves. Whoever writes Amazon's search test cases is probably stinging right now something awful.

Happy birthday, Lillian!

Love the cranky bunny pictures--and, Kat, Matilda has the same identical trike as Noah. After months of not sparing a thought for it, she's been struggling with it all weekend. Her legs are still too short to properly pedal, but just by the tiniest little bit. It's very frustrating for her, poor boo.

Happy birthday, Lillybean Squeakaboo, Princess of All You Survey. The camera still loves you.

Grace has the proper reaction to bunny ears.

Grace has the proper reaction to bunny ears.

Unlike Owen, who wore his until they fell apart in July last year. He's less enchanted with the pair I got him this year.

Plei, you have a beautiful girl!

Happy birthday Lilybean!

Grace's face it too funny. I used to test software -- the testing period was 4 weeks for a new release. ( ha) the first week I surfed the web with no guilt because new stuff broke everything. And then the co in its infinite wisdom. Fire all the testers. yes all three of the part time testers-- thinking to save money because the programmers could 'test' there own software.

Oh yeah -- bad management hates on QA because it exposes all the flaws, which they'd shortsightedly prefer to ignore. So one of my major warning signs that an IT department is going down the tubes is when they can QA.

(Another is eliminating the free juice in the breakrooms, followed later by eliminating the free soda. But that's just from my bitter personal experience.)

Where did everyone go?

I have a dentist appointment today at 4:00. Which means I won't have to resort to Plan B, which was "DIY dentistry with a Vise-Grip."