TOP 22 CSS TUTORIALS. Useful CSS enhancements on this list of 22 CSS tips and tutorials worth checking out. My faves are the Hoverbox Image Gallery, sexy buttons, and a reference to a blog I've used in the past that deserves some link love, Floatutorial.com.
NO ITOUCH PURCHASE YET. I visited Small Dog Electronics a few days ago and spent a half-hour with the iTouch. The interface is dazzling, really, with effects like the lists bouncing when they complete loading. There are no iPhones in Vermont (no ATT), so it was my first encounter with the iTouch/iPhone UI. While I was mighty impressed, no iTouch purchase for me yet. If I buy a new iPod it will be an iPod classic. My biggest issue with the iTouch is the 16GB limitation, and these Five iPod Touch Disappointments (which include the 16GBs) confirm my decision to wait.
LEOPARD IN MY FUTURE? When I return to Small Dog to buy a new iPod classic, I'm going to spend some serious time with Leopard. I've been wanting to overhaul my office network for some time, with my main goal being to replace my four ever-faithful yet energy inefficient Windows servers with one server and one desktop. So I'm weighing a Mac as the desktop. Vista is so much of what I don't want, yet buying a new PC and loading XP on it seems like I accept using dated technology, and I don't want to have to do that. While I deliberate, this Steve Borsch post titled "Top Five Reasons that Leopard will be Apple's tipping point" and a NY Times piece on how Apple's OS is poised for ongoing upgrades put Leopard in the plus column. Ah heck, this smattering is just pure smatter since I spend all day every day working in Windows on two PCs, each running Visual Studio, SQL Server Manager and other tools I use as a Microsoft developer. It looks like it will be Vista Ultimate for me and hoping that I was wrong about it.
JOE STAGNER ON THE SCOBLE GAP. Joe Stagner is one of the reasons I still hold out faith in Microsoft returning to the technologically dominating company it once was. Joe is an incredibly bright, free-thinking, free-speaking guy. I've seen Joe several times while he was in the New England area and each time I had to ask, "Does this guy actually work at Microsoft?" He proposed on this post titled "The Scoble Gap" that someone needs to step-up and serve as the voice Scoble had. Scoble was interesting when he represented Microsoft, his words carried a weight and a perspective that's been lost (to me, anyway. I stopped subscribing to The Scobelizer months ago.) So Joe asks, why shouldn't HE fill the gap? I'd love to see that, myself. The Stagnerator!