I’m already fully addicted to Audioscrobbler/Last.FM, but Pandora looks very cool as well. It actually did a pretty good job of navigating through my very particular (and sometimes peculiar) tastes in music.
It originally attracted my attention because the team that makes it is called the Music Genome Project, which is very similar to the tagline we occasionally use for The Pure Drop — “the world music genome project”.
Alex Robinson has written In search of the One True Layout — a really comprehensive wrap-up of the challenges involved in building sophisticated pure-css layouts.
Recommended reading for those of us who work all the hours god sends getting css layouts to work in the browser that Bill sends.
At this year’s WE05 conference it was not surprising that most of the delegates arrived with laptops. The surprising thing was that nearly all of those laptops were macs. I would have expected web developers to have a somewhat higher percentage of mac usage than the general internet user, but looking around the room I would have estimated the mac:win ratio at soemthing like 10:1! More than anything else I heard or saw at the conference, this filled me with hope.
My son Samuel inspired me to start blogging again after an absence of many years. (Actually it’s only about 3 years, but I reckon 3 internet years counts as “many”).
One of the neat things about having kids is that their enthusiasm can drive you to do more interesting things with your life.
I’ve recycled the name from the very first web site I made with Ingrid Spielman way back in 1993. The original Wood & Wire site is now long-gone, but I’ve always loved the name, and I notice it still has some google juice — making it nice and easy for folks to find without having to remember the URL.