These aren’t great from a photography standpoint, but they tell a story that still makes me crack up.\ There were eight Americans in a row boat (rowed by a tiny Indian man) in a bird sanctuary. Our driver promised crocodiles. The guy rowing the boat lifted up his oars as we got close to a […]
Author: Kevin Lawver
Christmas Pictures
Jen already did the highlights, so I’ll just post the photos: The Annual Trip to the Hattiesburg Zoo Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Fishing With Grandpa\ It was a good trip, like Jen said. We all got at least a little touch of something at some point during the trip, which was unpleasant, but we […]
Happy New Year and Twitter Stats
We had a lovely time in Mississippi eating way too much fried/barbecued/fatty food (I only gained one pound, and have promptly lost three, so no worries), playing with the dog, hanging out with Jen’s parents, fishing and watching the boys ride around in the trailer behind Grandpa Brian’s lawn tractor. I’ll try to upload pictures […]
The Book Has Arrived!!
Not in stores or anything, but I got my author copy of Adapting to Web Standards from the very nice FedEx guy today. Christopher Schmitt had to convince me over IM to actually take the plastic wrap off and take a peek inside.\ There’s something really weird about seeing something I wrote in a real […]
Four Score and Seven Years Ago…
Today, in 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave one of the most important speeches in this country’s history after the worst battle in the history of the United States.\ I love reading it. It’s profound, and in a few words, explains what’s truly great about this country. Not that we fight or disagree, but that we believe […]
Adapting to Web Standards: Going to Press!!
I just saw the e-mail today that the book I helped write is going to press on Monday!! It’s called Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites, and I wrote a chapter about AOL.com. It’s available for pre-order now, of course, and would make a great Christmas gift for your favorite web […]
Raising Cain
I’ve been telling everyone I know about The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard. It’s a modern-day Walden and full of dense, lyrical, beautiful prose about living in Southern Virginia and contemplating nature. It’s as much about how we observe life and participate in it, and there’s one paragraph that makes my heart sing […]
Web Standards’ Three Buckets of Pain
I spent this week at the W3C’s annual technical plenary, which is a week of “discussing” the future of the foundations and future of the web. I spent the first part of the week in the CSS Working Group discussing CSS3 features and CSS2.1 issues. Tuesday evening and Wednesday were spent in the AC meeting […]
At The W3C Technical Plenary
I’m in chilly Cambridge, MA this week for the annual W3C Technical Plenary. I’ve spent the last two days in the CSS Working Group discussing the future of things, issues, and debating the relative merits of x vs. y. Now that I have a camera built in to my laptop, I decided to take a […]
This ‘Stache’s a Winner!
They posted the final tally and I won! I have no idea what the trophy looks like or when it will show up, but expect pictures when it gets here.\ There’s no way I would have won if not for Howard Uman, who sent an e-mail out to about 800 people (no, really, 750 people […]