Let that be a lesson to those of you who might be thinking about striking out on your own: if you can't cover all of the expenses you'll incur between leaving your old job and the point two months after you finish your first project at the new job, you can't afford it. Yay! I've done several paying jobs by now, and more are underway, but this is the first check to actually show up for deposit. Today I received my first Complex Spiral paycheck. Otherwise, I'll stick to the usual foolishness that passes for witty discourse 'round these parts.Ĭhecks and Balances Thursday, 9 October 2003
If people indicate an interest, I suppose I could talk about OS X tools and widgets I find useful. The Dock just doesn't have enough features to be an effective replacement. It's also because I'm getting very close to dumping the Dock in favor of a registered copy of DragThing, which I use on my Classic OS machine and sorely miss in OS X.
This is partly because I keep it on the left and so it's very tall, and I don't want to waste that much space. And is that a CSS-driven layout I spy? Why yes, I believe it just might be.įor those who were thinking about asking, I won't be sharing with you what's in my Dock. xlab is chock full of tips and pointers, and it looks clean and attractive to boot. Mac OS X folks should delay not a moment longer their introduction to xlab, which I found thanks to Jeremy Keith. This may be one more bit of support to my claim that Microsoft didn't win the browser wars: standards did.
Ser Zeldman is right on about the shift in tone over at Slashdot when it comes to standards issues. So howdy, Slashdotters! Hopefully this will also drive a little more traffic to my standards-oriented consulting business, Complex Spiral Consulting. Having one's site mentioned in the comments associated with a post isn't as good as having a whole post about your book, but it's probably still driven a lot of traffic this way.