binarylife

Jaiku never stops amazing me. You can follow the development of the battle on this presence. Joined forces of @arjw (Antoine) and @sachaqs (Sacha) defeated the code, and the blog looks handsome now (scroll down). Thank you guys, and every one else who contributed. I'm happy as a pig in the rain.

Damn it. Just when I thought I’m getting the hang of it… CSS scored against me again. As some of you might notice I re-skinned abinarylife with a new and improved theme, which originally is Modicus (by Upstart Blogger), mind you I have shuffled it around slightly. And to add this extra touch I would [...]

CSS (as in the coding language) is definitely in the top 3 of my private enemies. I bitch and moan about it a lot. Back when I started the adventure of web designing it was all html and embed tables were the thing. Admittedly I was about 13 at the time so it must have been circa 1998. Everything was nice, neat and easy, and it was enough to know where to read up on a certain html attribute to impress your friends. Not any more...

Since my editor graciously awarded me ability to do whatever I want with my columns once they are published in the magazine I decided to translate this one and put it up here. This is only partially to show off, mainly I wanted to illustrate one thing, same thing that I'm always trying to explain to my geeky friends: you have to learn how to talk to non-geeks.