Monday, 17. November 2008, 03:21:25
Sonoma County, college towns, townies, Sonoma State University
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PC bumper-stickers in a vast Suburban Wasteland
(for more pictures,
click here)
When I was in High School, in a little Hick town in an inland valley (soon to be part of the greater San Francisco Bay Area Suburban Sprawl - SFBASS) called Livermore, most of my cool friends (all six of 'em, more or less) were a year or two older, and about half of them ended up going to Sonoma State University in Cotati. I didn't visit there much, but it was discribed as a cool little college town. There was also a "planned development" to the North (soon to metastasize) into a bloated generic-looking suburb called Rohnert Park (which unfortunately spread to infect the town of Cotati itself).
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Tuesday, 11. March 2008, 22:38:08
Sonoma County, wallpaper, San Francisco, California
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I just resized a few of my favorite photos for use as wallpaper.
Feel free to pillage! There are two sizes for each photo: photos in the left column are sized 1320 x 990 pixels, for those of you with really BIG screens, and on the right, photos are sized 1200 x 900 for those of us with
normal screens.
Just one example of the FINE ARTISTRY you'll find on this page:
I'll be adding more as I get around to resizing things. Stay tuned for more adventures!
Monday, 30. July 2007, 22:15:04
Sebastopol, Snoopy, Sonoma County, Peanuts
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New picture album, featuring the town of Santa Rosa, self-proclaimed home of the late Charles Schultz, creator of the famous
Peanuts cartoon series (
Charlie Brown, for those unfortunate souls who live in countries
far far away, without access to our fine American™ Cultural Traditions)
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self-proclaimed, anyway, by the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce. Schultz himself lived in Sebastopol, located one town over. And EVERYONE knows that Snoopy drinks ROOT BEER.)
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red wine, indeed...
Sunday, 29. July 2007, 08:14:58
Free Clinic, layout, Sonoma County, website
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There isn't much to see
so far (my contacts are a little slow getting me things like "content"-- something I'm beginning to suspect is somewhat endemic to this crazy web-building biz...), so this is just the layout (and temporary at best)--
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Sunday, 30. April 2006, 04:24:30
Yahoo mail, Reverend Billy, Sonoma County, Petaluma
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I started out feeling pretty good & energetic, but after several hours of waiting around my apartment for my brother to arrive from Livergulch (while it was nice & sunny alllll afternoon), left me feeling listless & irritable. Worked on Fireworks out of one of the Zero to Hero books; couldn't get the program to save a gradient I had made (my guess is a software bug), but fortunately I got my old copy of Macromedia MX Studio from my brother, and reloaded the whole suite.
It's night, the light in my room is bad, and I'm really not motivated to get any work accomplished right now. Cleared a bunch of crap out of my old Yahoo mailbox (which will be 10 years old sometime next year! Whee!), the longest I've had any sort of address in awhile...
I was hoping to catch Reverend Billy, visiting Petaluma from New York, spreading his "stop shopping" gospel to the Heathen Suburbanites, but I had to wait for my bro. (the county bus system actually goes out of its way to stop at any Walmart in the county. yikes!)
(Reading this posting back strikes me as an awful waste of server space. Oh well...)
Wednesday, 5. April 2006, 19:03:37
css, browsers, page layout, Santa Rosa
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Just moved into a 2 bedroom townhouse in Santa Rosa a couple of days ago. I have an internet connection in the place, but no router, so as soon as I get that hooked up (oh, and a desk...), then... I'll probably never leave home. Anyway, I've got to find a new job to pay for all this, so I'll be keeping this short (so I can cut out of here quickly & run).
Bla Bla Bla...
Worked on some CSS last night, trying to pare down a 3 column layout to the barest essentials. Because the
tag has proven so ineffective as a layout device, I'm back to using tables to block out the desktop real estate. I heard the W3C was trying to deprecate tables as a layout device, but apparently (due to wildly inconsistant implementations in different browsers) they are actually expanding the table specification in CSS.
I have a pretty good 3 column layout that works consistantly in the three major Windows browsers, so I'm going to be working on some sample sites soon.
WIDGETIZE