Monthly Archives: February 2007

A design pattern for image and figure alignment

Feb 26th – 9am

Dan Cederholm proposed the idea of a figure microformat some time ago and I followed up with a post the microformats discuss list. I’ve continued thinking about it and after throwing down with Tantek over IM, realized that K2’s presentational approach of using alignleft, alignright and center classnames on images just didn’t hold up [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Technology, Web building | Comments (46)

MarsEdit blog editor sold to Red Sweater software

Feb 24th – 11am

I’m a bit late with this news, but since MarsEdit is my blogging tool of choice, I thought that I’d note that Newsgator has decided to sell MarsEdit to Red Sweater Software (Brent Simmons has more, as does Gus Mueller (former MarsEdit developer) ), makers of FlexTime. Here’s to a 2.0 release sooner than later!

By Chris Messina | Posted in Asides, Technology | Comments (1)

Under lock and key

Feb 19th – 10am

Daniel Quinn has written about civilization and how agricultural farming is what has brought us to our current environmental predicament. In his books, particularly Ishmael and My Ishmael, he points out putting the food supply under lock and key (as opposed to being readily available for foraging) is a natural outgrowth of agriculture, given its [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Barcamp, Open source, Personal, Society & economy, The Web Arts | Comments (6)