You may or may not notice that all of the entry titles on the site have been updated. Instead of standard HTML, they're now rendered in Flash. Yep, every time I make a new post, I open up Flash, edit a title object, and save it as a SWF. Oh, and I do it three times - one for each style. No I don't. I stumbled across a technique this afternoon called Inman Flash Replacement. You may have seen it used over at ESPN.com. You'll probably see it at more sites in the future. What it boils down to is an ingenious way to replace text on a page with a stylized version, while leaving the semantic structure of the page ...
MovableType, the software that powers my weblog, announced new licensing terms for the new release (3.0 - I'm running 2.6.5). Bottom line, it's no longer free. Which sucks. I never bothered to upgrade to 2.6.5, so for the time being, I have less than no intention of upgrading to 3.0. I'm not sure why they did that. From the responses I've been reading around the web, they (Six Apart, the developers) instantly went from one of the most popular web log tools to public enemy #1. There's a pretty substantial community of developers who create plugins for MovableType. I'm curious to see how they feel about this - do they bolt for another platform, or stick it out? There's a ...
No, not that horrible movie starring James Spader wanna-be Arye Gross. We took a poke at a few more condos last night. Both were in the same building, a converted warehouse in the Brady Street area. The first was reasonably priced, and it was a loft. Bottom floor had a kitchen, half-bath, and a pretty sizable living area. A pretty steep set of stairs led up to the loft space: 1 bedroom, 1 full bath, and another bedroom that was more realistically an office. Judy was a little freaked out because there were no doors anywhere (except the bathrooms), and the stairs. The deciding blow(s) were that there wasn't an in-unit laundry, and there ...