Stephanie Booth's online ramblings
Interesting and readable article of Anil’s on the transformation of a weblog. I remember hearing a lot about LGF post-9/11, visiting the weblog, and not liking it. I also remember thinking “I can’t recall having this reaction the first times I visited it…” (pre-9/11, that was).
I guess we all undergo change. I’m probably not writing the same kind of things I wrote two years ago—or am I?
At Textism: story of a cat-flap. Thanks for the laugh, Mark!
Certains d’entre vous m’auront déjà pris en flagrant délit d’helvétisme, et encore d’autres auront eu le grand bonheur d’entendre de vive voix (ou presque) mon accent du coin.
Vous le savez, vous l’avez compris – je ne parle pas français, mais une variété citadine de vaudois.
Je vous ai déjà dit deux mots sur Lausanne, la ville dont les habitants s’encoublent, panossent et poutzent, puis rangent leurs commissions dans des cornets Migros. Il y roille parfois, on s’y promène en boguet (enfin, moins maintenant que de mon temps!) et quand on va à la piscine, il faut surtout pas oublier son linge.
Je vous invite donc, afin de parfaire votre culture et d’agrémenter votre journée d’un petit brin d’exotisme, à causer vaudois quelques instants autour d’un bon papet; le lexique du bon parler vaudois vous y aidera.
Je ne connais pas tous les mots du lexique – je suis peut-être trop citadine et cosmopolitaine pour être une vaudoise de sorte. Mais il y en a quand même une bonne cralée qui font partie de mon vocabulaire actif. Ces derniers jours, par exemple: chenit (je n’y crois pas, c’est pas dans le dico!), miquelet (idem), s’encoubler (on n’en parle plus, de celui-là ), crotchon, gouille… Egalement goger, grailler, dézaquer, débattue, déguiller, béder, requinquer, foutimasser, roiller, et j’en passe. Et encore, il y a tous ceux qui me sont familiers mais que je n’utilise pas.
De quoi fleurir votre prose sur vos weblogs respectifs, les copains!
The Eatonweb Edit Your Weblog Listing Drive encourages you to add extra information to your weblog listing at the Eatonweb Portal (one of the best available). If you aren’t listed yet, submit your weblog!
Oh, and I hate these “rate me” thingies so much: 
15 minutes later – on second thoughts, the Eatonweb rating thingy isn’t that bad: it is actually a review system instead of a stupidly quantitative way of rating weblogs. If you have been feeling an urge to review this weblog, now would be the perfect time to click on one of the numbers above, and do it!
Some time ago, I mentionned vkit – a discussion group which has now evolved into a website: MACCAWS. They focus on giving tools and arguments for standards and accessibility, from the business point of view. There is not much on the site yet, but their wiki seems busy.
In particular, check out their BooksList and their ResearchLinks. Lots of great stuff in there already!
Which weblogs inspired and influenced you before you started your own? Which weblogs has yours maybe inspired? Which weblogs have the same “spiritual parents” as yours?
That’s all what BlogTree is about. Register your blog, and check out your family tree.
I wanted to try yesterday, but I started out a bit late in the day. So I did it today.
I got up, spent 10 minutes or so figuring out my rocks for the day, jotted down a few pebbles, and got to work. By the time the evening had come I had studied for three hours and got a whole lot of other things done. And I hadn’t switched on my computer.
Let me know if Pickle Jar Time Management works for you too!
The idea is simple: take a pickle jar (your day), and fill it with rocks. It’s full now, isn’t it? Take a handful of pebbles and add them in too. You might have to shake the jar a little. See how they fit nicely between the rocks? You can fill the jar even more: gravel, sand, water…
Mailing lists public-evangelist and vkit are there to address some of the problems faced by developpers in the real world when trying to “sell” standards-compliance. Read the list presentations on their respective sites for more details about their purpose.
Dive into Mark gives you 30 days to make your weblog more accessible – with practical solutions and concrete examples of when and why accessibility matters. Convincing and well-presented.
Reminder to self: check out blogrolling.com as a possible alternative to freshblogs.
Préparez-vous à perdre un bon quart d’heure à vous amuser avec le TouchGraph GoogleBrowser. L’applet Java met un petit moment à charger, mais cela en vaut vraiment la peine.
Entrez l’adresse de votre site – ou du mien si vous n’avez pas d’inspiration. Vous verrez apparaître les sites “avoisinants”, sur lesquels vous pouvez cliquer à leur tour, pour voir leurs voisins, et ainsi de suite. Explorez!
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