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Friday, October 29 1999

New article on ahref.com: Teaching Web Development

"Teaching Web Development" - maybe not the best of headlines. "Teaching Web Design"? "Nudging the Newbies?" Anyway, it's an article by Amy Poe (professional tech instructor) about how to teach people who haven't learned already how to build/design web sites and web pages. (How's this for a headline: "Web Building 101 101"?)

It's supposed to remind experienced web folks about the things they (we) take for granted but new developers won't, like that images are external files, and not parts of HTML documents. It took a little doing to make it not seem like a Web 101/basic skills article; I like to think most of the ahref.com audience already is past that.

salon.com: Good Star Trek article; bad headline

Front/home page article headline: "The End of 'Star Trek'." Inside headline, when you get to the article: "The trouble with 'Trek'." Pictures of a crying Vulcan (probably Spock). More appropriate headline: "I Don't Like the New Star Trek Series and I Wish They'd Give the Franchise to Someone Who Cares About NCC-1701 As Much As I Do."

Robert Wilonsky gives a fairly (overly) long article about declining viewership of Star Trek movies and TV shows, info on some of the politics behind the scenes, and gets to talk to Leonard Nimoy. He's right when he says what made the original series great was the interplay of personalities between the three main characters. He's wrong when he says the new series don't have enough of a human/personal element; it can just be harder to connect to each personality when you're dealing with what are really ensemble-cast shows.

Saturday, October 2 1999

These pages never die...

I'm still getting email about personal web pages I did years ago (which, BTW, are all archived at <http://1998.piou.org/>). Each year, I get queries about when the Taste of DC is because of the pictures I have up about that; I did a recent search for Taste of DC at metacrawler, and it looks like my page turns up as number seven.

I also got a question this week from someone doing a research paper on the National Organization of Women rally back in 1995, cause I went to and took a bunch of pictures at that.

I really ought to get a digital camera and start taking pictures again...

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