How do people learn HTML these days? Online tutorials? Hacking away at an editor that came on their machine? A coworker asked to borrow the HTML for Dummies book on my desk at work left behind by my predecessor, and I also supplied her with my personal copy of HTML 4 for the World Wide Web 4th ed Visual QuickStart Guide, which is quite an excellent book. I've been using GoLive 4/5 and PageMill 3 for so long (and before that, Claris HomePage 3 and a version of FrontPage (bleh)) along with BBEdit (and before that SimpleText) that I'm not sure where I got started. I remember learning from somewhere online (NCSA?) and getting a copy of Special Edition: Using HTML about 5 years ago. I don't remember what edition, but I noticed today that they're up to the 6th. Maybe it is time to add an HTML bookshelf to the Ivory Tower?
Spent some time over the last week at work or so trying to get my 20" Dell monitor to look halfway decent at 1280 x 1024. It is kinda old and rather dingy/dim compared to the slightly more recent vintage ViewSonics that the print people have. I've seen how OS X will look with the Quartz engine and I'm impressed. It'll be nice to have an even-clearer look at things on the iMac, which is already pretty sharp.
Reading a couple of books these days: The Playful World: How Technology Is Transforming Our Imagination and The Cluetrain Manifesto. The first I'm only halfway though and it reads like a simplified Wired article. Cluetrain is interesting, but since I'm not in "business" (I'm at a nonprofit), some of it isn't relevant to my immediate experiences. Since I'm reading "internet" sorts of stuff right now, maybe it is time to go back and reread Being Digital to see how accurate it is. I reread Microserfs last fall and was struck with how mainstream many of the topics have become.
Note to self: When you order stuff online, make sure you pay extra and get trackable shipping.
