Sarah Doherty

Always thinking. Always dreaming.

  1. Still Funny

  2. My New Friend



  3. Yay! New Hard Drive!

  4. Water Rat

    I have become a water rat as of lately — swimming every night for about 30-45 minutes. I’m really loving it and it feels great to get back into the swimming groove.

  5. Loving My New Dock Look (New Icons!)

    I spent some time simplifying my dock and choosing some new, simplified icons and I really like how this looks.  Despite being a bit of a Mac fan, most of the products I use nowadays are Google based – I really don’t know how I could live without Gmail, GCal and GReader.

  6. CSS Naked Day 2008

    Today my site is participating in CSS Naked Day.  You can see this by visiting my site (today on 4/9/08) or the image below:

     

    Taken from http://naked.dustindiaz.com/:

    Where did my Design go?

    The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your <body>.

    How to participate

    Fill out the naked day signup form, then your website will be included in the official list within the next hour.

    Then on April 9th, simply remove all CSS from your website, stripping it entirely of its design.

    (Optional): Insert the following snippet of markup at the top of your page on the day of.

    <h3>What happened to the design?</h3>
<p>To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the
<a href="http://naked.dustindiaz.com" title="Web Standards Naked Day Host Website">
Annual CSS Naked Day</a> website for more information.</p>
This option for those who feel a need to give their visitors a reference as to what's going on. This is not about getting traffic or making money. There are no ads on this site, nor will there ever be. This is about you, the people; getting naked.

    When is it again?

    A few folks were curious about the date of CSS Naked Day. Here’s a few reasons why it’s on April 9th this year.

    • The date should always be on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday (most highly trafficked days)
    • It should be near the first week of April
    • It should never be on April 1st (international prank day)
    • There should be at least five days ahead of time before the announcement

     

  7. Del.icio.us Bookmarks for April 3rd through April 6th

  8. Looks Like WaMu’s Kiosk Isn’t Working Too Well



  9. Advanced Web Development Mailing Lists

    My fiancé, Ryan works web development engineer over at Mozilla. Prior to this he worked at Yahoo! (no he didn’t get laid off).  One of the things he says that he misses most about Yahoo! (besides the free coffee) is the internal web development mailing lists.  I spent some time looking around for great, public advanced web development mailing lists and came up with the following.

    • Babble List (http://www.babblelist.com/)
      Geared to advanced Web Design issues, and includes a lively exchange of information, resources, theories and practices of designers and developers. 
    • Apple Web-Dev Mailing List (http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/web-dev) 
      The web-development mailing list is a forum where both client-side and server-side developers can discuss their disciplines. It’s the perfect place to look if you’re in need of CSS layout tips, JavaScript code review, help using PHP and Apache, or have any other questions related to web development on the Mac. 
    • XHTML-L (http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/XHTML-L/)
      This forum is here for web developers, web designers, webmasters, document managers, tool builders, integrators, and anyone else with an interest in XHTML to discuss strategies and tactics for making XHTML work.
    • The W3C DOM Mailing List (http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/list.html)
      This list studies the JavaScript implementation of the W3C DOM in the various browsers. It has a strongly practical bend. Discussion of the standards is not forbidden, but the most important topic should be how the standards turn out to work in practice.
    • CSS Discuss Mailing List (http://www.css-discuss.org/)
      Css-Discuss is a mailing list devoted to talking about CSS and ways to use it in the real world; in other words, practical uses and applications. 
    • Lists.evolt.org (http://lists.evolt.org/)
      Evolt.org hosts 4 mailing lists for the web development community, the most relevant being thelist, evolt.org’s primary discussion list for designers, developers, and web managers working to make the web a better place for all.

    Of course if you have others that you subscribe to please share.  Maybe this could even turn into a repository for some great lists.

  10. New Piggy Bank: So Cute!



  11. Holly, My Velveteen Rabbit

    I’ve been having a lot of fun as of lately playing around with the macro option on my digital.  It’s not a fancy SLR camera at all (Canon PowerShot SD600) but it does a great job of taking captivating photos. The power of macro has allowed me to alter my visual perception of an item.  I thought it would be interesting to take some photos of Holly who has been my rag doll since birth.  

    I think every child has some attachment to a stuffed animal, blanket or toy.  These objects normally get so tattered and worn that it is either trashed or replaced.  Somehow Holly has made it past all this.  Supposedly I got Holly as a gift when I was born.  I have no idea why I became so attached to her – looking at the photos I took reveals how hideous of a doll she really is.  

    Despite her appearance I found her beautiful. Holly came and experienced everything with me.  As a child I was obsessed with band-aids so I always made sure Holly had a few boo-boo’s until my mom got upset with the amount of wasted band-aids.  In elementary school my mom had bought a gorgeous cross necklace for me – I too decided, that Holly should wear a religious pendant around her neck. And embarrassingly enough she came to college with me as a form of academic motivation and solace for being out on my own. 

    As a child I believed that Holly was the Velveteen Rabbit and would one day become real if I loved her enough. By now, I realize this isn’t true.  Despite living a world where we drop our childhood treasures in exchange for “adulthood” and the notion of being “cool”, I have held onto Holly.  To me she is not a doll, but my childhood history.  And most of all she holds with the countless hours my grandma (now deceased) and mother’s spent repairing her tattered “skin”.  And I hope one day I can share her with my children and pass down this story.

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    You can view the rest of the Flickr set here.

  12. TripIt

    I want to get into a better habit of blogging about websites or applications that I find useful.  A few days ago I was reading a blog that had mentioned Tripit and the idea sort of intrigued me, especially the idea to have a central location to find all trip information.  Right now when I get a confirmed flight/hotel/car itinerary for travel I star it in my Gmail inbox to allow me to find it easily.  Tripit has the ability to mash everything together into one itinerary which I really liked.

    The social aspect of Tripit confused me a bit – wouldn’t you already know if colleagues were going on the same trip as you?  I think a better feature would be to allow your user account to search our to other people (strangers included!) and it would be a great way to meet new people on a trip.

    Overall I’m quite happy with this type of organization and would encourage anyone else to check it out.

  13. Winnie the Pooh Lamp



    I bought a classic pooh lamp for my desk at Target this past weekend. Although you may think it’s child-ish, its quite elegant and makes me smile.

  14. Frosted Mini Wheats

    I really like the way this picture came out. Zooming in on something as simple as cereal can show so much detail and transform it into an art form.

  15. Beautiful Palm Trees