Third Annual CSS Naked Day

Happy CSS Naked Day! Dustin Diaz started this in 2006 as a way to promote web standards.

“In the spirit of promoting Web Standards along with good semantic markup and proper hierarchy structures, [today] will be a day of nakedness for all webmasters to remove their style sheets from their website for one day. …The fact of the matter is, if you’re writing good solid markup to begin with, it shouldn’t be all that bad anyway.”
– Dustin Diaz, First Annual Naked Day

It was a good idea then, and it’s a good idea now. If you’ve got a site, why not turn off the styles for a day and join in the fun?

Note: If you’re still seeing my design, hit “refresh” in your browser to strip the styles out.

Zoe is Ten Months Old

Dear Zoe,
Between getting sick and everything that happened around Christmas, this was one of your busiest months ever. So much so, that I’m only just now getting around to writing your December newsletter, even though it’s nearly time to start on the January one. Still, I hate it when people posts excuses instead of just posting, so let’s get down to business!

Zoe's Holiday Outfit

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Happy Talk like a Pirate Day!

Pirate Flag

In honor of Talk like a Pirate Day, take some time to read some excellent (and some horrible) pirate jokes over at PirateJokes.net, run by my good friend Cap’n Karakas. Here’s one of my favorites:

A pirate and his parrot, were adrift in a lifeboat following a dramatic escape from a valiant battle. While rummaging through the boat’s provisions, the pirate stumbled across an old lamp. Secretly hoping that a Genie would appear, he rubbed the lamp vigorously. To the amazement of the castaways, a Genie came forth. This particular Genie, however, stated that he could only deliver one wish, not the standard three. Without giving any thought to the matter the pirate blurted out, “Make the entire ocean into rum!” The Genie clapped his hands with a deafening crash, and immediately the entire sea turned into the finest rum ever sampled by mortals. Simultaneously, the Genie vanished. Only the gentle lapping of rum on the hull broke the stillness as the two considered their circumstances

The parrot looked disgustedly at the pirate and after a tension-filled moment spoke: “Now yee’ve done it!! Now we’re goon to have to pee in the boat!”

CSS Naked Day ’07

It’s that time of year again when standards-conscious web designers shed their stylesheets and let their sites run around, exposing their raw markup to the world to promote web standards. The idea is that a standards-based site will be marked up semantically enough that even without the stylesheets, it’s still usable, if not pretty. I can attest to the amount of time that we developers put into how a site will look without styles, even though few if any people will see it that way. To learn more, visit CSS Naked Day.

Edit: Okay, so I’m 24 hours off. For some reason, I thought today was the 5th of April, but it was actually yesterday. *sigh* Restoring the styles now.

Steak and BJ Day

Annie was unimpressed when I mentioned this holiday to her last year, and given the tiny parasite adorable baby girl she’s caring for 24-hours-a-day right now, this year will probably be no different, but here’s a reminder for the rest of you:

March 14th is Steak and Blowjob Day.