Unique Blog Designs - Or Broken Blog Designs?

Today I was listening to the first of two podcasts in which John Chow hosted the Shoemoney Show. One of his guests was Nate Whitehill from Unique Blog Designs. Nate is known for redesigning both Chow and Shoemoney's blogs. Although his work is unquestionably great, I was a bit shocked to discover that many of his designs render horribly in IE6 (see pics below). Based on stats from my own sites, the majority of my visitors are still using IE6. Given the $750 price tag Nate charges for a new skin, I would expect the design to be cross-browser compatible.

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Bullet for My Valentine

Bullet for My Valentine fricken rocks!!! I bought their cd this afternoon titled The Poison.It is easily the best CD I've purchased in a very long time.

I first discovered Bullet for My Valentine yesterday while surfing YouTube. Check 'em out!

Smoley, IRB Approval, Data Collection, ASP.NET

It's been too long since my last post. Hmmm...that's beginning to sound like this site's mantra. Things have been busy...travel during the holidays...a sick child...IRB "exemption" granted from my employer...a sick Child...thesis data collection...Skype...and so the story goes.

I got a new ASP book in November, but haven't had time to delve into it. It's ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashedby Stephen Walther. It might become more of a reference book rather than a cover-to-cover read, being it's 1963 pages. Nonetheless, the first time I cracked it open I learned something new (i.e., cross-page postbacks).

Anyway, that's it for now. My New Year's resolution (albeit almost a month late), will be to blog at least once a week.

Cheers,

Terry

ASP, Ear Infections, Hives, and IRB

Since my last post I have made decent progress on my ASP site. I figured out how to do cross-page posting, send form data to a database, create master pages, and a handful of other tricks. I still haven't launched my "baby," but I'm getting very close.

During Thanksgiving our son had a double ear infection. As if that wasn't bad enough, he later developed hives as a result of the antibiotics he was on (resulting in a 4 a.m. visit to the ER). All is well now, and our sleep schedules are returning to normal.

So anyway, I've been scrambling to collect consent forms for my thesis (which has been seven years in the making). Although/because I have IRB approval through my university...I didn't bother to also secure IRB approval through my employer. I discovered today that I will also need IRB approval through my employer. Although I'm tempted to launch into a 10 page diatribe, I'll spare you the pain (mostly because my lunch is over and I don't have time).

~ Failure is typically not the result of one poor choice, rather it's an accumulation of many poor choices.