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It’s a small web after all

Elliot Lee — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:28:48 +0000

I was reading my email when I got a marketing email that mentioned iSubmitWeb. So I went to their site and clicked to see their Case Study. From there I went to their case study’s site, usabasketgifts.com. Now in the mood to think about SEO, and remembering something I once typed about one of my websites, I search for the #1 * according to google in, you guessed it, Google. This brought up 13 million results, the first ones of which were exactly what I had in mind. I clicked the first result, a site called “over my med body” at grahamazon.com. The site said: ’she’s the #1 Danah according to Google’, so I went to Google’s results page for Danah. From the first result I went to her blog, which has a short blub about her and a link to her school’s site, SIMS at UC Berkeley. On the right menu bar (“highlights”), it said “Mitch Kapor speaks at SIMS” as the first entry. The name was familiar, so I clicked it and read about Mr. Kapor. It said he is “President of the Open Source Applications Foundation”, so I went to their site. Now I recognized this as the place where my cousin Ted Leung works. I went to “People”, then scrolled down to “Ted Leung – Development” where I found a link to his blog, a place that I’ve also linked to in my blog sidebar.

The way things are connected astounds me.

Last Thursday of Classes

Elliot Lee — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:44:14 +0000

Back to our night-time MM. It’s nice how things seemed to work out today. As I mentioned earlier, I got up a little early and did a little work for EE 106. I also went to EVK for brunch. In EE 106, our robot went fairly crazy and by the end our photoresistors just didn’t seem to work anymore. But at least we got through the maze somehow, though with some hiccups. I had my last math discussion, but R. Golovko will be having a review session on the 12th that I’ll probably attend. Then I worked some online and read Ted’s blog, which has inspired me to write about how I got into computers. Shelby IMed me reminding me about the TCF Christmas Party, which I’d completely forgotten about…

At 6:30 pm I went to a “free webspace” event put on by some HTAs (Housing Technology Assistants). It struck me just how unknowledgeable these people are. The girl doing the presentation only looked at this stuff 2 weeks ago. She doesn’t have a website. The other HTA there doesn’t have a website. The RA who suggested the event doesn’t have a website. These people know the general idea, but they have no idea how the real thing works and what’s really involved with buliding a real website. And there’s more than just technical stuff to it.

I went to the TCF Party with Shelby. We were lost, trying to find SLH (Stauffer Lecture Hall, I think it ended up being). Apparently it looks like a street on the map, but it’s not the same as SCI or ZHS. USC really has quite a lot of buildings, and it takes some careful looking at the map to see where you’re going. And there are a lot of resources and research centers open for use.

The Jimmy Eat World concert was alright, but I didn’t go. Jon tells me it wasn’t very good, definitely not as good as the CDs. So based on their performance in concert, they’re no longer his favorite band. To be honest I’ve never really heard of them actually until now. From the TCF party, I walked with Johnny and Jon around campus a bit, and we thought we walked past the band members of Jimmy Eat World and then we also walked with some other students we knew. We convinced Johnny to come work on his paper in Jon’s room instead of Leavey Library.

Back in the dorm a few hours later, my roommate was having a conversation with Art in the restroom, and then it moved to our room. I like to think I participated in the conversation. Overall pretty typical topics. But he mentioned talk radio, listening to it before going to sleep. Something I used to do. AM 640. This went on until 2:45 pm, and now we’ll probably finally go to sleep soon.

Sitenote: Who is Seeley G. Mudd?
There’s a Seeley G. Mudd building on campus at USC, and there’s a Seeley G. Mudd Building of Geophysics and Planetary Science on the Caltech campus, and there’s even a Seeley G. Mudd Library at Princeton. A quick search didn’t return anything about the actual person. Is this all the same person, and if so, who is this guy?

Simulate Firefox Error Pages

Elliot Lee — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:42:28 +0000

I decided to have some fun. What do you think?

CSS Tutorial Tip

Elliot Lee — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:55:19 +0000

I wasn’t really clear on what the pound (#) and greater than (>) symbols meant in CSS code. From nemesis1:

Child Combinator

The child combinator is the greater-than symbol or right angle bracket (>).
Using it to combine two simple selectors means that elements matching the second
simple selector should be selected when they are immediate children of an element
matching the first.

Let’s take a look at some examples using the child combinator:

div.sidebar > p

Select any paragraph that is an immediate child of a div with a class
of "sidebar".

This selector would match only the first paragraph in this markup:

This is a paragraph

This
is another paragraph.

#maincontent blockquote > p:first-child:first-line

Select the first line of any paragraph that is the first child of a block
quote, which itself is the descendant of any element with the ID "maincontent".

This selector would match the first line of the first paragraph in this markup:

This
is a paragraph.

This is another
paragraph.