The Blork Blog

My clothes dryer died two weeks ago. Since then I’ve taken a few loads of clothes to M’s place for laundering, but I’ve also continued to do laundry here. Afterwards, I hang the damp clothes on a rack in the bathroom. This time of year — with the house heated by electric baseboards — [...]

It seems my CSS anxiety has reached intercontinental proportions. Laurent at navire.net weighs into the fray with some interesting perspectives from Paris, including this: “Je regrette aussi qu’il existe une petite clique de méprisants arrogants, des ayatollahs qui jettent l’anathème sur les « pauvres » qui persistent à utiliser des tables.” (“I regret also the [...]

There’s a guy on CBC radio right now pointing out a sobering statistic: While the 9/11 attacks were undeniably criminal, bloody, and vicious, they were not the most horrendous attacks in modern times, as some people like to think. It only seems so because it happened in America, on live television.
I’ve previously written about [...]

Back in the day, it took about an hour to teach someone how to hand-code a website. After a bit of practice, the Web world was their digital oyster. Now, however, you need to be a code-head of the nth degree to swim in these seas.
Witness this site. Last week I did like a good [...]

Trudeau was not without his flaws, but one thing he did well was stand up to the U.S. He referred to being Canadian as “sleeping with an elephant” in that we feel every move the beast down south makes, and we never know when it will roll over and crush us.
Trudeau rankled Nixon (who referred [...]

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AND WENT ON IN SUNLIGHT [...]

About a year ago, Karl sat across from a few of us at La Cabane and sketched out — on a napkin — the theory of web page layout using CSS. This week I finally took his beer-soaked advice and abandoned all tables on the blork blog. What you are looking at now is [...]