Brian Fitzgerald

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CNet reporters' roundtable ‘cast discusses Jobs’ role at Apple.

The New York Times is sporting a new look–and it’s beautiful. They, like CNN last week, have gone wide (970pixels by my measurement) and have also centered (which I really can’t figure out why more big sites don’t do–everybody else does).

CSS Stylesheet on one of Microsoft’s sites contains styles such as “StupidIEWidthHack”, “StupidIEMarginHack” and “fix for the IE 1px-ooff margin error”.

Here’s a photo an astronaut on the space station took of this morning’s total solar eclipse.

Ruby on Rails 1.1 is out and getting great reviews with it's built in AJAX support and much-improved active record feature. Got to get back on track with learning it.

Ruby on Rails 1.1: Web 2.0 on Rocket Fuel (web2.wsj2.com)

That's right! 64 GB!! Only $5,000. Consider an entire bootable  drive that would fit in your pocket. Backup your drive to it. Put your tunes on it. 'Course you can get a couple times that amount memory for one to two hundred dollars.

BUSlink's 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive PRO 2 Series - Engadget

Adobe under construction | Newsmakers | CNET News.com

 World of Warcraft down all day, Blizzard has no ETA

A beautifully rendered 3d movie of Optimus Prime transforming.

Wired takes a walk down the memory lane of Apple’s 30 years of Operating System glory. Ah, Multifinder…

This is awesome. Somebody took the time to go through the cloud of web 2.0 sites available, categorize them and then rank and award them. If you are looking for inspiration for a site you are working on, look no further.

This looks like a good tutorial on writing it right.

Goowy provides an email and IM interface along with online storage. Great interface.

Interviewer: "Do you have an iPod?"

Balmer: "No, I do not. Nor do my children. My children--in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."

 The Sleeping Giant Goes on the Offensive - April 3, 2006

Gearlog : Mac Os X 10.5 Likely To Have Virtualization, Windows Support

Flock keeps getting better and better. Besides already having one of the best browser interfaces, the latest builds of Flock have added a choice when ‘starring’ a site of sharing with everyone (via the social bookmarker of your selection) or only between your computers. In addition, in just creating this post, I see that they are starting to do some heavy refacing of the blogging window. If you aren’t on Flock, you’re missing out!!

They are finally coming…

This killer Coldfusion-based flash application provides a fullscreen (within your browser window) visualization of current news.

I know winter is over, but you’ve done this: You want to lounge around with your laptop and cover up with a blanket. Problem is that you either need to keep the blanket below your arms to use your computer or do some weird thneed-like thing with it to keep it between your arms and out of the way. What if your blanket had sleeves? The Slanket does!

Chax adds needed features to iChat like tabs and growl support.

CNN has a fantastic new layout that is standards-compliant, wide and beautiful. The new site is 980 pixels wide. WooHoo. I’m for anything that aids in stretching web users expectations of what a site is. Monitors are wider, let’s use them.

This awesome umbrella was in this month’s WIRED mag. It receives radio signals that tell it what the chance of rain that day is, then blinks it’s blue handle to communicate that you to you. See the umbrella blinking madly near the door on the way out? Better take it with you!

Think secret reports locations of the many new Apple Stores expected this year and Omaha’s Village Point mall is on the list.

Digital Web Magazine reviews “CSS Mastery”