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Here’s what I’ll be doing this summer.

This will sit in the backyard - here’s a view:

The following book kicks ass and has all the information you’ll need to build your own: Build a Kid’s Play Yard

Lauren and the bubble

I updated the BarelyFitz Designs Projects page with an interactive interface written with unobtrusive JavaScript: you can view projects by category or use the search interface.

I noticed the following review of my CSS positioning tutorial on a German website, here it is translated back into English:

CSS offers innumerable possibilities to Web presentations the suitable layout to miss. One of the most frequent problems which thereby again and again crystallized out, is the positioning of elements. Who does not take itself thus the time CSS in detail to understand, on the side of Patrick Fitzgerald a Tutorial offered to that. This places all possible characteristics of positioned elements in 10 steps. Result: Difference to other Tutorials is that the respective characteristic is clarified by means of an application of examples and not only simply the source code is pointed out. Thus above all the differences of the different positioning possibilities are clarified due to the optical representation and more easily understandably (static, relative, absolute, etc.). Not only for beginner a very recommendable small Tutorial. In order to be able to offer to beginners within the range weaving and pool of broadcasting corporations a larger selection, further link references to CSS Tutorials are naturally gladly seen, itself with the positioning of elements.

Because I didn’t want to foul up the namespace in my JavaScript tabber, I attached the tabber object directly to the DOM element it was controlling, then I had to add several “pointers” back and forth between the object and various DOM elements so they could get to each other without relying on any variables. When you look at it like this, it seems rather complicated:

I wonder if there are any issues with “memory leaks” due to IE’s faulty garbage collection… let me know if you notice anything.

Update: Hold the presses, I found a few more links. Some of these pointers are not used except when creating new elements to add into the DOM, so I can probably just switch those to use local variables. It shouldn’t matter, but with IE’s faulty garbage collection, who knows if it might cause problems.

Update:oh good god, the squiggly lines have taken over!

This store has some funny messages on its baby t-shirts:

A Change is Coming
Daddy Needs a Nap
Designated Driver
Did I Get Any On You
Does This Diaper Make My Butt Look Big
I Suck
Milk Junkie
Mommy Needs a Drink
Mommy Needs a Nap
Oops, I Crapped My Pants
Pull My Finger
Refuse to Snooze
Show Me Your Boobies
Thanks for the Mammaries
You Gonna’ Eat That?

I especially liked Oops, I Crapped My Pants.

Via Parent Hacks.

I finally upgrated WordPress, and since it handles comment spam so much better I activated comments again on this blog.

Unfortunately, I also had to ditch my old template, so until I get a chance to redesign the site you’ll be stuck looking at the default WordPress template.

To make up for this disgrace, here’s a funny graphic.

p.s. I love the new AJAX category/tag selector in WordPress 2!