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Sunday, 28 May 2000
Kat's finally feeling better after a week of illness... which is why it took so long to post the notice about her graduation and update the text related to her.
Sunday, 21 May 2000
Kat graduated from her midwifery program today. She is now officially a midwife!
Saturday, 20 May 2000
CSS:TDG will be entering a second print run soon, thanks to strong sales. It's had an Amazon.com sales ranking as high as 113, and there are rumors that it went higher when we weren't looking. On a related note, the recently published Amazon.com editorial review of CSS:TDG is very kind indeed. Here are a few quotes: "...enthusiasm for [CSS] spills out of the pages, making a strong case for even the most skeptical reader to give CSS a whirl and count on its future... attention to both detail and architecture helps readers build a well-rounded knowledge of CSS... This fine guide delivers on its promise as an indispensable tool for CSS coders."
Friday, 19 May 2000
We're back from Europe. Our time there was both wonderful and productive, but the actual travels to and from Europe were not wonderful, nor even vaguely pleasant. We're starting to suspect that we carry some kind of combined travel and weather curse. (But we're still not Rain Gods.)
Wednesday, 3 May 2000
Eric says: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide has been published and is available. I have held a copy in my hands (I got two last night via Federal Express); somehow I expected it to be bigger. I suppose that's probably an effect of the book's psychological significance. Preorders, as of the end of April, totaled 6,307. ...wow.
Thursday, 13 April 2000
Kat is back in Cleveland! Eric could be happier, maybe, but he isn't really sure how. Other good things happening: orders for CSS:TDG have already passed 5,200 copies, and the book won't be available until the beginning of May. Looks like we might have a winner on our hands, folks...
Tuesday, 28 March 2000
Now it's just silly. CSS:TDG hit an Amazon.com sales ranking of 3,923 today, depsite having fallen from 8,423 to 26000-plus in just a few hours, and then rebounding to almost 7,000 in a few more hours. We don't know what the heck is going on, but it's kind of morbidly fun to track the numbers anyway.
Sunday, 26 March 2000
At one point today, CSS:TDG hit an Amazon.com sales ranking of 8,423. This appears to confirm the suspicion that these rankings are simply randomly generated numbers.
Saturday, 18 March 2000
Eric has officially left CWRU, which means that he's technically unemployed until Monday, when he starts work with a firm known as The OPAL Group. He's joining a start-up division, which means it has all the advantages of an ordinary start-up with the established-company luxury of having a list of clients already waiting; literally, the best of both worlds. CSS:TDG continues to move up the Amazon.com sales rankings, at one point reaching 51,270. (I've heard that the book has already sold well over 2,000 copies-- and it hasn't even gone to the printers yet!)
Thursday, 16 March 2000
From Eric: One day to go... and in other news, CSS:TDG currently has an Amazon.com sales ranking of 70,931. I have no idea what caused it to jump so far, but am I arguing?
Tuesday, 7 March 2000
Never content with one major turning point at a time, Eric recently decided to leave CWRU to take a senior position with a Cleveland-area information technology firm. More details will be made available after his last day of work at CWRU, which will be Friday, 17 March 2000. In the meantime, today's Amazon.com sales ranking of CSS:TDG is 727,582. Woo! Smokin'!
Thursday, 2 March 2000
Well, the fish is out of the net now! O'Reilly & Associates has officially announced the upcoming publication of Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide. There are also listings at Borders, Barnes & Noble, Fatbrain.com, and Amazon.com; the Amazon.com sales ranking as of today is really funny: 729,716. That's up from its earlier ranking of 729,769!
Sunday, 20 February 2000
A note from Eric: I've rearranged [the home page] a bit in order to make it more legible in Navigator 4.x. The earlier display problems were, so far as I can tell, due to the fact that Nav4's rendering engine is as mind-bendingly awful as one could put in an officially released browser and not actually be thrown in jail for it. Even now, the display in Navigator is less than optimal, but at least you can read all of the text. My only other option was to use some sort of browser detection script to customize the content, and I'm just not willing to do that.
Saturday, 12 February 2000
Eric is back from one of his pseudo-yearly trips to California, where he got a lot of things done and had some very interesting meetings with a number of people. (No, they weren't venture capitalists.) Many of these people were very generous with the freebies, so Eric's closet now has a few more T-shirts (as if he needed them) and his bookshelf is a little bit richer. He also stopped by Ragged Point again, and the food there is as good as ever. All hail Roger!
Thursday, 3 February 2000
Separation stinks. Then again, so does being sick (sometimes literally).
Tuesday, 25 January 2000
Time marches on, as does progress... Eric has reached yet another milestone in his major project, and hopes to be able to talk about it publicly Real Soon Now. It isn't that it's a secret, exactly, but it is something which he doesn't want to talk about until it's completely finished. Stay tuned. Kat has managed to survive her intensive courses, and is even now preparing for the rigors of integration...
Thursday, 6 January 2000
Some of you may have seen the CWRU Y2K parody page during the 33 hours it was the actual university home page; if not, go check it out. Here's the amazing part-- apparently we executed the parody so skillfully that it was mistaken by some people for an actual Y2K glitch! Among them: Wired News and the Washington Post. For more information, feel free to read the official press release from CWRU.
Thursday, 30 December 1999
We've recently returned from two weeks in California, Baja, and visiting Eric's parents-- and boy, do we need a vacation. Nevertheless, we're going ahead with a New Year's Eve party here at the ranch, featuring the usual motley assortment of friends indulging in general silliness. In other news, Webmonkey has republished one of Eric's old articles. Imagine his surprise when he first heard about it from a co-worker.
Monday, 6 December 1999
It's alive!!! Yes, after months of working to establish a location for the site, and a few days assembling the data, our Web site is finally up, running, and ready to be announced to the world at large. Our e-mail addresses also work, so you can use them to get in touch with us for as long as this site persists. Joy.